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By Audrey Carpenter A special Loudoun County School Board Meeting will be held on Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. with a public hearing and Board adoption of the FY25 budget. Those wishing to participate should visit the Citizen Participation page of the LCPS website. School Superintendent Dr. Aaron Spence introduced a $1.8 billion budget to…
By Audrey Carpenter Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Douglas J. Fleming Jr. postponed sentencing in the Scott Ziegler case Jan. 18 to take more time to review each of the attorneys’ motions and arguments. Sentencing was postponed two times previously, on Jan. 4 and Jan. 11. Zielger is the former Loudoun County Public School Superintendent…
At 12:51 p.m. Friday (Jan. 19, 2024), Virginia State Police was notified of a private aircraft making an emergency landing in Loudoun County. A single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan made an emergency landing in the westbound lanes of Route 606/Loudoun County Parkway near Arcola Mills Drive. The pilot was able to safely land the plane in…
Beginning on or about Thursday, Jan. 4, the segment of Arcola Mills Drive (Route 621) between Arcola Boulevard and Yardley Ridge Drive in Arcola will be closed to through traffic to widen the road. The start date of the project may be affected by the weather. A detour around the construction is expected to be…
By Audrey Carpenter At its Dec. 13 meeting, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors passed the final draft zoning ordinance rewrite (ZOR), a 1,490 page document that controls land use and development in the County. The vote was 8-0-1 with Supervisor Sylvia Glass, D-Broad Run, absent. It took Herculean efforts to get to this point,…
By Audrey Carpenter The outgoing Loudoun County School Board voted Dec. 12 to send a draft collective bargaining resolution back to the Legislative and Policy Committee for more study, leaving the new incoming school board members to pick up the issue when it meets in the new year. The Loudoun Education Association has been working…
By Audrey Carpenter Leesburg will soon have its own Valvoline Instant Oil Change located at the Compass Creek Retail Center with an anticipated opening date of 2025. The next closest Valvoline location is in Ashburn. The Leesburg Town Council approved a zoning amendment Dec. 12 to allow a vehicle/equipment service facility to be built next…
The Town Council is asking for interested residents of the community who wish to serve in an interim capacity as a Town Council member, until the upcoming special election is held on Nov. 5, 2024, to complete and submit an online application form . To be considered for the vacancy, we must receive your application, letter of…
By Audrey Carpenter In an unprecedented vote that ignored homeowners, business owners, farmers, legal counsel, politicians, a voluminous amount of conservation groups and even other utility industry peers, PJM Interconnection’s Board of Managers voted Dec. 11 to approve electrical transmission lines and a substation to be built through sensitive historic and environmental areas of Western…
By Madeline Skinner, President, Philomont Village Foundation The week of Dec. 4, the Village of Philomont was approved by the National Park Service for the National Register of Historic Places in national recognition for its role in Loudoun County’s agricultural and commercial industry through the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Application was sponsored by the…