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Memory Lane
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former Carol Settle of Flint Hill. He is an official in the Skyline Ski Area located in Rappahannock.
25 YEARS AGO
September 11, 1980
Harassment by rowdy idlers in Sperryville has led the Rappahannock supervisors to consider the countys first anti-loitering laws, scheduled for public hearing on October 6. Several weeks ago, the supervisors asked commonwealth attorney Douglas Baumgardner to draw up a loitering ordinance. In a letter to the board read at Thursday’s meeting by chairman E.P. Luke, Baumgardner noted that loitering legislation can be attacked on grounds that it is unconstitutionally vague. He emphasized, however, that Virginia’s General Assembly has given counties authority to enact such ordinances. Baumgardnersaid that he tried to make . Rappahannock’s loitering laws as specific as possible, noting that the proposed ordinance is designed to give local law enforcement officials a tool to combat the “very serious situation” in Sperryville. The ordinance as drafted by the commonwealth’s attorney prohibits loitering in public buildings, streets and places, including quasipublic areas in front or adjacent to commercial establishments... “Do you think you can enforce that?” Luke asked Sheriff W. A. Buntin after reading the draft ordinance aloud. “We can enforce part of it,” Buntin replied. “I think it will help. We have a big problem in Sperryville and Flint Hill. It’s really terrible in Sperrville,” he said, reporting that idylers shout obscene language, block traffic and throw rocks, gravel and bottles at passing
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