Down Memory Lane
From Back Issues of the Rappahannock News
Oct. 14, 1998 DAUGHTER JOINS MOTHER AT HAIR CARE CABIN
Anita Ashby recently joined her mother Brenda Hensley at Brenda’s Hair Care Cabin located at the former Toll House at 12717 Lee Highway. The attractive brunette possesses an engaging smile and friendly manner that puts one immediately at ease.
Mother and daughter like to think of themselves as a team and judging from their lively repartee, working together is something they obviously enjoy.
Ashby enjoys working with younger people. She likes to do some of the popular, trendier styles like braiding, coloring and hair painting. She is a beautician who says she especially likes working with long hair. Also, she does a variety of permanents including her specialty, the spiral perm.
Hensley is celebrating her fourth anniversary at the shop on Lee Highway. The shop offers a variety of hair and beauty treatments for men and women. Plans for the future include opening the upstairs as a spa to include manicures, waxing and tanning beds.
Jan. 20, 1976 CONFLICT BETWEEN SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY
A con ict between the Rappahannock Sheri ’s o ce and the Commonwealth’s Attorney over law enforcement practices and allegedly excessive mileage charges came out in the open at last Friday’s special meeting of the Board of Supervisors, a er discussion in a previous executive session.
Under state law, it is the responsibility of the Commonwealth’s Attorney to advise the Board of Supervisors on any payments from the county that he deems unjust or improper. George Davis exercised this obligation and advised the Supervisors against paying a speci c mileage charge from one of the Rappahannock Sheri ’s deputies, and then held up the December mileage checks for all four of the county deputies.
A er an earlier executive session, the Supervisors voted to disallow a mileage reimbursement to Martin Or la for an approximately 500 mile trip to investigate the rustling of a bull from the Flint Hill area in November.
Sheri William Buntin had instructed the deputy to go to Pennsylvania, believing that the bull had been taken there. Davis told Or la not to go, maintaining that the deputy would nd no evidence that Davis could use in prosecuting the case. Or la went but found nothing, and subsequently, Davis advised the board against paying the 15-cents per mile charges for the 500-mile drive. The Supervisors followed his advice, but discovered later that Davis had never discussed the matter with Buntin.
MOVE TOWARDS REZONING SUITABLE PROPERTY FOR LANDFILL PURPOSES
The Rappahannock Board of Supervisors scheduled last Friday’s special meeting for the purpose of formulating an amendment to the subdivision ordinance. They announced at the regular meeting in January that they intended to move towards rezoning suitable property for land ll purposes, and Friday’s work session was called to develop an amendment that would allow the Supervisors to issue a conditional special use permit to control land ll activities.
Instead, the Board reversed itself and voted to send the special use permit application from E. B. and Ruth Updike back to the Board of Zoning Appeals. They decided to ask the BZA to reconsider the request for the land ll on Route 522 outside Sperryville, in light of new soil information received since the application rst came before the Board and was denied.