» The Star-Exponent editorial board endorses these candidates in Tuesday’s contested races ...

Editorial cartoon, November 1

As a Culpeper County native and longtime resident (I lived outside the county during my long military career),

This letter is in support of Culpeper’s native son, Dewayne Payne, candidate for supervisor in the Stevensburg District.

Thank you for Nate Delesline III’s excellent coverage of the County Planning Commission’s 4-3 vote to recommend home eviction for 77-year-old Alice Johnson of the Stevensburg District.

Bob Houck will receive my vote for the West Fairfax seat on the Culpeper County School Board.

As the Star-Exponent has pointed out, this year’s most contested local election is for Supervisor from the Stevensburg District.  Here are my views.

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part column by Culpeper’s town manager. The first installment ran Oct. 24.

» Big projects indicate that maybe the economy has turned the corner toward recovery.

Editorial cartoon, Oct. 31

I support Dewayne Payne Jr. for Stevensburg supervisor.

In his letter Oct. 18, Mr. White is correct in requesting that the town monies to invest in the State Theatre be put up to a vote by the residents of Culpeper. After all, it is our money and it should be used wisely.

I wish to encourage everyone to support Del. Ed Scott for re-election. I

A lot of folks have enjoyed using their voices in this newspaper to speak about the negativity of political campaigns and candidates this year, and all the while, they are the ones who are being negative and using unfair and misleading attacks.

Yes, Culpeper, I am one of those annoying grownups who still dresses up for Halloween. This year, I will represent a throwback to the ’80s, complete with big hair and fluorescent fishnets. But a large part of my Halloween is always the “cinematic experience.”

Editorial cartoon, Oct. 30

» It’s been a tremendous fall for local athletes in a variety of sports.

Morgan D. Harrington, 20, has been missing since Oct. 17, when she disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert in Charlottesville

The Culpeper County Education Association’s Committee for Children and Public Education recommends support for the following local candidates for the School Board:

Are we proper stewards of our community? Of Culpeper, our people, our resources?

Editorial Cartoon, Oct. 29

The solution to our problem is economic development.

» With election time right around the corner, let’s look back at the state’s rookie senators: Democrats Jim Webb and Mark Warner.

Bill Chase has been on the BOS for almost 28 years and has always been up front with his constituents and the residents of Culpeper County.

Editorial Cartoon Oct. 28

Both the Republican and Democratic parties have miserably failed the American citizens in the past 20 years.

Round and round we go, where it stops no one knows.

This is the first that I recall seeing members of the faith community deliver negative campaign materials to church doorsteps, and I must say I am appalled.

On behalf of St. Luke’s Lutheran School, I want to thank the Culpeper community for the support, financial or otherwise, you extended to us this past summer when our future was placed in doubt.

Regarding Monica Chernin’s letter Sunday, “Disappearing act downtown after Halloween”