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Supervisors reject proposed solar farm near Bealeton Pennsylvania-based Dynamic Energy lost its bid to build the solar farm just east of Route 17, south of Bealeton. When I looked at this, I didn’t want to take solid farmland out of production. Those are good soils on that property. For me, I do not want to see that removed from farming. — Supervisor Rick Gerhardt (Cedar Run District) By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Journalist Fauquier’s board of supervisors Thursday night put an end to a Pennsylvania-based company’s plans to build a f...

Bealeton solar farm plan faces skeptical supervisors Photo/Dynamic Energy Dynamic Energy LLC proposes a solar farm along Route 17 south of Bealeton — similar to this one in Greenpoint, N.Y. I understand the need for renewable energy, and I don’t have a problem with that, per se. But when it has to come at the expense of potentially our rural lands . . . I think it’s a questionable trade-off. And that’s why I have reservations. — Supervisor Holder Trumbo By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Journalist Fauquier’s board of supervisor...

File Photo/Lawrence Emerson “As a veteran and a first responder, the action that those folks took (Wednesday) hurt my heart,” says Chris Granger, who served in the Army Reserves from 1990 to 1996. “I have always had the utmost respect for our country’s institutions and those that serve.” This going to be the year that we are going to have to get our community back on its feet and back open. There’s a vaccine. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. — Supervisors Chairman Chris Granger By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Jou...

Supervisors celebrate 2020 “Citizens of the Year” The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors 2020 Citizens of the Year (clockwise from top left): John Meadows, Steve von Elten, Donald “Duke” Yowell, Mark Deane and April Achter. By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Staff Journalist Fauquier’s board of supervisors Thursday night honored its Citizens of the Year — one from each the county’s five magisterial districts. The ceremony normally takes place in the first-floor meeting room of the Warren Green Building in Warrenton. But because ...