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Northam: ‘Virginia is for Amazon lovers’
Governor announces internet giant’s new location in Northern Virginia By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer
Efforts to entice Amazon to build its second headquarters in Virginia were rewarded with Tuesday’s announcement of a $2.5 billion investment by the corporate giant to spread its offices over Pentagon City, Crystal City and Potomac Yard in Northern Virginia. Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, decided
to split its second headquarters between Virginia and Long Island City in New York. States and communities across the nation submitted 238 different proposals that included incentives as they
bid to lure Amazon to them. Northern Virginia’s proposal included four sites in the city of Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County and Loudoun County. “National Landing,” the winning location, was proposed as a joint partnership between the City of Alexandria and Arlington County.
See AMAZON, page 4
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One woman’s kidney gives a Fauquier man a new lease on life — For Marianne Clyde and Lake Lester, this Thanksgiving is
especially meaningful. Clyde donated one of her kidneys to allow Lester to move up on a list to receive one, which he did in August. The two participated in a program that allows poorly-matched donor pairs to help strangers in need of transplanted organs.
Health & Wellness, page 23
Double homicide of Bealeton father, son remains under investigation By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer
The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate the homicides of a father and son in Bealeton that occurred last week. The victims were identified as Duong Nguyen, 61, and his son, America Nguyen, 22. They resided at 11027 Salisbury Lane in a new housing development in Bealeton. INSIDE Business.............................................13 Classified............................................42 Communities......................................34 Faith...................................................39
About 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, deputies went to the home after receiving a request to check on the welfare of the occupants. When deputies arrived, they discovered two deceased men inside the home. Each had been shot and their deaths have been ruled homicides, according to Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. James Hartman. As of Tuesday morning, no information about a motive and a time of death was available, Hart-
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man said. “Detectives are working closely with our law enforcement partners to utilize resources with the FBI, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Virginia Department of Forensic Science and others,” Hartman said in an email. “Neighbors, friends, co-workers and others have been very helpful and cooperative during the investigation.”
See HOMICIDE, page 5
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Pot-bellied pig, roundabouts, town manager situation focus of work session By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer
A woman’s request for a permit to keep a pot-bellied pig on her residential lot prompted chuckles and wry comments among Warrenton town council members during their work session Thursday. The matter of Catherine Croft and Hamlet, the pig she keeps at 449 Estate Ave. off Alexandria Pike near Walker Drive, came near the end of a meeting that saw council talk about hiring a consultant to help with the search for a new town manager and three possible new roundabouts. A section of the town code says a written permit is needed to keep a pig or hog, “or to maintain any pigpen or pigsty within the town.” The law has been on the books since 1981. Planning Director Brandie Schaeffer reviewed Town Code Section 3-5 — Keeping Swine and said council would be asked at Tuesday’s regular meeting to approve allowing one pig on the premises. That meeting occured after press time. Any other such requests will be handled on a “case by case” basis, she said. In a PowerPoint presentation, Schaeffer said that pigs need an outside rooting area and that outdoor activity is essential to their health. They can also be potty-trained, she said. “This is one hog of a situation,” remarked Council member Jerry Wood,
Hamlet, the pig Catherine Croft keeps at her home off Alexandria Pike near Walker Drive. A 1981 section of the town code says a written permit is needed to keep a pig or hog within the town. COURTESY PHOTO
who represents Ward 1 where the resident and her pig reside. Wood said Croft’s homeowners’ association has no objection to her keeping the pig as a pet. He said he received a complaint after Croft took in another pig which grew beyond what Croft was expecting when she took in another animal. “It’s not a pig, it’s a hog,” Wood said. It reportedly grew to twice the size of the smaller animal within two
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months. The SPCA, which placed the larger animal with Croft, was to remove it, Wood said.
More roundabouts?
During the more mundane part of the work session, Schaeffer said council would also be asked on Tuesday to approve a resolution in support of an application for $2.2 million in funding for three roundabouts. One would be at the intersection of East Lee, Walker Drive and Oliver City Drive and one at East Lee and Falmouth streets. The Virginia Department of Transportation has also suggested a roundabout outside the courthouse where Main Street, Waterloo, Winchester and Alexandria Pike converge. Schaeffer said however, “We’re not sure a roundabout is the best solution” at that location. The town owns quite a bit of right of way there for any intersection improvement, she added. The town will find out next spring if it will receive any funding. Formal design of intersection improvements will follow. There will be opportunities for public input at that point, either neighborhood meetings or larger group gatherings, Schaeffer said. Ge-
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neric designs of intersection roundabouts are being sent with separate funding applications to VDOT for the three intersections. “We’ll be looking at the radius of each circle. We’ll be looking at using the existing right of way without having to acquire more,” Schaeffer said. The application is for money available in the 2022-2023 funding cycle. Though a 10-percent local match is required “no new tax dollars will be needed to make this happen,” Schaeffer said. Existing proffer funding can be used for the local match.
ISO: New town manager
Regarding the town manager search, the town will advertise for proposals from consultants to conduct the search. The request for proposals is expected to go out this week with a deadline for submissions of Nov. 30 so that the council can review them in December. On Oct. 30, town council voted to “release” Brannon Godfrey from the remainder of his contract after deciding to “pursue a different direction in our executive leadership,” according to a statement released by Mayor Carter Nevill. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@ fauquier.com
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Nov. 6 election saw 63-percent voter turnout in Fauquier By James Ivancic Times Staff Writer
Voter turnout in Fauquier County was higher for this year’s Nov. 6 midterm than it was for the midterm election in November 2014 but was far below turnout for the November 2016 presidential election that saw Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. The number of registered voters topped 50,000 this year in Fauquier County with 50,888. Of those, 32,413 voted in the Nov. 6 election for a turnout percentage of 63.69 percent. The number of absentee voter applications processed by the Fauquier County Office of the General Registrar for this year’s voting was 3,746 — lower than the 5,281 applications in 2016 but higher than the 1,080 received in November 2014. Voter turnout was 43.79 percent in November 2014 when there were 47,267 registered to vote and 20,698 cast ballots. Voter turnout was 77.41 percent in Fauquier in November 2016 when there were 49,248 registered voters and 38,124 of them cast ballots. The results of Tuesday’s election were certified Friday following a canvass of the results and consideration of provisional ballots. Statewide, Democrat Tim Kaine won re-election to the U.S. Senate by a vote of 1,907,351 — 56.97 percent of the vote — to 1,373,615 — 41.03 percent for Republican Corey Stewart. Libertarian Matt Waters received 61,761 votes, or 1.84 percent of the total. Stewart beat Kaine in Fauquier County — 17,801 votes to 13,735 for Kaine while Stewart lost in Prince William County where he is chairman of the board of supervisors by a vote of 106,353 for Kaine to 54,004 for Stewart. Kaine also beat Stewart easily in Manassas,
TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ANITA L. SHERMAN Voters wait in line to cast ballots at C. Hunter Ritchie Elementary School Tuesday, Nov. 6. where the vote was 8,130 for Kaine to 4,496 for Stewart, and in Manassas Park, where the vote was 3,032 for Kaine to 1,260 for Stewart. In races for Congress, Republican Denver Riggleman beat Democrat Leslie Cockburn in the fight for an open seat in the 5th District, which includes most of Fauquier County. Riggleman took 165,339 votes statewide com-
pared to Cockburn’s 145,040 — roughly 53 percent to 46 percent. In Fauquier, Riggleman received 15,047 votes to 11,109 for Cockburn. Cockburn received slightly more absentee votes than Riggleman — 1,488 to 1,418. The only precinct Cockburn won in Fauquier was The Plains where she received 722 votes to 694 for Riggleman. In the race in the 1st District, which includes parts of Fauquier and Prince William counties, incumbent Rob Wittman, a Republican, beat Democrat Vangie Williams by a total vote of 183,224 to 148,433 — roughly 55 percent to 44 percent. Wittman carried Fauquier but lost to Williams in Prince William. Wittman received 3,915 votes in Fauquier to 1,996 for Williams — roughly 66 percent to 33 percent. Williams received 39,395 votes compared to 29,966 for Wittman — about 56 percent to 46 percent. In the hotly contested 10th District race featuring Republican Barbara Comstock and Democrat Jennifer Wexton, Comstock was unseated by a final vote count in the district of 206,245 to 160,790—about 56 percent to 43 percent. The race was close in Prince William where Wexton took 15,744 votes to 15,310 for Comstock. Wexton easily carried Manassas—7,794 for the Democrat and 5,118 for Comstock—as well as Manassas Park—2,959 for Wexton and 1,419 for Comstock. In the 11th District, Democrat Gerry Connolly won re-election over Republican challenger Jeff Dove by a final vote districtwide of 218,957 to 82,967 — about 71 percent to nearly 27 percent. Part of Prince William County is in the 11th District and Connolly won easily there with 47,363 votes to 14,683 for Dove — 75 percent to 23 percent. Reach James Ivancic at jivancic@fauquier.com
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