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By Valerie Walker Rappahannock News Staff Writer All Rappahannock County schools are fully accredited as a result of their SOL scores, according to Superintendent Robert Chappell. Chappell shared the news at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting in the band room at the high school. “We are very proud. We try to exceed the minimum expectations of the state,” said Chappell noting the school system’s commitment to making success a constant. Chappell said that there would be more news coming in the future, including a new plan to address the goals of No Child Left Behind. The full results of the SOL tests are available online at the Virginia State Department of Education’s web site (http://www. pen.kl2.va.us/VDOE/src/accredfinal-04.xls). The schools showed See SCHOOLS, Page A9
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recorded Two conservation easements recorded on Nov. 4 provide the first such protection in the Aaron Mountain neighborhood of Rappahannock County. Both are in the Route 622 corridor. Helen and Emerson Williams have protected their 54-acre “Fern Springs Farm.” Nearby, Akin Davis has merged his three tax parcels into a 51-acre tract that can never be redivided. Countywide, 17,307 acres— 12.7 percent of all privatelyowned land in Rappahannock—are now protected by conservation easements.
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