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County supervisors will appoint Kevin Carter to Center District seat By Coy Ferrell
Fauquier Times Staff Writer
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Kevin Carter has represented Ward 5 on the Warrenton Town Council since 2016.
Warrenton Town Councilman Kevin Carter (Ward 5) will be sworn in Thursday as the Center District representative on the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors, according to a press release Tuesday. He will finish the term of former Supervisor Chris Granger, who resigned last month after 10 years representing the Warrenton-area district on the county board. The term expires at the end of 2023. As was the case with the county board when Granger resigned, the Warrenton Town Council must now appoint someone to fill Carter’s term on the council, which expires at the end of 2024. The appointee will serve in the Ward 5 seat until a special election next year. Carter was first elected to the council in 2016 and won re-election in 2020. He works as the managing director of Lansdowne Resort and Spa and was previously the managing director of the Airlie Foundation. Carter told the Fauquier Times that he intends only to serve out the remainder of Granger’s term and that he does not plan to run for the Center District seat next year. When Granger resigned, Carter said, he did not throw his hat in the ring for the appointment. “I did not seek it out, as I had resolved that this was my last term on the council, and I didn’t want to jump into a seat that I wasn’t willing to rerun for in the future,” Carter said. “However, the board did reach out to me, and they felt that that was not an issue.”
Charles “Tripp” Bopp III
2 of 4 defendants to plead guilty in Trip Bopp homicide By Coy Ferrell
Fauquier Times Staff Writer
Two of the four defendants charged in the 2021 murder of Charles “Trip” Bopp III, of Remington, will plead guilty, according to court documents. A threeweek jury trial for the remaining two defendants remains scheduled to begin Sept. 19 in Loudoun County Circuit Court, where the trial was moved by a judge because of a “multitude of security deficiencies” in Fauquier County court facilities. See MURDER, page 14
See CARTER, page 13
Town Council to decide on stricter enforcement for upkeep of dilapidated homes in historic district By Colleen LaMay
Fauquier Times Staff Writer
The Warrenton Town Council will hold a public hearing Sept. 13 to decide whether to put “teeth” into a zoning ordinance intended to ensure homeowners in the historic district keep their properties from falling into extreme disrepair. “We are hoping to clean up some of the property maintenance issues here in the town,” said Rob Walton, director of community development. “This hasn’t been enforced as well as it could have been.” See HOMES, page 11
“What is happening is there has been some egregious cases of non-enforcement of property maintenance to the extent that we have historic treasures in town that are owned by a handful of people who for one reason or another are allowing them to decay before our very eyes.” JOHN ALBERTELLA Former Warrenton Town Council member
The town is working with the owner of this property at 151 Main St. to repair the porch. The owner could not be reached for comment.
County files countersuit against Data Stream. See page 3.
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