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County supervisors look into supplementing VDOT's mowing; Leesburg's local laws could be changing.
Students and parents speak out in favor of continuing to send students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; the school system hires its first equity director.
A wrongful termination lawsuit against Sheriff Michael Chapman is again dismissed; the Dulles Greenway opens a new exit to get to a new Walmart.
Waterford residents are upset about Dominion cutting back trees in the village; a Stone Bridge High school student is arrested for making online threats to a school in Broward County, FL.
Visit Loudoun recognizes one of the best haunted houses and one of the first farm-to-table restaurants in the country; a man faces 20 years in federal prison after a woman is poisoned with a date rape drug.
County supervisors push on data center sprawl and housing prices in suburban Loudoun; it could soon be against school system rules to vape on the job.
Drug Court gets its first participant; the Riverside High School Marching Rams have notched two state championships in the four years since they formed.
Plans for a new Aldie fire house hit a stumbling block, but the county government presses ahead; Telos Corporation donates $25,000 to help vulnerable children and their families.
Sterling Volunteer Rescue is looking for new recruits; a man drowns working on a dam on Goose Creek.
County supervisors start work on the county's first-ever Urban Policy Area; the School Board debates whether to stop sending Loudoun students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax.
Sugarland Run Elementary goes from a focus school to a model school in five years; Loudoun County Public Library visits Awesome Con.
A new Civil War historic park opens near Middleburg; the Loudoun County Combined Fire/Rescue System finally gets Kirkpatrick Fire and Rescue Station.
Leesburg Town Council members see an eroding relationship with the county government as free government software goes away; two Loudoun 8th graders head to a national chemistry challenge.
Leesburg residents ask the town council to stop spraying the Town Branch with an herbicide called glyphosate; the Loudoun Education Foundation is once again raising money to help feed hungry students.
Supervisors get a ranking of the worst intersections without stoplights in Loudoun; the Loudoun Museum looks for ideas.
Step Up Loudoun has a tie for first place; the Town of Purcellville is down to three breweries.
The Loudoun Chamber's Valor Awards recognize some of the heroes of the past year; Rockwool opponents travel to Denmark to meet the shareholders and CEO personally.
Loudoun County Fire-Rescue recognizes some of its standouts; a Loudoun Valley High School student wins the national speed skating championship.
Kincora and the Children's Science Center gather to celebrate their progress; Food for Fines is back.
County supervisors question some of the studies behind the latest draft of the new comprehensive plan; the school system's new Ad Hoc Committee on Equity holds its first meeting.
An anti-corruption nonprofit and a group of environmentalists win a legal battle to reopen the Potomac around Trump National golf club; a junior at Stone Bridge High School makes chess history.
Loudoun's drug court opens once again; a Lovettsville woman's search for a kidney is over, thanks to her husband's fellow airmen.
The county's easternmost agricultural district is going away; Loudoun gets ready for the 2020 census.
The Planning Commission starts the countdown on the new comprehensive plan; three students from Foxcroft School win national awards for their art.
A fatal crash on Evergreen Mills Road provides the lesson for a first-of-its-kind lifesaving technique in the region; an Air Force recruiter will not be prosecuted for bringing a gun into Tuscarora High School.
Leesburg nonprofit ECHO adapts to changing federal regulations that put 20 people with disabilities out of a job; the Arc of Loudoun celebrates three people for their work supporting people with disabilities.
The comprehensive plan finally gets to the Board of Supervisors—as election year politics take hold; supervisors approve a huge Metrorail-area development.
Local government staff and historians race to document all of Loudoun's historic burial grounds; Purcellville Town Manager David Mekarski's proposed budget defers tax increases but not budget increases.
For the second time, a former senior officer under Sheriff Michael Chapman is now trying to unseat him; a man from West Virginia is arrested in charged in the death of a Bluemont man on the side of Rt. 7 in Clarke County.
What builds roads, fights fires, funds schools, keeps the libraries opens an costs $3 billion a year? And police are investigating two incidents of gunfire, one fatal.
Middle Schoolers at Eagle Ridge Middle School spend time every Friday building and programming robots; Loudoun United scores the first goal in franchise history.
The Planning Commission wraps up work on the comprehensive plan, which is pretty much what it sounds like; two men are accused of mailing seven pounds of marijuana.
County supervisors appoint a committee to try to make sure everyone gets counted in the 2020 census; longtime western Loudoun community resource officer Victor LoPreto retires.
County supervisors approve nearly $30 million of road safety improvements on Evergreen Mills Road, although it will be years before drivers see it; Trump National Golf Course is cited for illegally clearcutting along the Potomac River and dumping those trees in the river.
A mastiff named Goliath finds a home, and his story could win a local shelter $20,000; after two house fires, the Fire Marshal urges fire safety in the cold months.
County supervisors get to work on the county budget; a controversial plan to develop part of Westpark golf course in Leesburg is set for a public hearing.
Supervisors hear from the public on the next county budget; Loudoun farmers and producers make deals with industry buyers at a "speed-dating" event.
Faith leaders gather for a meeting on what elected leaders can do to combat racism; a champion spellers gets the three-peat.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office demands nearly $2,000 for a document police departments around the region post on their websites; a leader of Loudoun's wine industry is honored for his accomplishments.
The School Board creates a committee on equity issues in the school system and adopts protections for LGBT students and teachers; Buzzed at the Bee is back tonight!
After a rash of stray bullets hitting homes, a county committee largely shies away from expanding shooting regulations; credit card skimmers are found on gas pumps in Ashburn.
Supervisors vote down a purchase of development rights program; Buzzed at the Bee is back.
The General Assembly clears the way for Loudoun's new state park; school leaders apologize for a lesson that had students chasing escaped slaves through the Underground Railroad.
A new plan could eliminate call transfers during 911 calls; the Purcellville Library isn't going anywhere for now.
Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Plowman gets a seat on the other side of the courtroom; land around future Metro stops is even more expensive than predicted.
County supervisors get good news about the county budget; taxes in Leesburg could go up.
The School Board could get its full budget request this year; Loudoun's own pro soccer team signs its first two players.
The RoboLords head to an international robotics competition; the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is looking for an armed bank robber.
The state senate's budget puts plans for Loudoun's future state park in jeopardy; another seat opens up on the Circuit Court bench.
New projections show more of Loudoun is now expected to hear jet noise when Dulles International Airport is fully built out; land values are up and affordable housing is down.
Attorney General Mark Herring is the latest to admit wearing blackface; tolls on the Dulles Greenway are going up again.
The School Board finishes work on its $1.3 billion budget request; the first Silver Line trains roll into Loudoun for track testing.
Fire alarms help a family safely evacuate when their house burns down in the early morning hours; Loudoun schools celebrate Black History Month.
All seven towns have now passed resolutions opposing plans for an insulation factory in West Virginia; 100WomenStrong's challenge to the community has a taker.
Local state senators vote down a bill for increased oversight over the Dulles Greenway's tolls; Lovettsville gets ready to elect two council members.
State delegate and former foster child David Reid pushes a bill to let adopted kids keep in contact with their birth parents, if appropriate; the Hillsboro Town Council awards this year's Community Service Awards.
The Loudoun Chamber honors community leaders over the past year; Loudoun United gets its first head coach.
The company planning an insulation factory a few miles from Loudoun's border responds to concerns from Attorney General Mark Herring; a woman from Potomac Station tries to raise awareness of the number one killer of women in the U.S.
Firefighters fight for better workers' comp when they get cancer; suspension rates drop in the school system, but disparities for minorities remain.
VDOT unexpectedly dumps 350 tons of rock onto the banks of Catoctin Creek; water and sewer rates are set to go up in Leesburg again.
The county takes oversight of developer-controlled traffic studies; Loudoun's first culinary incubator opens at Village at Leesburg.
The Dulles Greenway backs out of a deal to trade some distance-based tolling for ten more years of guaranteed toll increases; two men plead guilty to running a prostitution business for three years.
So far there are twice as many Democrats running for office in Loudoun, and as of the new year they have raised twelve times as much money; it's time to nominate farmers for farmer trading cards.
Loudoun gets a new Circuit Court judge, picked over the objections of Loudoun's legal community and state representatives; school Superintendent Eric Williams unveils his idea for a performing arts elementary school.
A federal court rules Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall violated by a Loudouner's constitutional rights by deleting a comment and blocking him on Facebook; the School Board sets policies on restraining and secluding students.
Supervisors try to cut furloughed federal employees a break; Purcellville is the sixth Loudoun town to formally express concern about plans for an insulation factory in West Virginia.
The 33rd State Senate District stays in Democratic hands, triggering another special election; Superintendent Eric Williams unveils his proposed school system budget.
Budget season is underway; the School Board considers naming a school after The North Star, Frederick Douglass's abolitionist newspaper.
Tomorrow is election day again; Round Hill becomes the fifth Loudoun town to pass a resolution on the potential negative environmental impacts of a planned factory nearby in West Virginia.
A state park in northwestern Loudoun is closer than ever; Loudoun County offers places to recycle those Christmas trees.
The cost of construction keeps going up for the Loudoun taxpayer; the Leesburg Town Council goes back to square one on preserving the Sycolin Cemetery.
Leesburg is now the third town to voice opposition to plans for an insulation factory in Ranson, WV; Loudouners pour the pressure on to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment at a public hearing with state lawmakers.
Loudoun's legal community pushes back on an apparent fast-tracking to a judicial nomination; a couple from Maryland goes to federal prison for stealing ATMs.
The Academies of Loudoun nursing program can stay open for now; the school system could lose a budget boon it's been able to assume for decades.
A state delegate from Prince William County proposes to cut tolls on the Dulles Toll Road by raising taxes on United Airlines; the Leesburg Town Council schedules a special meeting to talk about plans around the Sycolin Cemetery.
County supervisors recommend a team to notify Loudouners when treated sewage fertilizer will be spread next door; the School Board continues debate restraint and seclusion practices in the schools.
About 2,100 elementary schoolers in southern Loudoun will be going to different schools; Michelle Thomas of the Loudoun Freedom Center and Phillip Thompson of the Loudoun NAACP call the Town of Leesburg's plans for a historic black cemetery 'racist.'
Resistance to plans for the Rockwool insulation plant across the border in West Virginia grows in Western Loudoun; small schools are spared for another year.
The School Board's Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education makes recommendations for what kind of restraint should be used on students and when; county supervisors adopt a program to help pay the cost of protecting land from development.
The Round Hill Town Council finally finds someone for its empty seat; the Stanley Cup comes to Middleburg (sorry, Lovettsville.)
Supervisors study transfer of development rights; the School Board asks the county to move recycling drop-off points off school campuses.
Distance-based tolling is coming to the Dulles Greenway; county supervisors study expanded gun safety regulations.
A fund to help preserve small farms carries on Malcolm Baldwin's work; Leesburg Elementary School gets a new principal with a familiar face.
A county working group recommends only minor tweaks to the county's gun laws; the School Board debates ditching Loudoun's Licensed Practical Nursing program.
Water and sewer rates are set to go up in Leesburg—every year for the next five years; member of the School Board calls Del. Dave LaRock (R-33)'s claims about their homeschooling policy "completely erroneous" and "propaganda."
Loudoun's economic development and tourism leaders say sister cities around the world bring the county an economic edge and millions in visitor spending; Town of Leesburg staff say trash pickup woes are getting worked out.
School administrators predict next year Loudoun will be able to offer every kindergartner a full six-hour day again after all; Waxpool Elementary School gets its first principal.
The School Board puts off deciding whether to close two small western schools until it has a member representing those schools; Bullets and Beans won't be allowed to sell coffee with their guns, so they'll sell lingerie with their guns.
Loudoun's land conservation programs may have something to learn from Maryland; a proposal to help put land in conservation easements moves to the Board of Supervisors.
A Loudoun Valley High School varsity football kicker turns his season into fundraising for childhood cancer research; Democrats and Republicans pick their candidates for the special election January 8.
The Loudoun Impact Fund celebrates $125,000 in grants to nonprofits; the sheriff's office asks people to report crimes before tweeting them.
The School Board votes in favor of protections for LGBT employees and keeping guns out of all school system buildings; tolls are going up on the Dulles Toll Road.
Amazon's new headquarters is going to Crystal City—so is that a good thing for Loudoun? The Loudoun Museum hires a new executive director.
County supervisors set their priorities for state funding, including a judgeship and restoring funding for regional transportation needs; a Loudoun conservation icon dies.
Planning commissioners, Loudouners, and builders are divided over the new comprehensive plan; the Loudoun County High School Marching Raiders win one of the top awards in the country.
Now that Jennifer Wexton is going to Congress, the race is on to see who will take her seat in the state senate; a fifth person joins the race for an empty School Board seat.
The blue wave continues, sending a Democrat to the House of Representatives in the 10th District for the first time in almost 40 years; Loudoun mayors propose a plan to avoid developing the transition policy area.
Lovettsville hires its new town manager, who has been fired from his two previous jobs as town manager; parents and educators worry about a proposal to put high school parking on an elementary school campus.
The school system works to update social studies textbooks; a man from Alexandria is scheduled to be indicted on murder charges after two shooting deaths at a hookah lounge in Sterling.
Hillsboro calls for a stop to the Rockwool plant in West Virginia; Middleburg hires a Purcellville's former assistant town manager.
State lawmakers say they're working on a fix to a law that shut down communications between county supervisors and developers across much of Loudoun; two more people throw their hats in the ring to fill a vacant School Board seat.
The SAT scores are in, and Loudoun students are above average; the School Board plans to fill its empty seat.
The county hopes to have a new fire station—scheduled to open in winter of last year—open by May 1 of next year; a Loudoun County Public Schools employee is accused of upskirting at Woodgrove High School.
The Loudoun Education Foundation announces a $100,000 gift to Lucketts Elementary School; three teens are charged in a sexual assault in a locker room at Tuscarora High School.
Loudoun wineries come together to raise money for a partially quadriplegic winegrower so she can keep doing the work she loves; the Leesburg Town Council opens up Leesburg Executive Airport to international flights.
A budget crunch could mean higher real estate taxes next year; School Board member Eric DeKenipp resigns.
County supervisors and the Bob and Dee Leggett Foundation have assembled almost 900 acres for a state park in Loudoun; after a tough year, Loudoun wineries celebrate the Loudoun Wine Awards.
County leaders start the wheels turning on some ideas to encourage affordable housing; a deputy finds a human skull in the woods.
Purcellville residents will have to wait until spring for cell phone service to come back; incumbent Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk leads the field in campaign fundraising and spending.
Bullets and Beans will have to wait a little longer for a decision on the beans; a baseball legend is coming to Leesburg.
After an alleged sexual assault in a locker room involving members of the Tuscarora High School football team, administrators say the school is safe and the football team will continue to play; the Town of Purcellville will spend some money upgrading their police department.
County supervisors look ahead to a tough budget year; Loudoun's newest park formally opens in Round Hill.
Expanding Medicaid in Virginia will mean the county needs to hire 9 people; the Town of Round Hill is looking for a new town council member and planning commissioner.
Some of the most vulnerable Loudouners get around on four legs, and Loudoun County Animal Services goes the extra mile to help them out; elementary schools in the southeastern end of the county are overcrowded and getting more students than expected.
Two iconic, history Loudoun buildings get new life; the sheriff plans an opioid summit.
The latest round of Republican-led tax reform has got some nonprofit leaders worried what that will mean for charitable giving; a 14-year-old Woodgrove High School student makes her professional New York debut.
Loudouners living near farms complain about the use of treated sewage sludge as fertilizer; the name of Willard Intermediate School serves as a reminder to a community condemned and cleared away to make room for Dulles International Airport.
Leesburgers get a look at plans for the old C.S. Monroe Campus, which may soon have a new building and a different school.
Loudoun County supervisors see few options to fight a factory across the West Virginia border; a middle school dean is charged with assaulting a student who was vaping in a bathroom.
The Lovettsville Town Council will choose from among four people to fill two vacant seats, and some of those candidates are familiar; the man charged with making threats against a staff member at Lucketts Elementary—setting off protest from parents—is found not guilty.
The Loudoun Laurel Foundation welcomes the newest Loudoun Laureates; Lucketts Elementary School parents say they'll keep their kids out of school until the principal is put on leave.
The Coalition of Loudoun Towns has had a look at work on the new county comprehensive plan, and they're worried what it will mean for the west; the Leesburg Town Council gets behind an idea to help landowners afford to protect their land from development.
For the second year in a row, every public school in Loudoun is fully accredited; a meeting on plans for Rt. 15 brings out the divisions in that community.
The Loudoun County Farm Bureau vows to take the lead on Envision Loudoun; the Town of Leesburg moves to annex the land just purchased by Microsoft.
The school system equips more than 40,000 students with personal Chromebooks; Leesburgers rally to name an alley after a local icon.
Supervisors set targets for where they'd like to see a new bridge across the Potomac; Lovettsville moves to fill empty seats in the town government and town council.
Loudoun County supervisors will not push the General Assembly to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment; projects to widen Rt. 15 and Rt. 7 near Leesburg get rolling.
County supervisors are set to vote on controversial fixes for Rt. 15; Sen. Mark Warner calls for more federal transportation spending.
A $236.5 million sale of 424 acres at Dulles International Airport could be a payout for all of Loudoun; a 16-year-old from Leesburg is weighing offers from some of the top college basketball programs in the country.
The Academies of Loudoun reinvents the cafeteria; parents, students and staff at Creighton's Corner Elementary rally to collect cases of water for South Carolina.
Former Lovettsville council member Renee Edmonston says she left office after 67 days because of a fellow council member's "harsh, obvious and candid disrespect;" the Leesburg Town Council approves a memorial to Loudoun's lynchings.
For the first time in quite a while, new school enrollment is down; the Leesburg Town Council rejects a closed-door meeting with the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Supervisors approve a plan to bring a professional soccer team, stadium, and the D.C. United headquarters to Loudoun; a woman who went viral in a picture giving President Donald Trump's motorcade the bird will run for the Board of Supervisors.
The wheels could be turning for a business to give people golf cart rides around Leesburg, depending on the Town Council; Hamilton debates whether to allow coffee sales at a gun shop.
Florence is coming to town, so here's what to do; the person who built a multi-million dollar business out of community journalism and left his mark on Loudoun passes away.
Planning Commissioners debate doing away with the Transition Policy Area; a former insurance agent goes to federal prison for fraudulently trying to get someone else's life insurance benefits.
County supervisors ask federal legislators to legalize industrial hemp; School Board members and school administrators tackle attendance rates.
Loudoun lawmakers look for answers on plans for an insulation plant in West Virginia; Loudoun NAACP president Philip Thompson seeks a memorial to the three known lynchings in the county.
A 16-year-old marks his first solo flight; police investigate a string of robberies at 7-Eleven stores.
A Park View High School celebrity alum makes a surprise announcement; Heritage High School finally gets its artificial turf field.
Winemakers and brewers are starting to serve beer and wine side-by-side for the first time; K2M sells for $1.4 billion.
The Leesburg Town Council wants the option to study whether to become a city; the Loudoun General District Court debuts a mental health docket.
The state says the school system's policies on restraining and isolating special education students are okay; Old Ox Brewery spills over into a new tasting room and beer garden in Middleburg.
Sully Elementary celebrates 50 years since a hurried start; restaurant week continues with AhSo.
It's restaurant week, and Wine Kitchen Hearth & Steak in Purcellville is going out in style; Loudoun health department officials are looking for people who may have been exposed to measles. The Morning Minute is back!
At 15, Deirdre Jane Prigge becomes one of the youngest—if not the youngest—person to graduate from a Loudoun high school; After more than a decade, the school system gets ready to open the Academies of Loudoun.
For the ninth time in 105 years—and for the first time in 15 years—one of Loudoun's oldest and most historic businesses changes hands; if the county's new comprehensive plan stays on its current track, the School Board may need even more schools than they planned for.
Loudoun schools will let swing, see-saws and merry-go-rounds onto playgrounds; the Planning Commission considers where to put more housing.
The first Taste of Leesburg packs the streets; a judge hands down sentences adding up to 280 years for a teenager in a gang-related killing.
After years of planning and months of delay, Sleeter Lake Park will open this week; the Planning Commission tells the Board of Supervisors "we're done when we're done" with the new county comprehensive plan.
After years of work to get Hillsboro addresses recognized by the postal service again, some people outside town wish they hadn't; a Loudoun high school will, for the first time in its history, not field a varsity football team.
Plans for a factory in Ranson, WV have some Loudouners worried about air quality here; a Little League team from South Riding comes only one game short of playing in the World Series.
The estate of farmer, photographer and former county supervisor Henry C. Stowers sets up a scholarship; a woman is arrested near Leesburg for shooting her two children, one fatally.
39 more people make it to graduation at Briar Woods High School; Loudoun hits two major road milestones.
Local and state economic leaders says a dearth of technology workers is the biggest drag on the economy; a man in Purcellville can keep his meadow despite his HOA—for now.
Record-breaking rains have Loudoun farmers reeling; Loudoun County sets out to assess how much the opioid epidemic has cost the local taxpayer.
Purcellville Police Chief Cynthia McAlister is back on the job today—here's what it says in the 25-page report that cleared her; America's 9/11 Foundation rides again.
More than a year later, Purcellville Police Chief Cynthia McAlister is cleared of all wrongdoing and put back on the job; election season is starting in Loudoun County.
The county nears a deal on a proposal that could shape development around Loudoun's Metro stations into the future; the Town of Round Hill is looking for a logo.
Loudouners pack the Rust Library for Ending Violence Against Women in Loudoun; Governor Ralph Northam touts, among other things, the Metro funding bill at lunch with the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
The Planning Commission gets its turn at the county's rewrite of the comprehensive plan; Leesburg looks ahead to the next town budget.
A proposal to use public money to help pay for protecting land from development moves ahead; the Leesburg Planning Commission recommends taking the parking meters off of 37 street parking spaces downtown.
The Dulles Greenway proposes improvements at both ends of the toll road, and asks the county to help pay for one; Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Ralph Buona announces he will not seek a third term.
Loudoun leaders try to figure out new ways to bring more affordable housing to Loudoun; plans for a 19,000 square foot church in Aldie are approved.
The Loudoun Museum is closed after the executive director was fired and the remaining staff resigned; Loudoun welcomes Loudoun United FC for the first time.
An Ashburn theatre company is hit for a federal lawsuit for allegedly not paying licensing fees for years; Purcellville Town Manager David Mekarski says he needs more money to pay for moving expenses.
Middleburg and Lovettsville fill some empty seats in the town hall; a report on affordable housing in Loudoun raises questions of political will.
The county fires the contractor building the Kirkpatrick Fire and Rescue Station; the owner of the property at Rt. 15 and Evergreen Mill Road sues the Town of Leesburg.
Two years later, the county is officially done with the first phase of its 18-month comprehensive plan project; Leesburg signs off on a design for the most expensive transportation project in its history.
A contested appointment to one of the county's more than 40 advisory committees points to a deeper divide over development; a 99-year-old WWII veteran from Ashburn is now, apparently, a French knight.
The School Board considers whether to loosen up about which playground equipment should be allowed at schools; Loudoun Supervisor Tony Buffington proposes a program to help pay for protecting land from development in conservation easements.
Loudoun schools will get two new principals in the fall; two months after Sleeter Lake Park was scheduled to open, the town and HOA are still working things out before it can.
Sunset Hills Vineyard owner Diane Caney and the Friends of Leesburg Public Arts work to memorialize longtime downtown Leesburg business owner Stanley Caulkins with a bronze statue; county supervisors approve a controversial gas station on Rt. 15 north of Leesburg.
Meet the people who make the fireworks happen; Purcellville has plans to open up a town-owned property to hops farming, but finds out there's already a farmer there.
In Hillsboro, it's time to reclaim the Charles Town Pike; the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce signs onto a letter asking Congress to reclaim oversight over tariffs; Lovettsville declares Zoldos Day.
Purcellville's second try at an investigation into allegations against police chief Cynthia McAlister stretches into a new town council's term; Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (Orbital ATK until last month) proposes a rocket monument.
Months after some students were escorted out of school without warning, never to return, the School Board has voted to give the next class more time to graduate; Loudoun Planning Commissioners worry about parking and traffic around plans for a 5,000-seat professional soccer stadium at Philip A. Bolen Memorial Park south of Leesburg.
A study says the Town of Leesburg is understaffed; a new way to crowdfund lobbyists so the average American can afford to hire them launches.
Loudoun County finds 90 percent of its bus stops are not ADA-compliant; elementary students get more time for recess.
The county sets goals for expanding broadband and cell coverage, especially in western Loudoun; 30 years later, Loudoun may actually get an Ashburn Recreation and Community Center.
Round Hill looks to hire its first-ever public works director; rising high school seniors try their hand at trying a case at the 18th annual Thomas D. Horne Leadership in the Law program.
Supervisors back off tighter gun regulations, opting instead for a safety study; the county will look at putting homes some places they've never been before in Loudoun to encourage affordable housing.
The Housing Advisory Board says finding a home in Loudoun isn't just a problem for people with lower incomes; the developer at Westpark Golf Club proposes to give the golf course to the Town of Leesburg if the town to keep it open.
JK Moving founder Chuck Kuhn helps save a habitat for rare species near Lucketts; the comprehensive plan revision is almost ready for the next step.
The state passes a law that looks a lot like what happened at Dominion High School in 2016; the Loudoun sheriff and Leesburg chief of police balk at at 911 efficiency study.
Loudoun gets $337M for road projects; an 18-year-old is sentenced to 43 years in prison for a gang-related murder in 2016.
Some School Board members think it's time to give the School Board a raise; Discovery (as in the channel) plans to bring 240 jobs to Loudoun.
The School Board considers doubling the amount of recess time for students; the Town of Purcellville pays out $60,000 to Shaun Alexander Enterprises.
The stage is set for an election showdown in November; This week, nearly 6,000 people will start the next phase of their lives: graduating high school.
The school system's most vocal and controversial critic is elected president of the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents; Supervisor Ralph Buona tells the School Board "do your job" at Middleburg Community Charter School.
Tomorrow, voters will pick from the most crowded primary field in 10th Congressional District history; a former CIA case officer from Loudoun is convicted of espionage.
A Leesburg first-timer wins a statewide brewing gold medal; construction in Leesburg's historic district digs up human remains.
The Loudoun County Design Cabinet honors the late Frank Raflo for a "lifetime of vision;" Hillsboro puts out a recipe book with more recipes than there are residents.
Loudoun's School Resource Officers are named some of the best in the country; Capitalsville (The Town Formerly Known as Lovettsville)gets a visit and plans a viewing party.
Leesburg mayor Kelly Burk faces accusations of being drunk in public from an opponent in the mayoral race which she says are politically motivated; Lovettsville could be the next Loudoun town to grow its borders.
Potomac Vegetable Farms launches Roots to Rise to educate and empower teen girls; Leesburgers debate a proposed commercial center next to Meadowbrook Farms.
Northern Virginia Community College gets set to train students to work in Loudoun's booming data center market; the General Assembly expands Medicaid in Virginia and funds every empty judgeship in the state.
An Eagle Scout project builds a gravel road 400 feet into the Belmont slave cemetery and more than 100 years into the past; a trial in a fatal crash ends with a hung jury.
If the Capitals win tonight, Lovettsville could soon be renamed Capitalsville; the School Board votes to send students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology for another year.
The state senate could vote today to fund every empty judgeship in the commonwealth—and expand Medicaid in Virginia; Buzzed at the Bee is back.
More than 30 years after a landfill was closed because of groundwater contamination, the homes next door could be getting public water; a man who has changed the hearts of minds of 200 former KKK members comes to town to speak.
Two places in Loudoun are named among the most endangered historic sites in the state; a man accused of sending a fellow bicyclist to the hospital is found in part through an app on his phone.
Save Rural Loudoun forms to protect farmlands and open spaces; a woman asks a deputy for directions and ends up arrested for public intoxication and carrying six pounds of marijuana.
The county works to launch a stewardship program for its government-owned historic properties; Leesburg is still debating allowing food trucks downtown.
A proposal to demolish a horse farm from the 1920s to build 129 houses has some people wondering if Leesburg should expand its historic district; a piece of Bluemont history reopens after more than 70 years.
AT&T gets a chance to defend its plans for a 155-foot cell tower on top of Short Hill Mountain; a man who may have been trying for a life insurance payout is sentenced in a fatal crash.
Loudoun's Department of Economic Development and some of its farmers think industrial hemp will be the next big thing; the School Board narrows down options for naming the county's newest elementary school.
Loudoun gets a new fire chief; and the county can't seem to give away tourism grant funding.
Five months after Purcellville privatized managing Fireman's Field, the town gets a request for reimbursement—and it's nearly $30,000 bigger than the town expected; a Loudoun middle school soccer player makes history.
The Loudoun Advisory Commission on Youth finds on-time graduation slipping and school absenteeism on the rise; JK Community Farm starts planting.
Hillsboro could be the first place in Loudoun to feel the state's cut to regional transportation funding; Loudoun could try to gobble up transportation funding from other projects across the state after that cut.
Round Hill establishes its identity as the place to go outside; county supervisors sign off on a kennel and animal hospital across the Leesburg Bypass from Leesburg's Foxridge neighborhood.
Federal regulations threaten 150 jobs for people with disabilities at a Leesburg nonprofit; two years later, the Envision Loudoun stakeholders committee has the first draft of Loudoun's next comprehensive plan.
Loudoun's towns vote to keep their incumbent mayors; the Chamber of Commerce will host the top executives of Metrorail and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to talk about transportation in the region.
It's Give Choose! Plus, the Planning Commission signs off on a large gas station on Rt. 15 north of Leesburg.
A Loudoun case sets a new court precedent for prosecutors going after domestic abusers; a test of the visual impact of a proposed 155-foot tower on top of Short Hill Mountain is called off due to wind.
A Circuit Court jury hands down a guilty sentence in a 30-year-old murder; the Leesburg Town council signs off on an interchange and a detour on Battlefield Parkway.
A new department at Inova Loudoun Hospital's Cornwall campus brings services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence to Leesburg; the school system shuffles three school principals.
The School Board hangs on to universal full-day kindergarten for next year; county supervisors push for a database of every active and inactive cemetery in the county.
A $5M lawsuit against a guidance counselor in a teenager's suicide is withdrawn; the Leesburg Planning Commission considers 64 townhouses on Edwards Ferry Road near Costco.
Did you check out the Flower and Garden Festival? We did! Plus, the School Board says full-day kindergarten may be on the chopping block after all.
The Purcellville Police Department is the first town police force in Loudoun to issue naloxone to its officers; the Town of Leesburg and one of its big HOAs wind up in court over a dam.
Plans for a 3,700-home development between two future Metro stations could force county leaders to start making some decisions about Metro planning; 9,000 students will take part in this year's We're All Human walks and assemblies.
The murder trial for a West Virginia man who died 30 years ago begins; supervisors move to require short-term residential rental owners (like Airbnb hosts) register with the county annually.
Two months after teachers raised the alarm about changes to Monroe Tech, school administrators say they've heard the concerns; county supervisors try to put fake going-out-of-business sales out of business.
Schools Superintendent Eric Williams says he has a way to cut $14.9M from the school budget without taking it out of class size, mental health services or full-day kindergarten; starting today, bus rides to Metro stops are free.
JK Moving launches JK Community Farm, which will donate its produce and meat to charity; the Victims Services Awards recognize people have helped fellow Loudouners in their hour of need.
After an outside investigation, Purcellville fires senior staffer and lets two other go back to work; Leesburg settles on a level tax rate.
Governor Ralph Northam proposes switching up the General Assembly's Metro funding bill to restore some funding for regional transportation projects; two Loudoun deputies describe in court the incident in which they were shot on Christmas Eve.
Supervisors approve a data center complex surrounding a cemetery; Loudoun County Public Schools announces its educators of the year.
Leesburg could be on track for another shopping center, over the objections of its neighbors; a Lovettsville student wins third place in a C-SPAN documentary contest.
Loudoun could—maybe—be in line for more than $300 million in road project grants; your phone probably went off yesterday, and not just because you're so popular.
The School Board is talking about surplussing the Middleburg Community Charter School to the town—but that town of 800 people may not be able to afford the building at any price.
Supervisors have their first-ever unanimous vote on a county budget; after four decade, the Bluemont Concert Series shuts down.
AT&T proposes a cell tower on top of Short Hill Mountain; good news for people on the health insurance exchange in Loudoun; time to name an elementary school.
The Loudoun County Combined Fire-Rescue System honors some of its best and bravest; schools in Leesburg team up to bring the Harlem Wizards to Leesburg to raise money for Team Mathias.
22-year-old Purcellville native Brittany Basinger is chasing her dream of playing soccer professionally around the world; a man is convicted in a shooting at a music festival in Aldie last year.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao visits to celebrate a $25M federal grant; the Loudoun Education Foundation is working to erase more than $200,000 of students' school meal debt.
Leesburg Town Manager Kaj Dentler warns the Town Council if they cut taxes, "we will bleed to death slowly;" accolades keep pouring in for retiring Fire-Rescue System Chief W. Keith Brower Jr.
Northern Virginia jurisdictions and business leaders call on the state to restore regional transportation funding and put more money into Metro; county supervisors kill controversial soccer field plans.
A grand jury finds a food truck driver guilty on all counts related to a fatal crash on Evergreen Mills Road; Northern Virginia leaders call on the state to put more state money into Metro, instead of stripping regional transportation funding.
County supervisors clear the way for a 4-cent real estate tax cut by carving $4.1M from the school system's budget request; Purcellville's interim town manager suggests a higher cigarette tax and two new police officers.
Loudoun County government loans $2.5M to build some affordable apartments; the state's budget impasse is not expected to stop the county from passing its own budget.
A developer's plans to disinter human remains to make way for a development are called "perfectly legal, profoundly immoral;" a Herndon man is arrested and charged with shooting a mother and her son in their home in Aldie over narcotics.
The trial of the food truck driver whose truck killed Erin Kaplan on Evergreen Mill Road begins; taxes could be going up in Purcellville. And happy first day of spring!
Friday night, a person fired several shots into the air at One Loudoun, kicking off a police search; the Lovettsville Town Council appoints a new member.
A month after a deadly school shooting in Floriday, the Loudoun County School Board reviews its own safety policies; the Leesburg Town Council says yes to a better Rt. 15/N. King St. intersection and no to paying for it.
Thousands of Loudoun students walk out to call for tighter gun laws, despite threatened disciplinary action; Town residents could soon see one tax bill instead of two.
After ten months and four temporary fill-ins, Purcellville hires a new town manager; county supervisors tentatively support a half-million-dollar mental health program for first responders.
The General Assembly passes a bill that strips transportation funding in Northern Virginia to pay for Metro; the school system asks the state to investigate its isolation and restraint of special needs students.
Lovettsville could get a new council member this week, and the first real estate tax cut in years this year; a man from West Virginia is sentenced in a fatal crash on Rt. 15.
Loudoun Department of Economic Development Rural Development Officer Kellie Hinkle comes on to talk rural business; county supervisors start work to clear the regulatory path to bringing D.C. United to Philip A. Bolen Memorial Park.
It's shaping up to be an interesting year for town elections; a retiree from Sterling claims her $3 million lottery prize just before it expires.
County supervisors will spend the next month deciding what your local government will and will not do for you—and how much it will cost you.
As the schools get ready for student walkouts, Loudoun Youth Inc. and IndED are putting on three forums on school safety; about 17,500 people lost power in that storm.
Parents say kids with special needs in the school system have been shut in small, unfurnished rooms for hours at a time; the School Board abandons a policy to guide closing school buildings.
Halfway through the General Assembly session, Democratic state legislators hold town halls in Loudoun; Loudoun's charter schools get more applications than they have seats, and the waitlist is growing.
Lovettsville's Planning Commission chair is dismissed, and the vice chair resigns; Loudoun could build a Rt. 50 alternative on airport property.
School leaders want security vestibules at every school entrance, and county supervisors are looking for funding to make that happen ASAP; the schools and county government are looking at a partnership that could end up extending broadband internet into rural Loudoun.
The success of Monroe Tech is part of the reason for the Academies of Loudoun, but opening the Academies of Loudoun will mean cutting two dozen classes at Monroe Tech in half; a quiet change to Leesburg's HUBZone could make a big difference for local business.
This weekend, a gym designed for kids with autism is opening in Sterling; a key House of Delegate committee strips funding for a fourth Circuit Court judge in Loudoun.
Purcellville closes in on hiring a new town manager; the county Board of Supervisors changes the look of the county's biggest road.
After a decade of debate over where to put a new Aldie fire station, the county says there's just no better option than the one they have now; hours after people in Lansdowne gave supervisors an earful over plans to put 101 townhouses at the National Conference Center, the National changes its application.
The school system has a plan to offer a full day of kindergarten to every family next year, but it could mean some of those kindergartners see larger class sizes; Purcellville Mayor Kwasi Fraser faces a challenger in the May election.
Loudouners stand to get a 3.5-cent tax cut this year—but any more, warns the county's top administrator, could mean trouble for public services; the Town of Leesburg adopts an "anti-hate statement" in reaction to KKK fliers appearing in town.
David Becker, one of Loudoun's 12 original professional firefighters, is also one of Virginia's Outstanding Crossing Guards of the Year; Loudoun is building a lot of roads. Like, a heck of a lot of roads.
For sale? One international airport, one owner, recent improvements and room to grow; the new Vet Center Community Access Center in Leesburg opens.
With Leesburg's special election, it's time to get ready for western town elections in May; Loudoun stands to lose 109 Affordable Dwelling Units by the end of the year.
A change in policy at Loudoun County Public Schools means dozens of students won't be graduating; Kincora gets a second museum.
Suzie Bartel is taking her work to prevent teen suicide outside the school building; a decorated Army veteran accused of shooting two Loudoun deputies is denied bond.
Leesburg gets its newest council member; a Sterling man with alleged links to ISIS is charged with obstructing a terrorism investigation.
Trader Joe's may actually be coming to One Loudoun; John Miller asks for work release after being given a year in jail.
The School Board hopes for full-day kindergarten for every family next year; the Sheriff's Office offers a reward for tips in what looks like a target double homicide.
Conflicting federal regulations threaten 150 jobs for people with disabilities at Every Citizen Has Opportunity; Loudoun's Olympic delegation is going for green.
Loudoun's freshmen legislators have jumped into the fray in the General Assembly; county transportation staff recommend some short-term improvements for Sycolin Road.
Tolls are going up on the Greenway again; a study finds Loudouners lag behind on charitable giving.
The 2019 race for Board of Supervisors is off to an early start; a man is arrested in Texas for a 2015 assault that left a teen paralyzed.
The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce celebrates 50 years; the Planning Commission looks at an application to build the biggest gas station in Loudoun County on Rt. 15.
Leesburg Town Council members tell county supervisors: If you're going to build that stadium, make sure you build the roads for it. John Miller IV gets a year in jail.
Broadband internet comes to Hillsboro; the School Board debates how it decides whether to close down a school.
Good news for Rt. 7 commuters; the Leesburg Town Council will once again consider allowing food trucks more places in Leesburg.
Van Metro proposes a 200,000 square foot shopping center in Leesburg; Loudoun heads toward a program to finance clean energy projects.
On the school system's wishlist or next year: More security, new security equipment, and contracting private security; county supervisors take the next step to bring D.C. United to Loudoun.
County supervisors approve a data center complex on the banks of Goose Creek; Northern Virginia (probably meaning Loudoun) is on Amazon's short list for its new headquarters.
Four months after unveiling a renovated, 126-year-old one-room schoolhouse, the Loudoun School for the Gifted breaks ground on a new school; a behavioral health care center employee is charged in the death of a teenaged patient.
A proposal to pay for Metro could end up raising taxes and stripping transportation funding in Loudoun; Purcellville hires a different retired police chief to oversee the audit of the investigation into its police chief.
A year after the School Board voted not to protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, LGBT advocates haven't given up; the Planning Commission votes no on a controversial application to put a day care in Old Ashburn.
The Board of Supervisors takes the first public steps to bring a professional soccer team to Loudoun; Leesburg will be getting 59 new townhouses; and the county moves ahead with widening Rt. 15.
Purcellville fills another empty seat on an interim basis; Loudoun has the first chairman on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments since 1983.
The school superintendent lays out his $1.2 billion spending plan; dirt is moving at the future campus of Paul VI Catholic High School.
This afternoon, we'll get a look from the county's largest single employer at the county government's largest expense: The school budget. And school's delayed two hours today, go back to bed.
Two Loudoun middle schoolers are among only 35 people statewide who will be going to Richmond as House of Delegates pages this year; the new year brings some change in leadership on the Board of Supervisors.
Next year's budget could come with a tax cut; a woman is sentenced to four years in prison over the overdose death of her friend.
Loudoun County increases by half the funding it sets aside for nonprofits; two more Purcellville town employees are placed on leave.
Commuters on the Dulles Greenway could be getting good news about congestion; Middleburg mulls over what to do about restaurant garbage piling up.
DC United could soon find a new home in Loudoun; a Leesburg brewer hopes to show the town council the value of food trucks downtown.
Loudoun's court system could be getting some much-needed help; Washington football safety Su'a Cravens says he was racially profiled by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.
An audit of school system finances turns up wide disparities in activities funds; Leesburg warns some residents to boil their water before drinking it.
Hamilton could lead the charge for the first speed cameras in Virginia; Sam Finz loses the "interim" from "interim town manager" in Lovettsville.
A Board of Supervisors committee ushers the data center on Goose Creek toward approval; the Salvation Army puts gifts under the tree for 1,500 kids.
Three new Lucketts Elementary School classrooms are one step closer to reality; Helicopter Santa, gone since the 1980s, is coming back to Virginia Village in Leesburg.
The other educators push for a living wage; presumptive Speaker-Designee Kirk Cox (R-66) talks about the newly reshaped House of Delegates at the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
In its 35th year, the Excellence in Education banquet honors 325 Loudoun students; be careful with those heaters and fireplaces.
Purcellville hires a law firm; Loudoun Sheriff Michael Chapman faces a second wrongful termination lawsuit. The Morning Minute is back!
Supervisors look set to approve a data center complex on Goose Creek; Carfentanil, the strongest commercial opioid, ID'd in Loudoun ODs for the first time.
Loudoun drops $3.7M for a school site at Belmont Ridge and Waxpool; and longtime downtown Leesburg landmark says goodbye.
Leesburgers get a peek at the future of the Westpark golf club; the Town of Purcellville launches a third investigation.
The first arguments are filed in the appeal of a $6.3M lawsuit against Sheriff Michael Chapman and the county; and the ACLU argues in a 1st Amendment case against Chair Phyllis Randall.
An army of Loudoun nonprofits band together to fight childhood obesity; the School Board says it needs to get some schools open sooner than planned.
It's a banner year for tourism in Leesburg; the School Board backs off making Willard middle school an intermediate school.
Loudoun Schools are trying to get class sizes down, so how's that going? And students will have a little less time off next winter break.
Tonight, the School Board wrestles with what to do about crowded schools in southern Loudoun; so far, so good on the county budget.
Purcellville Police Chief Cynthia McAlister is back; two parents honored for saving a teacher's life.
Purcellville's going through some stuff. Here's what we know so far. Plus, Wegmans is coming to Arcola Center.
Ability Fitness Center opens at Paxton Campus; Less than a year into his first term, Leesburg councilman Ron Campbell announces he will run for mayor.
The investigation into the former Purcellville Police Chief gets its own investigation; and a proposed data center on Goose Creek draws public outcry.
Three familiar faces are already lined up to try for Ken Reid's seat on Leesburg Town Council; a diagnosed schizophrenic is alleged to have bought a shotgun in a parking lot, killed his father, and burned down the house.
Food trucks are now allowed in some parts of Leesburg—just not the parts that were asking for them; the town council moves to fill Ken Reid's seat as soon as possible.
As Leesburg's newest council member swears in, one of its oldest council members steps out; a wreck on Rt. 9 kills a woman from Gainesville.
Five indictments in the crash that killed Erin Kaplan; supervisors move ahead with a plan to give more elderly and disabled people a break on taxes, but it's a little complicated.
The lawsuit over who has to spend $1M to fix a dam has its first day in court; county supervisors debate whether they should, in fact, stay in their lane.
The Democratic sweep reached the Leesburg Town Council race; county supervisors look at crosswalks on Rt. 7.
After election day, only one Republican delegate is left standing in Loudoun; the Envision Loudoun committee asks its members to "trust the process" and supervisors to "stay in your lane."
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The Loudoun Chamber of Commerce celebrates small businesses and entrepreneur at its annual awards; the Loudoun Impact Fund awards more than $106K to charities.
Purcellville fires its police chief; Loudoun Rotarians donate $10K to hurricane relief.
The Purcellville Town Council votes "no confidence" in their police chief, and five schools in Dulles may need to open sooner than expected.
Bike TrAle Brewing opens in Leesburg (and it's good); a man is charged with murdering his wife; Purcellville takes the first step to town-wide wi-fi.
Loudoun marks Military Appreciation Day; Ed Gillespie brings Marco Rubio to Loudoun; and Happy Halloween!
After a stinging rebuke, the Envision Loudoun stakeholders committee takes stock; the sheriff's office investigates an apparent domestic homicide.
New regulations headed for Airbnb hosts; Leesburg Councilman Tom Dunn talks corruption around an airport commission request.
Kelli Grim resigns from the Purcellville Town Council; the top of the state Democratic ticket stumps in Leesburg to talk about health.
Loudoun supervisors looks at a green energy financing program; could West Park Golf Club be Leesburg's next park?
Supervisors take the first step to fix Rt. 15 (and call out Del. Dave LaRock and Sen. Dick Black); parents brace to send their kids to different schools as the school system prepares for Goshen Post Elementary.
Loudoun starts work on next year's budget at a tax cut; The Briar Woods Falcons raise more than $4,300 for the Kaplan family.
Parents worry about the schools slimming down allergy guidelines; investigators look for witnesses to a fatal crash.
The county government tries some new tactics to work on Loudoun's lack of affordable housing; Briar Woods High School turns a volleyball game into a fundraiser for the Kaplan family.
The school system reshuffles elementary schoolers to get ready for Goshen Post; Hal and Berni Hanson Regional Park will cost $15M more than expected.
Sunset Hills Vineyard officially makes the best wine in Loudoun; a capital murder indictment in the death of Nabra Hassanen.
County supervisors deadlock on next year's tax rate; the $6.3M lawsuit against the sheriff is dismissed and appealed; the sinkhole at Exeter is not a sinkhole.
The $6.3 million wrongful termination lawsuit against Sheriff Michael Chapman is dismissed; Goshen Post Elementary has its first principal.
The Academies of Loudoun building is unveiled; the Arc of Loudoun breaks ground on the Aurora Behavior Clinic; Councilwoman Kelli Grim could be done on the Purcellville Town Council at the end of the month.
Loudoun will send students to Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria for at least one more year; John Miller IV is found guilty of misdemeanors in the death of infant Tristan Schulz in a crosswalk.
The School Board votes whether to stop sending students to Thomas Jefferson; a nonprofit needs survey leaves out disabilities.
The $6.3M lawsuit against Sheriff Chapman has its day in court; the Purcellville police chief on indefinite leave, and nobody will say why.
Supervisors say the comprehensive plan review is "way off track;" Leesburg hears the town is taking off, but hard to do business with.
Weeks of mourning and activism after four deaths on Evergreen Mills Road turn into action in the boardroom; candidates for House of Delegates face off at the League of Women Voters. And tonight's the second Buzzed at the Bee!
Loudoun is the biggest data center market in the world, and the Department of Economic Development wants to make sure it stays that way; on-time high school graduation rates in Loudoun dip, but remain above the state average.
150 years of history at the Union Street school are one step closer to being reborn; the Commonwealth's Attorney says the sheriff was not truthful in a sworn declaration to a federal court.
The Makersmiths get new digs in Leesburg; the Purcellville Sea Cadets named best in the nation.
Leesburg Police is full of female firsts; the food truck driver in a deadly crash says his brakes failed and her narrowly missed hitting a school bus.
Ivanka Trump, Microsoft president Brad Smith, and tech investor and Code.org founder Hadi Partovi talk classrooms and coding at Middleburg Community Charter School; Lucketts Elementary School could finally get some relief from the crowding.
Advocates for minority students recognized; Shoe's Cup and Cork and WK Hearth are back open; and welcome to 27 new American citizens!
A review of Loudoun nonprofit needs finds what they've been saying all along: they need more money. Loudoun sex education will cover human trafficking and dating violence next year.
The Loudoun Museum turns a corner; Kaiser continues his four-year reign at the Lovettsville Oktoberfest Weiner dog races. Brought to you by Eyetopia Inc.
Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld and Loudoun supervisors say it's legislators' turn to step up to the plate; the Purcellville Town Council is working on changes to policy on development in town.
For now, the Confederate memorial at the courthouse in Leesburg isn't going anywhere; Loudoun tackles its pay scale problems.
After four deaths in six weeks, Loudoun pushes to fix a dangerous road; two nonprofits could get tax exemptions.
Northrup Grumman buys Sterling-based Orbital ATK for $9.2 billion; Estelle Keen turns 107 years old. (She says the secret is to be nice.)
After a vandalism last year, the 1892 Ashburn Colored School gets a new lease on life; candidates for House of Delegates go to a speed-dating-style forum with the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
Kindergartners writing computer code. Third graders playing chess blindfolded. All in a day's work at three Loudoun elementary schools. Plus, Inova breaks ground on a new seven-story patient tower in Lansdowne.
For the first time in five years, all 89 Loudoun public schools are fully accredited; the Leesburg Town Council could allow food trucks on any private property in town.
A county supervisor says the Confederate monument at the courthouse must stand, but might need some company; Loudoun creates a committee to help chase a deal for Amazon's new HQ.
The former Loudoun detective suing the sheriff and county for $6.35 million for wrongful termination asks the court for summary judgment; Waterford learns about the history of black people in the village; Democratic first ladies talk education and Ralph Northam in Leesburg.
A photographer uses her talents to recognize 100 of Loudoun's lesser-known heroes; One woman is killed and four are injured when a converted bus hits their station wagon; A church in Brownsville turns 125.
Parents at Lucketts Elementary School are feeling left behind, and they're letting the School Board and Board of Supervisors know about it; Loudoun could make a bid for Amazon's $5 billion East Coast headquarters.
Mental health professionals pitch big ideas for what the county could be doing to curb teen suicide; Loudoun County Parkway is finally complete; supervisors send $5.4 million to fix the Pennington Garage project; the schools have logged 1,385 grievances about buses in the first two weeks of school. Oh, and something about a spelling bee?
A long-awaited school in Loudoun doubles in size; the Waterford Foundation opens black historic sites to tours. Plus a spelling bee!
Prosecutors drop manslaughter charges against the man accused hitting Mindy Schulz and her infant son Tristan in a crosswalk in Lansdowne; a sinkhole under a parking garage project is expected to cost the county $3.5 million and five months of delay.
A hole in the ground is turning into a lush, shaded pool in Broadlands; Sen. Tim Kaine spends a morning in Leesburg visiting businesses and talking health insurance.
Loudoun businesses pitch in from 1,000 miles way to help Hurricane Harvey's victims; Loudoun's two charter academies both have new principals.
Loudoun County government and Sheriff Mike Chapman want a $6M lawsuit for political retaliation dismissed; deputies are looking for possible witnesses to Leesburg's Confederate statue vandals.
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Two Loudoun lawsuits testing the First Amendment on social media get appeals; Shoes Cup & Cork is temporarily closed after a fire in the kitchen.
The first day of school bus rides goes... okay; Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says Loudoun's Confederate monument is protected by state law.
More than 80,700 students get up for the first day of school; Angel Cerritos' 13-year climb puts him at the head of the Loudoun YMCA.
A 15-year-old entrepreneur pitches tech executives an idea for a piece of jewelry that comes with piece of mind; The National Conference Center proposes a land swap at Riverside High School.
The sheriff's office is looking for whoever vandalized Leesburg's Confederate monument; the Leesburg Town Council could be headed fro a food fight.
Some elected officials want Loudoun to have the right to take down war monuments if it wants—say, for example, the Confederate monument in Leesburg. A Loudoun jail contractors is under FBI investigation in Norfolk.
The schools could need $100 million more next year; after three years of growth, SOL scores are holding steady.
More than 800 new teachers get ready for the first day of class; the reaction to the violence and racism that came to Charlottesville continues here in Loudoun.
The day after "Unite the Right" violence in Charlottesville, Loudouners gather for a vigil; Leesburg businesses will be getting citations for hosting food trucks.
It's Friday, so let's talk wine—the Loudoun Wineries Association announces the third annual Loudoun Wine Awards winners; the Ashburn Rotary donates 1,200 backpacks full of school supplies to needy kids at 60 Loudoun elementary schools.
A plan to fund Metro like most big organizations are funded; a quicker process for redrawing the map of which households go to which schools.
Rep. Barbara Comstock, Sheriff Mike Chapman, and a host of other elected officials gather to figure out how to work together against the opioid epidemic; Loudoun little leaguers finish just short of playing in the Little League World Series; Loudoun theater programs win too many awards to fit into the podcast.
School leaders say bus trips will be better this year; Rep. Barbara Comstock faces a challenge from the right; the county offers loans for first-time homebuyers.
34 people graduate from Loudoun County Public School's summer school; the Purcellville Cannons rack up one last win with an all-star pitcher.
Loudoun schools tackle increased teen suicides; Loudoun Literacy takes English lessons out of the classroom and into the workplace.
Loudoun's hospitality industry lays out the welcome mat for people with autism; a Leesburg-area man is charged with fatally shooting his father and burning down the house.
Two different rulings on lawsuits by a Loudoun man mean the rules are still unclear answer on the First Amendment on social media; a Sterling man is charged with soliciting sex from a juvenile he met while volunteering at a summer camp.
A woman and two children missing since Friday's torrential rains turn up in an overturned car in Sycolin Creek; Leesburg is officially onboard with the county taking over tax billing.
Record ecumenic development, Loudoun County Fair's Kiss A Pig winners, burglary suspects nabbed.
Loudoun is having a restaurant boom, but nobody who works at a restaurant can afford to live in Loudoun; Dr. Sam Adamo retires after 20 years of leading school system planning; Ed Gillespie stops in Leesburg.
Four Loudoun wineries are up for sale; investigators find a body after a Lucketts house fire; a former FC Barcelona player visits young fans at Evergreen SportsPlex.
A $6M lawsuit against the sheriff alleging political retaliation; the Leesburg budget is in better shape than expected; county supervisors vote to keep union materials out of new hire packets.
Window stickers are over; more than 135 people ill from a Chipotle; Fractured Prune comes to Leesburg; the first Tour de ECHO.
Loudoun leaders say no to a Metro sales tax, but say they have a better idea; Nonprofit leaders get a chance for the same kind of executive training they would get at for-profit corporations.
Supervisors approve that big raise; Maryland shows a divided front on the bridge question; an electrical fire evacuates the Loudoun County Government Center.
A circuit court judge weighs a tough request in case of an infant killed in a crosswalk; the Loudoun Sheriff's officer who got carjacked was no rookie; Melanie Natoli of Cana Vineyards is the 2017 Woman Winemaker of the Year.
When sports tournaments come to Loudoun, Loudoun wins; a jury hands down 132 years for a tire thief; the Montgomery County Council is unanimously opposed to a new bridge (still).
30 Loudoun high schoolers get a college crash course (and college credit); the Belmont Ridge Road bridge is open; a Loudoun auctioneer takes second place at the International Auctioneer Championships—who knew?
A Loudoun Sheriff's officer gets caught up in a carjacking; Lovettsville has a full council; Round Hill might not be the smallest town for long.
Say goodbye to window decals (unless you're in Hamilton or Purcellville); the Middleburg mayoral races heats up.
Loudoun's first manslaughter conviction for sharing heroin; supervisors duke it out over raises.
The people shaping Loudoun's future grapple with 1,200 policies from its past; a record-setting astronaut urges young women to aim high.
Ten orphans from Colombia are having a vacation in the area—and hope to call it home; construction fumes shut down Dulles International, Reagan National, and BWI.
Elementary schoolers in southeast Loudoun get reshuffled; the county could do a huge survey of safety on rural roads; the Cannons send players to the Valley League all-star game and the Southern Collegiate Showcase.
Loudoun supervisors warn Leesburg those federal dollars might not be worth it; 40 Loudoun schools are named among the top 100 in the state.
Leesburg takes another look at funding parking; Loudoun could formally oppose a new Metro-area sales tax.
The Morning Minute takes a day off. Here's a great 242nd year of the United States of America!
Supervisors make a new Potomac River bridge a priority; Leesburg police get body and car cameras; happy Independence Day!
The fashion police (you know—the school board) have made their ruling on the dress code; nearly 900 new laws went into effect Saturday; the look of Rt. 7 could be changing.
A new bill seeks to keep kids out of prison by keeping them in school; a third contender in the special election for a seat on the Leesburg Town Council; it's the last day to vote for Loudoun's Favorites.
People in Loudoun's towns could get one real estate tax bill instead of two, but it's a long way from here to there; Loudoun has its first Title I secondary schools.
The county holds a meeting on solving Rt. 15 congestion and things get a little shouty; the class of 2017 wins $55 million in scholarships; fresh crabs are coming to Leesburg.
A reversal on noise around Dulles Airport; Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) faces yet another challenger for her seat; a Loudouner strikes it lucky in the lotto.
Loudoun nonprofits breathe a sigh of relief—for now; a major campaign donor wins a contract with the sheriff's office; full-day kindergarten is on its way, but it might come with more attendance map changes.
Romp-hims at the School Board; a new Loudoun Hops Association; international espionage in Leesburg.
While the community mourns Nabra Hassanen, prosecutors get to work bringing her alleged killer to justice; Loudoun Cares makes its final fundraising push for June.
A major shakeup to county nonprofit grants has Loudoun's nonprofit community worried; Leesburg's longest-serving police chief passes away; time to sign up for the Fourth of July parade in Leesburg.
A daughter asks for help solving her father's 25-year-old cold case murder; the contract to provide medical and psychiatric care for inmates come under questioning.
Loudoun County is ready for a drug court whenever the state legislature is ready to give us back that fourth judgeship; the Loudoun community puts on a show of support for the ADAMS Center community after a 17-year-old member of their congregation is murdered; and a 93-year-old Leesburg woman tries for a world record with her talent for gnilleps sdrow sdrawkcab.
Loudoun may soon have its first Title I secondary schools; the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority pick a spot for a new bridge over the Potomac.
The Leesburg Town Council honors a local legend; the School Board looks to put dual-enrollment classes on a level footing with advanced placement classes.
Supervisors say it's time for a raise; how Loudoun stacked up against the rest of the state in the primaries; the School Board approves a new JROTC program at Dominion High School.
More than 5,000 Loudouners are no longer high schoolers; the Freedom High School Odyssey of the Mind team wins the world championship; supervisors take another look at tax relief for the elderly and disabled. And we don't really sing on this podcast, but we have a guest singer anyway.
A $20 million fundraiser for Inova Loudoun Hospital gets a big head start at the historic Selma mansion; the county chips in to help get a high-tech new type of control tower at Leesburg Executive Airport.
The man accused of shooting a 17-year-old Park View High School student near a bus stop is headed to prison; Lost Rhino partners with the Tedeschi Trucks Band for a charitable cause.
Bob Klancher is remembered with a Signatures of Loudoun Lifetime Achievement Award. Loudoun's agricultural leaders announce the New Ag School. Madeleine Albright reflects on American leadership. Two Loudoun breweries win first place—again. Renss can't read a calendar.
Some of Loudoun County's oldest records—as in before-the-American-Revolution-ended old—get new life; Blue Ridge Middle School students pave the way with coding classes.
The school system loses a top administrator (again); the Purcellville Cannons start their season with a shutout win.
A country estate near Middleburg becomes a farm to feed low-income kids in DC; Fifth graders at Madison's Trust Elementary work to restore the habitats damaged by the construction of their own school; Sam Bartram comes on to tell us about Sam's Weekend Picks from Get Out Loudoun.
More than 100 CAMPUS students braved more than a thunderstorm to get to their graduation; the race for a Leesburg town council seat starts to get crowded.
Four high school seniors who beat the odds; The George Washington University stands by a controversial study.
After 3,516 years at Loudoun County Public Schools, it's time to retire; supervisors honor two historic black scholars.
Loudoun is the home of two new programs to study autism and help people with autism spectrum disorder get ready for life in college and after school; baseball is back!
For students who rely on the school cafeteria for meals, summer break can be a hungry time; Chairwoman Phyllis Randall says Loudoun is "on the cusp of an exciting future" in her second State of the County Address.
The county's bus plans leave out a sleepy little place we call Ashburn; the Rock Ridge graduating class has completed 140 years of college credit.
The Loudoun Sheriff's Office leads the charge against the opioid epidemic with a new training video with Attorney General Mark Herring; Middleburg Community Charter School has its third principal in as many years.
A $31 million dollar fix for Route 15 traffic; the last four Loudoun high schools get their turf fields.
Hillsboro is in Purcellville, if you ask the postal service; the power plant in Leesburg opens up; a sad epilogue to the cow story.
Loudoun's exploding brewery scene gets together for Loudoun Small Business Week; Ashburn Elementary schoolers are reading superstars.
Students and legislators get creative to tackle distracted driving; a Freedom High School senior pulls of Pride Prom in a big way.
A new bridge over the Potomac? How about two? And an Ashburn entrepreneur and parent racks up more awards for her business.
Leesburg embarks on its most expensive interchange project ever; Falcons Landing wins approval for its big plans.
The School Board looks for ways to make bus rides shorter; Leesburg Executive Airport tries to get air traffic control.
Supervisors wonder if it's time to give themselves a raise; a Stone Bridge High School swimming standout is athlete of the year in college.
The Purcellville Town Council picks an interim town manager, and it's not who you might expect; hard-hitting moos reporting from the streets of Leesburg.
Leesburg gets a little love—or was that a giant, seven-foot-tall love made of steel; a man tries to bite a Loudoun County deputy; the King of Sweden stops by Janelia Research Campus.
Purcellville finds a way to avoid higher taxes and water rates, but that doesn't come free; Tom Perriello comes through Loudoun again; law enforcement collects a half-ton of drugs.
Comstock breaks with the party on healthcare; a problem for bringing a new business to Loudoun: where are the employees going to live?
Good news on the decades-old EPA Superfund site landfill near the Potomac River; the Purcellville Town Council weighs whether it can really afford a 24/7 police department.
A family in Loudoun gets closure eight years after a murder; the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition is worried a housing study will open up the county to lots of new homes.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue visits Catoctin Elementary to relax school lunch regulations; Loudoun Valley High School mourns the loss of longtime custodian Freddie Wright while celebrating its first state boys basketball championship.
A Smarts Mill Middle School student is Loudoun's Volunteer of the Year; Welcome home, Jonathan Allen.
The hands-on Children's Science Museum, and the what those young scientists think about it; Delirium Café in Leesburg gets ready to open.
The end of an era in Purcellville; the School Board cuts $5.5 million from its spending plan.
Leesburg elementary schools grapple with overcrowding a year after redrawing attendance boundaries to deal with overcrowding; the schools name their teacher and principal of the year.
The School Board is getting ready to name four schools; a forced landing in a field near Leesburg Executive Airport.
State Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-33) joins the race for Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10)'s seat in Congress; a mysterious substance evacuates a Loudoun County government building.
Thousands of Woodgrove High School students take a walk for teen suicide prevention; the School Board works on a roadmap to full-day kindergarten.
Brewer's back! The Planning Commission recommends a new noise study around Dulles International Airport.
The Backpack Buddies donate a chunk of change to feed needy students; Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) sees a solid week of protests.