MEETINGS & NOTICES

The following offices will be closed on Wednesday (July 4) in observance of Independence Day: Rappahannock County government offices; Union First Market Bank, Washington; BB&T, Flint Hill; Department of Motor Vehicles customer service centers; U.S. Postal Service; Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services transportation services; and the Rappahannock News, where early deadlines are also in effect for the July 5 edition; all items for publication should be submitted by 5 p.m. this Friday (July 29).

Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors meets at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. (for a public hearing) on Monday (July 2) at the courthouse on Gay Street. Agenda includes: Tax Relief for the Elderly and Handicapped Program; Regional General Reassessment Project; Hazard Mitigation Plan Adoption; update on RSW Regional Jail financing; rural rustic road designation, Aaron Mountain Road (Route 622); donation form in tax bills; admissions tax; insurance coverages; employee health insurance work group; appointments to Water and Sewer Authority, Farmland Protection Committee, Recreational Facilities Authority; Haskell, Krebser and Thornton River Agricultural and Forestal Districts renewals (7 p.m.).

Rappahannock County Water and Sewer Authority meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (July 5) at the courthouse on Gay Street.

The Town of Washington's regularly scheduled July 9 council meeting has been moved to Monday, July 16, when the Town Council and the Planning Commission will hold a work session at 7 p.m. at Town Hall to review the draft Comprehensive Plan. The Town Council meeting will immediately follow the work session. A copy the draft Comprehensive Plan is available at Town Hall or by email request to town clerk Laura Dodd at washingtonva@earthlink.net.