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25 YEARS AGO

February 9, 1984

Former Rappahannock County Commonwealth’s Attorney Douglas K. Baumgardner has been named substitute judge and special justice for the 20th judicial district. The appointment made by Chief Judge Carleton Penn on February 6 fills the unexpired term of Peter H. Luke which ends on June 9, 1986. Baumgardner quipped that he and Luke were “swapping jobs.” The vacancy was created when Luke was elected Commonwealth’s Attorney.

On February 1, dispatchers at the new communications center in the sheriffs office began handling calls for police and emergency medical services. “We had a few bugs that are being worked out but over all, it went pretty smoothly,” reported Sheriff John Henry Woodward,

“There’s no way that where they want to put this is ever

Siing to flood,” maintained zoning administrator avid Konick, referring to a request from the Gid Brown Bible Church for permission to erect a modular addition on its lot in Gid Brown Hollow. Although flood waters may never creep up the hillside where the little white frame church is located, the county’s zoning map

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