Government
The Loudoun County School Board adopted its Fiscal Year 2024 Operating Budget, including increased employee compensation, at its Tuesday, Aug. 8, meeting. The approved Operating Budget is $1,668,345,179, a 6.9 percent increase over Fiscal Year 2023. The approval came outside the traditional budget cycle due to the lack of a final state budget. Loudoun County…
Christopher G. “Chris” Reed has announced his run for the vacant Purcellville Town Council seat in the Nov. 7 special election.
By Tabitha Reeves Though differing in political affiliation and economic ideology, state politicians, semiconductorexperts and higher education professionals gathered on July 18 at Northrop Grummanheadquarters in Falls Church to attend the CHIPS for Virginia Summit. There, they expressedtheir support for the Commonwealth of Virginia to become a leader in the semiconductorindustry. From cell phones and…
Caleb Stought moved to Purcellville in 2019 and lives in the Mayfair community with his wife Erica, who grew up in Loudoun County, and their two daughters. They are expecting their third girl in September. He served on the Town of Purcellville’s Community Policing Advisory Committee. Stought works from home as a software engineer, and…
Work has begun on the Valley Springs II subdivision, which is inside the county and zoned as Joint Land Management Areas 2 and 3 (JLMA-2 and JLMA-3).
At the end of the July 25 Purcellville Town Council Work Session the town council came out of closed session and voted 5-0-2 to appoint Loren “Rick” Bremseth as the new permanent town manager.
“I’m the current president of the Loudoun Wineries and Wine Growers Association,” said Baki. “We support the simplification of the definition for Virginia farm wineries to align with the Code of Virginia.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on July 22, an increase of 23,000 more employed Virginians in June, bringing the total to 201,472 more Virginians employed since January 2022. The labor force participation rate also rose 0.1 of a percentage point to 66.6%, the highest rate since January 2013. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics…
During its July 18, meeting, the Loudoun Board of Supervisors authorized the creation of the Rivana at Innovation Station Community Development Authority. The CDA is a mechanism that allows for an investment in public infrastructure for the development without impacting the county’s bond rating and fiscal health. Rivana at Innovation Station is a 79-acre site northwest…
The Loudoun County Health Department is now under the administration of the county government, completing a process formally initiated by Loudoun County in 2020 with its fall Legislative Report, to serve Loudoun residents better and improve several operational efficiencies. Under an agreement between Loudoun County and the Virginia Department of Health, the department has transitioned…