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The Virginia Valley Vipers professional basketball team has relocated their home court to Patrick Henry College in Purcellville. The Virginia Valley Vipers, who play in The Basketball League, were established in 2022 in Winchester, VA, and are proud to be in the heart of Purcellville and Western Loudoun County. The TBL is a new men’s…
Three Loudoun County Public Schools, Blue Ridge Middle School, Farmwell Station Middle School and Woodgrove High School, have been recognized by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources for including environmental literacy in their curricula through the Virginia Naturally School Recognition Program. This year marks the 16th year Blue Ridge Middle has been recognized, the second…
The current Loudoun County government surplus auction features a wide variety of items, including a 2016 Homesteader Patriot trailer, a drafting table and a Dell Optiplex 5080 desktop tower. The auction also includes exercise equipment, typical office furniture, computers, printers and a Magnavox console record player, which includes an 8-track tape player and an AM/FM radio. The…
Save the date—it’s that time of year again for the Purcellville Tag Sale. On Saturday, Oct.12 join the community for a day of fun, shopping, and deals. Oh, and treasures, too. Sign-up will end Tuesday, Sept. 24. The Tag Sale will take place rain or shine. The Purcellville Tag sale is perfect for the hunter, collector, picker, and hoarder in us…
By Liz Tenney Jarvis Last month, August 4-11, the Junior Little League World Series was held in Taylor, Michigan. Upper Loudoun Little League’s Umpire-in-Chief, Chris Kerley, was chosen from hundreds of umpires nationwide to be in one of the seven World Series events. Kerley began to play baseball “late in life” at age 13. This was…
Loudoun County, in partnership with the Prevention Alliance of Loudoun and Loudoun Serenity House, will celebrate Recovery Month by hosting the fourth annual Loudoun Recovery Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Douglass Community Center, 407 E. Market St. in Leesburg. The Loudoun Recovery Festival is free and open to…
This upcoming Labor Day weekend, members of the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System and the Loudoun Career Fire Fighters Association Local 3756 will join the Muscular Dystrophy Association to collect donations for the 2024 “Fill-the-Boot” campaign. Firefighters will be collecting donations between Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, to support the MDA’s mission and…
Gibran Parvez will present Heritage Dulles, an interactive map that explores the area within and around Dulles Airport over multiple time periods, on Sunday Sept. 8, beginning at 3 p.m. at Thomas Balch Library. Participants will travel through time using an online interactive map-based museum, which is the culmination of research from a litany of sources,…
Loudoun County is closing the Sterling Park Recycling Center located at Park View High School, 400 W. Laurel Avenue, Sterling, effective Monday, Sept. 30. The last day the public will have access to the center is Sunday, Sept. 29. Due to the Park View High School replacement project, the closure of the recycling center is permanent. Loudoun…
On April 6 BSA Troop 711 held a Court of Honor at the Trillium Gathering Building in Purcellville and presented three scouts with their Eagle Scout awards. Only five percent of scouts achieve this top honor. Over the last 20 years 106 scouts from troop 711 have received this award, including these latest three –…