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Our View
Something new
This week’s issue of the Rappahannock News debuts
a new feature - A Day Away - which is planned to
run monthly. While many delight in celebrating Valentine’s Day in February, it is also the month where we remember our founding fathers. Virginia boasts a number of presidents and it turns out that the Piedmont Region was home to several of them.
Each month another trip will be featured to destinations fairly close to home but which will offer readers a chance to spent a day away exploring the wonderful environs that complement Rappahannock County. '
Also new this issue is Point-Counterpoint where two of Rappahannock’s residents have pitted their opinions against each other in a friendly forum.
Carla Theodore and Demaris Miller will be addressing three questions in the coming weeks with a focus on what kind of economy would best serve the greatest number of people.
It’s an experiment.
Both of them agreed and wanted to participate and both agreed on the three questions. As far as their replies, they will be reading each other’s comments for the first time as will those of you who choose to tune in.
Let’s see how it goes. Let the editor know at asherman@timespapers.com.
Also new this week is a column by Charlene JamesDuguid. She is the force behind the Rappahannock Repertory Theatre that will be presenting a spring production at The Schoolhouse in Sperryville. This Saturday she’s got a fellow coming to show her young actors and actresses how best to “duel” on stage. Her enthusiasm is contagious.
We hadn’t heard from our intrepid freelancer Don Audette but he’s surfaced just in time to provide a nostalgic look at a certain bridge that holds a lot of memories for Rappahannock residents.
Keep pushing
Fauquier County’s Del. C. L. “Clay” Athey is disheartened
that the bills he patroned in the General
Assembly that would have leveled the playing field between Dominion Virginia Power and the citizens of Virginia affected by its projects — like those in the way of the proposed 500kV power line — had failed.
Tb add insult to injury, the Electric Re-regulation bill favored by Dominion, since it will diminish the authority of the State Corporation Commission over electricity rates — easily passed the House.
Following Athey s bills through the legislative process is informative, if disappointing. His bills in the Commerce and Labor Committee requiring under grounding of power lines and addressing alternatives to the line were combined into one bill, which then died on the House floor.
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