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By Jambs P. Gannon
Special to the Rappahannock New*
Mike Riley punched some switches in a small control room just off a moonlit football field Tuesday night and tall banks of stadium lights slowly began to glow, reaching peak intensify in about 10 minutes.
The football field became a brilliant green carpet surrounded by its bluck, oval track, bathed in the glow of "Friday night lights."
The scene was the football stadium at Skyline High School, south of Front Royal, where Riley is director of maintenance. His guests from Rappahannock County were there to observe the sports-lighting system installed at the year-old high school by Musco Lighting, the same company that proposes to light three athletic fields at Rappahannock's public schools.
On hand were County Administrator John McCarthy, Board of Supervisors members Eddie Wayland of Piedmont District and Ron Frazier of Jackson district, and a reporter. The point was to assess how the lights might look if installed at Rappahannock fields, and how visible or disturbing the lighting might be for residents of Rappahannock, famous for its dark night skies.
The reaction of the Rappahannock officials, as judged by their comments during the
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