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It has never ceased to amaze

me to what extent one will go to achieve their own agenda. There are persons who reside on Piedmont Avenue who have their own personal agendas.

Town of Washington leaders are not going to deny that residents who reside on Piedmont Avenue who have town water should have connection to town sewer. It is not a so-called invisible wall, but until lately invisible dollars to build the system.

The town leaders have not said “no” to Piedmont Avenue being annexed to town. After all, they need people to help pay for the sewer system, or did the residents think it was going to be free?

I am referring to the article, written in the Washington Post dated Feb. 12 by Washington Post Staff Writer Sandhya Somashekhar. The reporter wrote mostly what she was told and her own impressions of what she was shown.

It is hard to write about some things if you haven’t lived them. The fact of the matter, it is not prejudice that is taking the town managers to proceed with caution, but money, rules, guidelines and doing things the right way.

The state of Virginia was not the only state or place to

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