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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock County has become an island of rural life in a sea of development as the phenomenal growth of the Washington metropolitan area has swept past it to West Virginia and Pennsylvania turning some neighboring counties into overcrowded, car-clogged disaster zones.
Though the pressure of Washington expansion has been a constant since the end of World War II, the combination of the war on terrorism and the aging of the babyboomer generation created an outmigration in the past two years unrivaled since the Vietnam War.
In a range of public meetings and private interviews over the past several months, Rappahannock County leaders and members of environmental and planning groups have expressed growing concern about how to maintain the county's rural ambiance and stable lifestyle.
Phil Irwin, who came to Rappahannock County in 1961,
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