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          <title>Houck: Up conflict of interest kick&#45;in level</title>
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State Sen. R. Edward Houck, D-Spotsylvania, said the bill (inspired by a Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office conflict of interest case) simply modernizes the salary threshold at which Virginia&#8217;s conflict of interest law kicks in. &#8220;The last time this thing was updated was 1994,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The subcommittee felt this update was certainly acceptable.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:15:46 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Sheriff probe: No &#8216;knowing&#8217; violation</title>
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A special prosecutor has cleared Madison County Sheriff Erik Weaver of criminal wrongdoing in a conflict of interest case involving his wife&#8217;s longtime job as the sheriff&#8217;s office administrator. Prince William County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Paul Ebert had been appointed to look into whether Weaver knowingly violated Virginia&#8217;s conflict of interest statute by employing his wife, Terri, in his office at an annual salary of $34,910.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:01:32 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>$250,000 courthouse furniture nixed</title>
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Madison County&#8217;s Board of Supervisors did some belt tightening at its first 2010 regular meeting on Jan. 12. Supervisors froze &#8220;discretionary&#8221; spending, halted hiring some new employees and canceled $250,000 in new furniture for the courthouse. Three incoming board members&#8212;Dave Allen, Jerry Butler and Pete Elliott &#8211; had all campaigned on the idea of bringing greater fiscal responsibility to Madison. Accordingly, Butler and Elliott both proposed some of the new rules that covered department spending, staff raises and hiring and furniture purchases for the courthouse. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:08:18 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Pay for sheriff&#8217;s wife put on hold</title>
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Madison County officials have cut funding for the job held by Sheriff Erik Weaver&#8217;s wife, Terri Weaver, over concerns that her job in his office is a conflict of interest. The funding, which pays about a fourth of Weaver&#8217;s wife&#8217;s salary, will be suspended effective Jan. 31, Board of Supervisors Chairman Eddie Dean said            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:12:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Dean retains chairmanship</title>
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Eddie Dean has retained his chairmanship of the Madison County Board of Supervisors.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:33:39 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Suspense surrounds selection</title>
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It&#8217;s a cliffhanger rivaling an Oscars movie awards ceremony or Miss America beauty pageant: Whom will the Madison County Board of Supervisors &#8211; which includes a majority of new members &#8212; pick as its chairman? The chairman vote is expected to take center stage right at the start of the supervisors&#8217; next regular meeting, which is set for 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12 in the Madison County Administrative Center&#8217;s auditorium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:57:04 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Supervisors clash on spending</title>
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Madison County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman James Arrington said he wants to freeze some types of non-essential county spending, but his fellow supervisors seem reluctant to go along with his idea. Citing the slumping economy, Arrington proposed that the board of supervisors should stop spending money on projects like the Hoover Ridge athletic complex, or at least keep a closer watch on the money the county does spend. However, none of the three other supervisors present at the regular Dec. 8 meeting where Arrington made the proposal seconded his idea, so his proposal died.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:00:34 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>MC supervisors grapple with kennel issue</title>
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The Madison County Board of Supervisors has run into some challenges while attempting to redefine Madison&#8217;s &#8220;kennel&#8221; ordinance. The issue of what constitutes a kennel started in the board&#8217;s regular October meeting when a letter by Criglersville resident Bonnie Dixon raised the subject, according to County Attorney V.R Shackelford. The board decided at that time that the current definition was not adequate for protecting the rights of neighbors to kennels or potential kennels and the issue was sent to the Madison County Planning Commission in hopes of creating a new, more enforceable definition of kennel, according to Shackelford. People running kennels have to apply for a county special use permit.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:45:46 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Officials eye old Syria&#45;Etlan link</title>
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Drivers now have only one direct single-road link between the Madison County communities of Syria and Etlan. But they may get a second one. The Madison County Board of Supervisors is considering whether to resume maintaining the eastern half of Shotwell Hollow Road (Route 611) that connects Syria and Etlan.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:46:22 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Allen, Elliott, Butler win</title>
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UPDATE           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35:13 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>&#8216;Bump fists&#8217; with Carson at Madison Inn</title>
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The independent candidate for the District 30 Virginia House of Delegates takes another shot at meeting Madison County voters today (Oct. 30) at an informal event. Matt Carson missed the candidates forum Monday in downtown Madison because he had the flu, so he returns at 6 tonight for a casual meet-and-greet at the Madison Inn restaurant, 217 N. Main St.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:41 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Speedy Malvern solution eludes officials</title>
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Malvern residents are still waiting to hear if deputies will be allowed to ticket speeders and enforce other traffic laws there. The delay continues because the Madison County Board of Supervisors wants more information before it schedules a public hearing on the issue. The meeting is likely to be arranged after the next regular supervisors meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10. However, it is not immediately clear what the timeline will be.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:48 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Supervisor hopefuls share Criglerville ideas</title>
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These are the responses by the eight Madison County Board of Supervisor candidates on what, if elected, the position they would take on the county&#8217;s Criglersville school property. The election is Nov. 3.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:13:56 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>MC supervisor candidates questionnaires</title>
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Eight candidates are running for three Madison County Board of Supervisor seats up for grabs in the Nov. 3 election. These are their Madison Eagle questionnaire responses.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:03:21 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Carson ill, to miss forum</title>
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BREAKING NEWS

The two candidates running for delegate to the 30th District of the Virginia General Assembly&#8212;Matt Carson and Ed Scott&#8212;were scheduled to participate in a candidates forum set for 7 p.m. today, Monday, Oct. 26, in the Madison County Administration Center&#8217;s auditorium at 414 N. Main St. in downtown Madison. However, in an e-mail sent to the (Culpeper) Star-Exponent Monday afternoon, Carson&#8217;s wife, Heather, said her husband &#8220;has officially come down with the flu after knocking on doors and shaking hands for six-plus weeks.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00:30 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Supervisor candidates forum Oct. 22</title>
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Rural Madison&#8217;s Madison County Boartd of Supervisors forum is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 Madison County High School&#8217;s auditorium.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:09:52 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Planners clash on certification</title>
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Madison County Planning Commission members disagree on whether or not they should be certified and how much money from their $1,500 education budget should go to pay for it. Planning commission member Jacki Eisenberg backs certification, even though some of her fellow commission members do not.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:03:14 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Oct. 5 last day to register</title>
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Start with eight candidates running for seats on the Madison County Board of Supervisors, throw in a governor&#8217;s race and a delegate&#8217;s race, and you may have a recipe for a big turn-out for the upcoming Nov. 3 election, officials say. &#8220;Usually we have a good turnout in Madison (County),&#8221; said Voter Registrar Diana A. Eanes, adding that 60 percent or higher turnouts are not unheard of in Madison. If you aren&#8217;t registered to vote but still want to get in on the action, there is still time, but don&#8217;t wait too much longer. Unregistered citizens have until 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5 to register.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:06:44 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>MACE to host candidates</title>
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A Madison County group that focuses on promoting equality is offering an opportunity to learn more about the candidates that are seeking seats on the board of supervisors and school board. MACE &#8211; Madison Association for Continued Equality &#8211; will host a town hall-style meeting in which the office-seekers all answer three or four set questions, then field questions posed from audience members. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25 in the fellowship hall of Antioch Baptist Church at 1165 Mud Road in downtown Madison.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:03:51 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Town will time speakers</title>
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Madison Town Council meetings, set as they usually are in the town&#8217;s small office, can seem informal, almost like a group of friends gathering to talk about recent goings on. That atmosphere is expected to change somewhat, following a vote last week at the council&#8217;s meeting to place limits on the public&#8217;s speaking. The council voted unanimously Aug. 6 to stop citizens attending the monthly meetings from speaking longer than three minutes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:48:41 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>MC candidates forum announced</title>
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Madison County residents from all walks of life have stepped up to the plate to contend for the three seats that will be available this fall on the Madison County Board of Supervisors. Voters will chose from eight &#8220;newcomers&#8221; who are not currently serving as Madison County elected officials. Rural Madison has again scheduled a series of candidates&#8217; forums to help voters in making their picks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:25:43 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>July swells county coffers</title>
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The Madison County Board of Supervisors is starting the 2009-2010 fiscal year off with about $4 million more than it usually would have at this time of year. These funds &#8211; which make up more than half of the approximately $7.28 million the county currently has in its bank accounts at the moment &#8211; have arrived early due to the county&#8217;s switch to twice a year billing of real estate taxes.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:09:53 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Town multi&#45;use issue lingers</title>
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The Madison Town Council&#8217;s 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2 meeting is expected to include a vote regarding the council&#8217;s desire for the planning commission to reconsider a previously proposed town zoning change that would have allowed new stores to share their buildings with single-family apartments. 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:39:33 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Supervisors to have less say</title>
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The Madison County Board of Supervisors recently adopted a new county employee personnel policy, which one local official says will remove the board&#8217;s role in hiring and firing upper-level employees.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:49:19 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>County&#45;town miscommunication causes problem</title>
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Although Madison County and the town of Madison have co-existed for more than 200 years, a lack of communication between the two entities continues to raise concerns. County officials&#8217; recent move to do away with its motor vehicle decal fee and other related tax bill changes has left town residents concerned about being &#8220;double taxed.&#8220;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:26:08 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Eight vie for supervisor slots</title>
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Eight Madison County residents have officially thrown their hats into the ring, vying for three soon-to-be open board of supervisors seats. None of the incumbents up for re-election on the board &#8211; Bill Crigler, Bob Miller and Clark Powers &#8212; chose to file the necessary forms to be placed on the ballot in the Nov. 3 election.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:56:05 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Taxpayers pay sheriff legal fees</title>
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Madison County officials recently received state funds to cover Sheriff Erik Weaver&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s fees in his successful appeal of a lower court ruling that he willfully violated Virginia&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act. The $12,647 of state taxpayers&#8217; money the county accepted from the state compensation board fully covers the bills the county has received, and paid, so far from Weaver&#8217;s attorney, Harrisonburg-based Mark Obenshain, according to Madison County Finance Director Teresa Miller. (The county&#8217;s finance director said that the county might receive additional bills from Weaver&#8217;s attorney.)           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:16:45 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>New councilman appointed</title>
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Madison resident Dan Painter will fill the vacancy opened following the recent resignation of longtime Madison Town Councilman Charles Carter. Although most of the 20 town property owners and area residents who attended the council&#8217;s special May 14 meeting &#8211; including Carter &#8211; seemed pleased with the choice, much of the meeting was filled with heightened voices as citizens raised other concerns they have with the council.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:22:09 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Cater resignation fallout continues</title>
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About 20 town business owners and area residents initially filled the town meeting room May 7 expecting a discussion surrounding Carter&#8217;s surprise, immediately effective resignation, and his replacement.But within minutes, the meeting had been cancelled, and those who attended were forced to use the parking lot in front of the office as forum for their thoughts.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:18:08 EDT</pubDate>
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Madison County officials may look into knocking down the former Criglersville Elementary School building and transforming the property into a park.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve discussed the Criglersville school since I&#8217;ve been on this board,&#8221; Supervisors Chairman Eddie Dean &#8211; who started serving in 2004 &#8211; told the supervisors at their April 30 workshop meeting.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 11:15:49 EDT</pubDate>
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Madison Town Councilman Charles Carter resigns.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:44:02 EDT</pubDate>
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After The Eagle&#8217;s April 23 issue went to print last week, both Madison County School Board Chairman Jeff Early and member Doug Farmer responded to requests regarding their plans to run for re-election in November, telling The Eagle they had not yet made final decisions regarding their plans.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:54:35 EDT</pubDate>
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The Freedom of Information Act required that Madison County Sheriff Erik Weaver give names of members of his citizens advisory board to a Brightwood woman who requested them. But because the sheriff&#8217;s failure to follow FOIA statutes wasn&#8217;t done &#8220;willfully and knowingly,&#8221; the woman &#8211; Leigh Purdum &#8212; didn&#8217;t prevail. That&#8217;s the gist of the April 20 ruling by Judge Jay Swett in the sheriff&#8217;s appeal of a December 2007 lower court decision that he had willfully violated Virginia&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:52:50 EDT</pubDate>
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Linda Parrish won the April 7 special election for clerk of the Madison County Circuit Court, capturing 790 of the 1,273 votes cast, according to unofficial Tuesday night results from the Madison County Registrar&#8217;s Office. There were 233 votes cast for Andrew Wynham. Although officials Tuesday night would not tell The Madison County Eagle how many of the 242 write-in votes were cast for Jennifer Weakley, who ran as a write-in candidate, the information was released Wednesday morning after The Eagle went to press. Officials reported counting 235 write-in votes for Weakley.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:58:18 EDT</pubDate>
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Linda Parrish has won the special April 7 election for Madison County Clerk of the Circuit Court, capturing 790 votes of the 1,273 cast, according to unofficial Tuesday night results from the Madison County Registrar&#8217;s Office. There were 233 votes cast for Andrew Wynham. Officials Tuesday night would not tell The Eagle how many of the 242 write-in votes cast were for Jennifer Weakley, who ran as a write-in candidate. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to give that to you tonight,&#8220; said Madison County Electoral Board Secretary Tommy Tanner.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:54:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Although only two names will appear on the ballot in the special April 7 Madison County Circuit Court clerk election, a third person officially announced her candidacy last week and said she is confident she can win as a write-in candidate. Brightwood resident Jennifer &#8220;Jenny&#8221; L. Weakley, 37, a certified deputy clerk for the Culpeper County Circuit Court, said she can defeat the two candidates whose names will be on the ballot &#8211; Linda Parrish and Andrew Wynham.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:59:25 EDT</pubDate>
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&#8220;It was quite a love fest,&#8221; one county representative remarked jokingly as he left the county&#8217;s March 23 budget hearing. It seemed most of those who spoke at the March 23 public hearing took Supervisors Chairman Eddie Dean&#8217;s request to keep comments to a &#8220;positive view&#8221; without personal attacks to heart.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:02 EDT</pubDate>
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A Madison County woman will not be prosecuted for wearing a political T-shirt to the polls during last November&#8217;s election. Brightwood resident Leigh Purdum was arrested about a month after she refused to cover her John McCain T-shirt Nov. 4, 2008 at her Brightwood precinct polling place.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:26:30 EDT</pubDate>
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Madison County officials are looking to out-of-county visitors staying at local bed and breakfast inns and lodges to help recoup anticipated state funding cuts.
A &#8220;transient occupancy&#8221; tax &#8211; recommended by the county&#8217;s finance committee &#8211; would impose a two-percent tax on rooms rented out for less than 30 days. 
The tax would apply to &#8220;hotels, motels, boardinghouses, travel campgrounds and other facilities offering guestrooms,&#8221; according to finance committee member Bill Hinkes of Etlan.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:13:11 EDT</pubDate>
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Local residents will head to the polls for a special election this coming year. Madison County Circuit Court Clerk Caroline Watts will resign from her post early &#8211; with seven years still left in her unfinished term. &#8220;I&#8217;ve put in 25 years serving the community and the time has come for me to focus on some other things of a personal nature,&#8221; Watts told The Eagle last week. Her resignation is effective Jan. 1, 2009.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:18:10 EDT</pubDate>
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Town voters will have a choice when they head to the polls in May. Qualifying in the Madison mayoral and town council races closed last week, but not before two new challengers emerged to take on the incumbents.

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          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:19:01 EDT</pubDate>
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