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Loudoun County voters will have more opportunities to cast their ballots ahead of the November 3 general election, with expanded early voting hours, weekend voting and additional locations beginning Sunday, Oct. 18. The Loudoun County Office of Elections and Voter Registration in Leesburg will offer extended hours, including weekends. Four additional early voting locations will…
Applications are now being accepted for 80 income-restricted apartments at Atlantic Boulevard Apartments in Sterling, a new 100% attainable housing community partly financed by Loudoun County. The development includes one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, with approved applicants expected to begin moving in on or about Oct. 29. Atlantic Boulevard Apartments was developed by Green Street…
Loudoun County has completed construction of a new 24-hour crisis center designed to provide immediate care to adults experiencing mental health and behavioral health emergencies, with the facility expected to open to the public in October. County officials, state and federal representatives and community members gathered Saturday, Sept. 19, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the…
Applications are now being accepted for 80 income-restricted apartments at Atlantic Boulevard Apartments in Sterling, a new 100% attainable housing community partly financed by Loudoun County. The development includes one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, with approved applicants expected to begin moving in on or about Oct. 29. Atlantic Boulevard Apartments was developed by Green Street…
By Sophia Clifton
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors again postponed a decision on Dominion Energy’s proposed Golden Substation on Sept. 1, with a narrow 5-4 vote reflecting a growing divide over how much more the company should be required to do to improve the project’s appearance and how much risk the county can take with a facility officials say is important to the regional electric grid.
By Valerie Cury
For approximately four months in 2025, attorney Robert Sproul developed and oversaw the grievance process the Town of Purcellville used to hear then-police officer Carl Benjamin “Ben” Nett’s challenge to his termination.
In an April 22, 2025 email to Nett’s attorney, John Cook, Sproul acknowledged that the grievance procedure in the Town’s 2024 Employee Handbook had not itself been certified by the Loudoun County Circuit Court. But he said the previously certified 2005 procedure and the 2024 procedure were substantively the same.
By Valerie Cury
For over an hour and a half, Loudoun County officials talked about zoning ordinances, site plans, proffers, electrical substations and the complicated regulatory history of the former George Washington University campus.
By Valerie Cury
For more than a decade, Casey Chapman has been a familiar figure in Purcellville’s development industry.
Chapman, his brother Sam Chapman and business partner Aaron McCleary are part of CaseCo, a Purcellville-based construction and development company whose interests have included residential and commercial construction, restoration and real estate development.
Drivers traveling through the Rt. 7/Rt. 690 interchange in western Loudoun should prepare for lane closures, traffic shifts and possible delays beginning Wednesday, Sept. 30, as work gets underway to demolish and reconstruct the Rt. 690 bridge over Rt. 7. Temporary lane closures are expected on both eastbound and westbound Rt. 7 during allowable daytime…
By Valerie Cury
After nearly an hour of debating the pressures facing Northern Virginia—from data centers and power lines to housing costs, artificial intelligence and the changing workforce—the final question posed to the two candidates for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District was strikingly simple.