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suppose now that the JLRappahannock News has acquired a new reporter with such impressive credentials, every muttering in the county will take on greater prominence. The banner headlines afforded Ron Frazier’s “excoriating attack” on a respected and hard-working fellow citizen (and, incidentally, also a public servant) bordered on sensationalism totally foreign to what we expect from our community newspaper.
Mr. Frazier’s characterization of Ms. Silver as having had “her mind polluted” by anyone is as nonsensical as it is offensive. Neither Mr. Horrock, nor the newspaper, did either a favor by giving such extraordinary prominence to the gratuitous and insulting remarks of this long-time political thorn in the side of the county.
By most accounts (except Mr. Frazier’s) the application in question was never the “focus of the meeting” at the library. Mr. Horrock should have checked his facts more carefully. It wouldn’t take a lot of research. He had only to read his own article.
The grant request was mentioned in introductory remarks at the library meeting, but in no detail. It was by no means the “focus” of the meeting. It was not publicly distributed and very few people knew of the specific contents of the document at that tune. That the details wer<wiot discussed at the meeting’s attested to by Mr. Horrock’s own article, which quotes Mr. Frazier saying that he got a copy “after the meeting.” So, when Mr. Frazier—with great indignation—told the board that the “focus of the meeting concerned the grant proposal submitted by our very own grant writer and Headwaters’ for
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