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Supervisors advance Letourneau-Turner redistricting plan By Laura Longley Where do you draw the lines? That is the question Loudoun’s supervisors, mayors, and engaged citizens grapple with every 10 years when, post-U.S. census, the County undertakes the onerous task of local redistricting. Their decision impacts the lives of present and future Loudoun residents for the next…
How Woodgrove’s theater program survived the pandemic to produce SpongeBob: The Musical By Laura Longley ‘Tis the season for high school musicals—in person, without masks—at last. But it’s been a rough road getting to this point for all of Loudoun’s schools. But here we are, with student thespians ready to take the stage. At Loudoun…
With Irish soda bread, Irish corned beef, Irish stew— and Scotsman Sean Connery? By Laura Longley Remember St. Patrick’s Day? That day once a year when everyone becomes Irish—except for the last two years, when COVID changed everything. 2022 must be our lucky year. It’s looking like we might go green again. Kids, back in…
By Laura Longley Imagine if the seven Planning Commissioners who attended the Jan. 11 Planning Commission Work Session, had not insisted on answers to those questions. What if they’d just nodded their heads and, without further information, sent a highly controversial Comprehensive Plan Amendment [CPAM] forward to the Board of Supervisors for their approval. The…
By Valerie Cury A year after he first proposed to the Town Council that Purcellville annex his 118.81-acre property on Purcellville Road, owner Chuck Kuhn held a briefing with community members to review his plans for the parcel. The meeting, held at Patrick Henry College on Jan. 26, was attended by some 50 people. Formerly…
By Laura Longley COVID has left many a Loudoun teacher with little or no time to pull together a Black History Month program. If you know someone in that pickle, you can do them a good turn by pointing them to the Black History Committee of Friends of Thomas Balch Library and its website (balchfriends.org/black-history-committee).…
The Town of Middleburg has awarded a construction contract to Cooper Building Services, LLC, of Frederick, Maryland, for the site development and construction of its new Town Hall in the amount of $10.7 million. After a ten-month design and engineering process, which included approvals and input by multiple citizen-led advisory committees and commissions, the Town…
Due to a forecast of inclement weather and out of an abundance of caution, Loudoun County is canceling the COVID-19 testing event scheduled for Friday, Jan. 21, at Philip A. Bolen Memorial Park. The National Weather Service says “dangerously low wind chills that may lead to frostbite or hypothermia when outside for extended periods of…
A 17-year-old from Leesburg has been charged with five counts of Attempted Murder after he discharged a firearm multiple times at an occupied vehicle on Saturday. LCSO Deputies initially responded to the area of Boxwood Place in Ashburn shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 15 after a resident reported hearing gunfire in the area. …
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has approved a disposable plastic bag tax of five cents per plastic bag that will be effective July 1. The new tax will be collected on purchases made at grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores countywide, including those within the county’s incorporated towns. The measure is intended to reduce…