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Thursday, May 3, 2007 • Kilmarnock, Virginia • Ninetieth Year • Number 30 • Three Sections • 50¢ White Stone 288-unit hearings Bluff Point to address development town finances to resurface WHITE STONE—Three public HEATHSVILLE—A proposal hearings dealing with the town’s to build a new residential subdi- finances and fines will open the vision at Bluff Point is back on town council meeting tonight the Northumberland Board of (May 3) at 7 p.m. in the town hall Supervisors’ agenda again three in White Stone. months after it was first adver- An amendment to the current tised. fiscal year budget to include an Kilmarnock Land Develop- additional $20,000 will be the ment is planning to develop the topic of the first hearing. Next 144-acre Long Branch Farm into year’s proposed budget will be up a combination of single- and for public review and comments multi-family residences totaling in a second hearing. 288 units. Council will propose spend- Developers requested in Feb- ing $513,513, an increase of ruary that their hearing be tabled $356,413 over the budget year while they completed their appli- ending June 30, 2007. Increases cation and discussed the project are mostly attributed to capital with concerned neighbors. improvements to the business Indian Creek residents have district and additions in the area taken a keen interest in the devel- of public safety. Those expen- opment, which may include a ditures are expected to be cov- sewer system that could service ered by state and federal grants, their subdivision. according to town manager Other residents of Bluff Point Garey Conrad. Road are concerned that the sub- Conrad also noted that the division could overload the road town’s investments in the Local with traffic, despite VDOT’s Government Investment Pool assurance that the road is capa- (LGIP) and in three certificates ble of handling the additional of deposit have grown to approx- volume. imately $500,000, placing it in a Mitchell wins Best-In-Show The plans call for a “neo-tra- “highly liquid financial position.” Lancaster High School junior Shanita Mitchell won Best-In-Show among LHS students participating in the annual school- ditional” development that would He said White Stone’s estimated wide student art show last weekend. Mitchell was honored for her canvas painting entitled “Destiny’s Child.” Hundreds include 181 traditional family net worth at the beginning of the of pieces, both two- and three-dimensional, were on display at Lancaster Middle School in Kilmarnock last Saturday and residences, seven single estates, current fiscal year was $691,757, Sunday. The works were crafted by students in grades kindergarten through 12 and were judged by members of the Rap- seven quad units, 71 townhomes including land, equipment, fur- pahannock Art League.The Rappahannock Foundation for the Arts contributed to the prizes. For a list of the winners, see and one bed and breakfast. Also nishings, buildings and improve- page B11. (Photo by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi) slated for the property is 8,000 ments. square feet of neighborhood A third public hearing will businesses such as a general address an ordinance raising store, two community piers and a fines related to vehicle moving boat launch. and parking violations and litter- The total open space alloted ing. It also would establish late for this acreage is 50 percent, payment fees. Speakers endorse proposed with 35 percent impervious sur- face. More than 200 feet of trees would buffer the development from the road. Steptoe’s Walkabout Representatives from Kilmar- $17.2 million school budget nock Land Development will series to begin May 4 present their proposal and the by Joan McBride board will take public comments KILMARNOCK—The Step- beginning at 7 p.m. in the courts toe’s Walkabout in downtown LANCASTER—The court- room ran out of seats as the building at 39 Judicial Place. Kilmarnock will begin Friday, At 7:30 p.m., the board will May 4. The theme will be “River Lancaster board of supervisors took public comment on the pro- hear comments on its proposal Country.” to abandon the bus loop at the Entertainment, from 5 to 8 posed fiscal year 2007-08 school budget. middle and elementary schools p.m., will include the Wayne T. near Claraville. Holt Band, the Sharon Baptist More than 30 citizens offered Church Men’s Choir and the New input, with two speakers oppos- Edition Line Dancers. ing the $17.2 million budget. Rappahannock Art League School teachers, administrators, members will paint scenes and parents, volunteers, and school Rev. Morris portraits around town. board members made up the Children attending can design majority of those who urged that to bless fleet their own nautical flags with the budget be passed as proposed fabric and paints provided by the by the school board. REEDVILLE—The annual RAL. Children also are invited to Parent Jack Hoffman presented Blessing of the Fleet will be held create their own masterpiece on a signed petition supporting the Sunday, May 6, in Reedville. a blackboard with colored chalk school board’s budget “as writ- At 3:30 p.m., a parade of boats outside the Doll House on Main ten, with no cuts.” He said that in Shawn Stickler speaks in favor of the school budget. will progress up Cockrell’s Creek Street. just over 48 hours, three people to the old Morris-Fisher factory had secured signatures from over tall stack property where the cer- 790 citizens. Those charged with investigat- ers through competitive salaries ing the parking lot conditions were continuing refrains in the emony will begin at 4 p.m. Numerous times during the Adoption session Sponsored by St. Mary’s Epis- almost three-hour hearing, board have all agreed that the situa- public remarks. tion is dangerous, she said. She “How can anyone think that The Lancaster board of copal Church in Fleeton and chairman Pete Geilich reminded Omega Protein Inc., the Reed- citizens that the county supervi- invited the supervisors to come SOL remediation is not justi- supervisors will meet at to the school at 8:15 a.m. and fied?” asked Emerson Gravatt, 3 p.m. today (May 3) to ville celebration has evolved sors appropriate money for the over the last 35 years to include schools. The school board makes 3:15 p.m. any week day to see the husband of a primary teacher consider the adoption of situation for themselves. and an admitted remedial read- a school budget for fiscal crab potters, fish trappers, the the final line-item allocations. menhaden fleet, and pleasure Nuts and bolts concerns “I don’t feel like our school ing student himself in the 1950’s. year 2007-08. The meeting is a number one priority,” said He acknowledged several of his will be held in the General craft. The Rev. Edward A. Tulis, expressed by school supporters Rector of St. Mary’s Church, involved pedestrian safety at the Lancaster High School student former teachers by name for the District courtroom. Tabitha Rinehart, the only stu- extra help they had offered him. invites all boaters to participate primary school during student in the parade and all well-wishers drop-off and pick-up times, the dent to speak at the hearing. An Gravatt took exception to example, she said, “The Internet the content of an April 2 memo Adjustment session to gather on shore at the old tall condition of the division’s aging stack property at Omega Protein school buildings, and outdated never works.” drafted by county planning The Lancaster school board Reading is fundamental administrator Jack Larson, a will meet Tuesday, May off Fleeton Road. supplies and equipment. Capt. Gus Dunaway will serve Parent Cindy Clarke has two The necessity of meeting former senior financial man- 8, at 5 p.m. at the school state and federal standards for ager in charge of budgeting and board office to consider as Honorary Harbormaster. The kids at Lancaster Primary School Virginia Marine Police patrol The Rivah Visitor’s Guide (LPS) where she said the traffic classroom instruction, fulfilling accounting in the Marine Corps. adjustments to the 2007- the public trust to adequately Larson’s memo to the supervi- 08 school budget based on vessel Cape Charles with Marine has arrived on newsstands patterns and inadequate parking Police Officers Lisa Gruber and throughout the Northern Neck make for unsafe conditions in the educate children, and the desire sors reported on his analysis of actions by the supervisors. and Middle Peninsula. morning and afternoon. to attract and keep good teach- (continued on page A15) (continued on page A15) Clarification County administrator Kenneth Inside PUD plat due review D. Eades noted that last week’s article on Northumberland Coun- ■ by Audrey Thomasson ty’s proposed budget “missed the Soaring high: KILMARNOCK—An application by developer Fred West mark” on the following line item Weems youth earns to rezone Grace Hill subdivision from Lancaster County R-1 to increases: Eagle Scout..............B15 Kilmarnock’s first planned unit development (PUD) will come • $79,800 for the new construc- before town planning commissioners next week. tion supervisor includes office Business..............B7-10 The site is off Harris Road and the rezoning request is the first expenses and a trailer as well as Calendar...............A2-3 within the new extended town limits established under Kilmar- his salary. Churches...............B2-6 nock’s boundary line adjustment (BLA). A court ruling approv- • $62,880 for an Assistant Classified.............C1-11 ing the BLA took effect at midnight, April 30. Commonwealth’s Attorney Directory............C14-15 The public hearing on Grace Hill is planned for 7 p.m.