We moved to Culpeper in October 2006 from Florida. We just received our 2008 Culpeper County real estate tax bill.

It is gratifying to live in such a generous community, one that places such a high value on its children who are our future leaders.

I have read with interest the recent letters regarding the local grocery stores and I feel the same irritation as the writers.

Anita Hartke’s diatribe (“Cantor should be fired,” Oct. 11) reveals, perhaps inadvertently, one of the many reasons that we voters are so dissatisfied with Congress.

U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, who represents Culpeper, needs to inform his constituency of the manipulation surrounding the Senate’s “bailout” vote Oct. 6.

Barack Obama was given his only executive job, funding his brand of “education improvement,” by Bill Ayers.

I think you all know — or could guess — that I’m supporting Obama for president.

We need to vote all of the board members out as soon as they come up for election and then start over with a newly consolidated town and county.

This letter is addressed to the person or persons who took it upon themselves to take the wood from the property across from the Fairview Cemetary on Sperryville Pike.

In Anita Hartke’s recent column in the Star-Exponent (“Cantor should be fired,” Oct. 11) she predicts a “huge Democratic landslide victory” and then just two paragraphs later says, “If I lose this election, it will be because the voters have been bought.”

Thanks to Catherine Amos for her fine story about the Civilian Conservation Corps (“Legacy Lives On,” Oct. 12) and to Joe Troilo for sharing his memories of his time with the corps.

What the American people are now witnessing are the ramifications of a Congress that has a history of vacillating between regulation and deregulation, according to the desires of a monetary system (the Federal Reserve) that was fraudulent to start with.

This is in regard to William Minnis’ letter to the editor Oct. 10 (“Being called a liberal is nothing to be ashamed of”).

There was no reason for Suzanne Tate to include the librarian, Ms. Elizabeth Hensley, in her letter to the editor Sunday (“Not the best choice of books on Obama”).

Catherine Amos wrote a timely article Thursday on consignment shops in Culpeper.

If you cherish our freedom and free enterprise, then you must vote the McCain/Palin ticket.

Here’s hoping someday Culpeper may get a ‘real’ grocery store.

At recent McCain-Palin campaign rallies some members of the audience have shouted things about Obama like, “Kill him” or “Traitor.”

I am sure the readers of this newspaper are familiar with the memorial park established on Wine Street to commemorate the service of Culpeper’s World War II and Korean War veterans.

With all the chatter about the town consolidation issue, I find it curious that Culpeper County residents have no say in the matter.

At a Republican campaign rally Friday in Minnesota, Sen. John McCain took the microphone from a woman who had called Barack Obama an Arab.

Last week a thief came on my land and stole property from me. The thief took two Obama for President signs.

In last Monday’s letter to the editor from Ms. Piatt (“McCain’s latest accusation seems a desperate one”), she would have us believe that the group called “The Weathermen” was just some benign protest group.

There are just no words to express how thankful I am at the wonderful way my benefit breakfast benefit turned out.

An independent water and sewer authority is a bad idea for both the town and the county residents.

As I write this letter, I am saddened by our country.

The enablers and defenders of the conservative movement in this country speak of liberals with contempt and scorn.

I have been observing the construction activities on Bus. 29 since its inception. It is hardly avoidable, as that is my route into town each day.

This week someone rang my doorbell at 8 p.m. A college-age kid handed me a bottle of dishwashing detergent and said it was a free gift. He then gave me a spiel about some company giving him money for college if he could just show me something.

Every morning, I look forward to the photos in the classified section of the Star-Exponent.