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          <title>Town multi&#45;use issue lingers</title>
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The Madison Town Council&#8217;s 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2 meeting is expected to include a vote regarding the council&#8217;s desire for the planning commission to reconsider a previously proposed town zoning change that would have allowed new stores to share their buildings with single-family apartments. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:39:33 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Supervisors to have less say</title>
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The Madison County Board of Supervisors recently adopted a new county employee personnel policy, which one local official says will remove the board&#8217;s role in hiring and firing upper-level employees.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:49:19 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>County&#45;town miscommunication causes problem</title>
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Although Madison County and the town of Madison have co-existed for more than 200 years, a lack of communication between the two entities continues to raise concerns. County officials&#8217; recent move to do away with its motor vehicle decal fee and other related tax bill changes has left town residents concerned about being &#8220;double taxed.&#8220;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:26:08 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Eight vie for supervisor slots</title>
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Eight Madison County residents have officially thrown their hats into the ring, vying for three soon-to-be open board of supervisors seats. None of the incumbents up for re-election on the board &#8211; Bill Crigler, Bob Miller and Clark Powers &#8212; chose to file the necessary forms to be placed on the ballot in the Nov. 3 election.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:56:05 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Taxpayers pay sheriff legal fees</title>
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Madison County officials recently received state funds to cover Sheriff Erik Weaver&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s fees in his successful appeal of a lower court ruling that he willfully violated Virginia&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act. The $12,647 of state taxpayers&#8217; money the county accepted from the state compensation board fully covers the bills the county has received, and paid, so far from Weaver&#8217;s attorney, Harrisonburg-based Mark Obenshain, according to Madison County Finance Director Teresa Miller. (The county&#8217;s finance director said that the county might receive additional bills from Weaver&#8217;s attorney.)           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:16:45 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>New councilman appointed</title>
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Madison resident Dan Painter will fill the vacancy opened following the recent resignation of longtime Madison Town Councilman Charles Carter. Although most of the 20 town property owners and area residents who attended the council&#8217;s special May 14 meeting &#8211; including Carter &#8211; seemed pleased with the choice, much of the meeting was filled with heightened voices as citizens raised other concerns they have with the council.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:22:09 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Cater resignation fallout continues</title>
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About 20 town business owners and area residents initially filled the town meeting room May 7 expecting a discussion surrounding Carter&#8217;s surprise, immediately effective resignation, and his replacement.But within minutes, the meeting had been cancelled, and those who attended were forced to use the parking lot in front of the office as forum for their thoughts.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:18:08 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>County mulls demolishing school</title>
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Madison County officials may look into knocking down the former Criglersville Elementary School building and transforming the property into a park.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve discussed the Criglersville school since I&#8217;ve been on this board,&#8221; Supervisors Chairman Eddie Dean &#8211; who started serving in 2004 &#8211; told the supervisors at their April 30 workshop meeting.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 11:15:49 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Town councilman resigns</title>
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UPDATE
Madison Town Councilman Charles Carter resigns.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:44:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Spots open in Madison races</title>
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After The Eagle&#8217;s April 23 issue went to print last week, both Madison County School Board Chairman Jeff Early and member Doug Farmer responded to requests regarding their plans to run for re-election in November, telling The Eagle they had not yet made final decisions regarding their plans.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:54:35 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Judge: Sheriff unsure on FOIA</title>
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The Freedom of Information Act required that Madison County Sheriff Erik Weaver give names of members of his citizens advisory board to a Brightwood woman who requested them. But because the sheriff&#8217;s failure to follow FOIA statutes wasn&#8217;t done &#8220;willfully and knowingly,&#8221; the woman &#8211; Leigh Purdum &#8212; didn&#8217;t prevail. That&#8217;s the gist of the April 20 ruling by Judge Jay Swett in the sheriff&#8217;s appeal of a December 2007 lower court decision that he had willfully violated Virginia&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:52:50 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Parrish wins clerk race</title>
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Linda Parrish won the April 7 special election for clerk of the Madison County Circuit Court, capturing 790 of the 1,273 votes cast, according to unofficial Tuesday night results from the Madison County Registrar&#8217;s Office. There were 233 votes cast for Andrew Wynham. Although officials Tuesday night would not tell The Madison County Eagle how many of the 242 write-in votes were cast for Jennifer Weakley, who ran as a write-in candidate, the information was released Wednesday morning after The Eagle went to press. Officials reported counting 235 write-in votes for Weakley.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:58:18 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Special clerk election April 7</title>
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Linda Parrish has won the special April 7 election for Madison County Clerk of the Circuit Court, capturing 790 votes of the 1,273 cast, according to unofficial Tuesday night results from the Madison County Registrar&#8217;s Office. There were 233 votes cast for Andrew Wynham. Officials Tuesday night would not tell The Eagle how many of the 242 write-in votes cast were for Jennifer Weakley, who ran as a write-in candidate. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to give that to you tonight,&#8220; said Madison County Electoral Board Secretary Tommy Tanner.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:54:58 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Weakley predicts write&#45;in win</title>
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Although only two names will appear on the ballot in the special April 7 Madison County Circuit Court clerk election, a third person officially announced her candidacy last week and said she is confident she can win as a write-in candidate. Brightwood resident Jennifer &#8220;Jenny&#8221; L. Weakley, 37, a certified deputy clerk for the Culpeper County Circuit Court, said she can defeat the two candidates whose names will be on the ballot &#8211; Linda Parrish and Andrew Wynham.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:59:25 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Groups thank county for money</title>
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&#8220;It was quite a love fest,&#8221; one county representative remarked jokingly as he left the county&#8217;s March 23 budget hearing. It seemed most of those who spoke at the March 23 public hearing took Supervisors Chairman Eddie Dean&#8217;s request to keep comments to a &#8220;positive view&#8221; without personal attacks to heart.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>McCain T&#45;shirt case dropped</title>
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A Madison County woman will not be prosecuted for wearing a political T-shirt to the polls during last November&#8217;s election. Brightwood resident Leigh Purdum was arrested about a month after she refused to cover her John McCain T-shirt Nov. 4, 2008 at her Brightwood precinct polling place.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:26:30 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Guestroom tax draws fire</title>
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Madison County officials are looking to out-of-county visitors staying at local bed and breakfast inns and lodges to help recoup anticipated state funding cuts.
A &#8220;transient occupancy&#8221; tax &#8211; recommended by the county&#8217;s finance committee &#8211; would impose a two-percent tax on rooms rented out for less than 30 days. 
The tax would apply to &#8220;hotels, motels, boardinghouses, travel campgrounds and other facilities offering guestrooms,&#8221; according to finance committee member Bill Hinkes of Etlan.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:13:11 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Caroline Watts to resign</title>
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Local residents will head to the polls for a special election this coming year. Madison County Circuit Court Clerk Caroline Watts will resign from her post early &#8211; with seven years still left in her unfinished term. &#8220;I&#8217;ve put in 25 years serving the community and the time has come for me to focus on some other things of a personal nature,&#8221; Watts told The Eagle last week. Her resignation is effective Jan. 1, 2009.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:18:10 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Mayor, Councilors Will Face Opposition</title>
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Town voters will have a choice when they head to the polls in May. Qualifying in the Madison mayoral and town council races closed last week, but not before two new challengers emerged to take on the incumbents.

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          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:19:01 EDT</pubDate>
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