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One member of a new working group formed to look at diversity issues in King George is asking county officials once again to remove a Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn.
Any such object âhonoring the Confederacy endorses racism,â said Robert Ashton, one of three members of the new Diversity Advisory Committee and the vice president of the King George chapter of the NAACP. He wondered why surrounding counties have taken action to remove symbols of the Confederacy âyet King George is reluctant to do so.â
âIt appears to me that we have not grown as we say we have,â he said during Tuesdayâs Board of Supervisorsâ meeting. âMy question is, do King George leaders want to preserve a past of oppression for people of color or move forward in unity for all its citizens?â
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For a while Tuesday night, it looked like the King George County Board of Supervisors might lower the proposed real estate tax rate increase by a penny as board members favored reducing the local money given to schools.
But in the end, the fear of economic uncertainty propelled the board to move forward with a 3-cent increase, which would bring the real estate tax rate to 73 cents per $100 of assessed value. The rate is the lowest in the Fredericksburg area, and the supervisors are scheduled to approve itâand the countyâs $97.4 million budgetâon May 4.
Developing a county spending plan is difficult at the best of times, but King George faced several obstacles in addition to the biggest concern: the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. County Administrator Neiman Young left in February, and Travis Quesenberry, who had served in that post before 2016 when he went back to being county engineer, stepped in to fill the void until a new county administrator is found. King Ge
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The Ralph Bunche High School in King George County has two separate storylinesâone about its place in history during the national struggle for civil rights and the other about ongoing attempts to restore it.
The firstâthe story that members of the Ralph Bunche Alumni Association have been lobbying for decades to shareâspeaks to their struggle and perseverance. When Virginia refused to integrate schools, Black families in King George sued for the county to build a separate-but-equal facility, which brought about the opening of the high school in 1949.
The court action was viewed as a landmark case across the state and nation, said Claudette Jordon, president of the Ralph Bunche Alumni Association. Her group wants King George officials to pursue plans that consultants hired by the county came up with in 2017. The idea includes converting the school into a community center with museum exhibits that would âenlighten visitors about the role it played in the legal his
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