Fauquier Times 05/26/2021

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May 26, 2021

UPCOMING EVENTS

Meet the graduates from Liberty and Fauquier high schools. Pages 14 to 17 and 20 to 23.

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Clevenger’s Village construction to begin soon 6-year plan includes 774 housing units, plus commercial, office space

B roa dvi e w Aven u e

By Coy Ferrell

Times Staff Writer

Memorial Day events include a wreath laying on May 31. See page 3 for story on Vietnam veteran James Goad. A virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration is set for May 31. The Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail will hold a yard sale June 5. Astronomy for Everyone class at Sky Meadows State Park, will be held on June 12.

After 16 years of fits and starts, a 774-home mixed-use development in Jeffersonton called Clevenger’s Village is set to break ground this year. In January, Culpeper zoning administrators signed off on construction plans for the first phase of construction, which will add 115 single-family homes, and the developer indicated this month that construction at the site will begin soon. Located on the southeast corner of Lee Highway (U.S. 211) and Rixeyville Road (Route 229), the new See CLEVENGER’S, page 10

South Wales

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Georgia man indicted in 2008 homicide of Buddhist monk

Most commercial marijuana agriculture takes place in large, indoor growing facilities, county officials told supervisors during a May 13 work session.

Grand jury indicts 32 By Coy Ferrell

ADOBE STOCK

Legal marijuana is coming, but county has flexibility on zoning, retail sales By Coy Ferrell

Times Staff Writer

The Town of Warrenton is solidifying plans for Warrenton Town Limits on July 2. See calendar, page 6

Possession of marijuana will be legal in Virginia starting July 1, and retail sales and commercial cultivation will be legalized in 2024. There are certain facts that will be true in all Virginia jurisdictions; adults 21 and older possessing up to an ounce

WARRENTON

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Times Staff Writer

will be legal, for instance, and households may grow up to four plants for personal use. But the law passed this year by the General Assembly allows localities some flexibility, county officials told Fauquier supervisors this month.

After being arrested last year in connection with the 2008 homicide of a Buddhist monk near Marshall, a Georgia man has been inWon Yung Jung dicted on one count of second-degree murder. Won Yung Jung, 62, was arrested in November at his Duluth, Georgia home and has been in custody in Fauquier County since then. A grand jury convened in Fauquier County Circuit Court on Monday and handed down indictments to Jung and 31 others. Jung is accused of stabbing to death Du Chil Park, a Zen Buddhist monk known by

See MARIJUANA, page 4

See GRAND JURY, page 19

STATE CHAMPS! Highland’s girls soccer team won its third title in a row Saturday. See Page 25.

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