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Starting salary for the county’s part-time solicitor was increased to $25,000 per year, with no benefits, at a Special Salary Board meeting which opened at 9 a.m. on Friday, January 6, 2012. Credited with making the pay-raise motion is Mary Ann Warren. Alan Hall, who called the Special Salary Board together, provided the motion’s second. And Treasurer Cathy Benedict provided an “aye” for unanimity. Then the same cast, playing the same roles, approved meeting closure at 9:01.

In the next breath, Chairman Hall called the special commissioners’ meeting together, still at 9:01, mind you. Commissioner Warren chalked up credit for three more motions in 60 seconds. The first was to accept Solicitor Michael J. Gathany’s resignation, with regret, effective January 4, 2012. The second was to appoint Thomas Meagher, of Nicholson, to the position of County Solicitor effective immediately. The third was to close the Commissioners’ Meeting. Chairman Hall played the role of second on all motions, and the unanimity provided closure at 9:02.

It was awards night at Blue Ridge. The first regular business meeting of the School Board on January 9 covered a relatively brief agenda, attending instead to recognitions of various sorts.

It was the first meeting for Lavone Lewis, who was welcomed as the nervous newest member of the Board with an executive session to start off the evening. New Board president Laurie Brown-Bonner announced another, earlier executive session, both of which she said were for personnel and legal matters, without further clarification. Returning member Cindy Gillespie didn’t seem nervous at all.

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