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Loudoun County, Va. — Cheers and LoCoSports have named their 2022-2023 All-LoCo gymnastics team. Broad Run High School senior Lauren Brendlinger has been named Gymnast of the Year. Woodgrove High School head coach Maggie Barnes has been named Coach of the Year. The All-LoCo photo shoot will be held...

Burning Question: Any updates on the Mezeh at Compass Creek in Leesburg? It was announced over a year ago, but other than the few signs in the windows that went up pretty quickly, there has been no observable progress. Thanks! — Marty M. We feel your pain, Marty. The...

PURCELLVILLE, Va., March 24, 2023 — The Purcellville Town Council has scheduled a series of regular and special meetings where the FY24 budget will be discussed. The schedule of regular and special meetings is as follows:. Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (this is a regularly scheduled meeting @ 6:00PM) Town...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On June 20, voters in Loudoun County will have an opportunity to vote for the Democrat they would like to see on the November ballot for Commonwealth’s Attorney. Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj is facing off against Democrat Elizabeth Lancaster. In...

The Purcellville Planning Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend the Town Council deny the county’s proposed Rt. 7/690 interchange project, or condition an approval on the county fully addressing the commission’s concerns. The decision comes after months of review by the Planning Commission following a decision by...

Editor: My parents always told me if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. In her announcement for Loudoun’s top prosecutor last month, Elizabeth Lancaster touted her chief advisor as Sean Morgan. He’s so prominent in her campaign and he even gets highlighted on her campaign website, essentially showing a vote for her is a vote for him!

A proposed development featuring a large hotel and two new restaurants is under review by the Town of Leesburg — and assuming it comes to fruition, it will be located in an area that is seeing a lot of growth. The project is currently called Liberty at Russell Branch....

UPPERVILLE, Va., March 23, 2023– The 2023 Upperville Colt & Horse Show presented by MARS EQUESTRIAN™ is the oldest horse show in the U.S. and will celebrate its 170thyear this June 5 through 11. Parking and general admission are free again this year. Founded in 1853 as a...

International Data Center Day was celebrated Saturday with a 4.9999K race and one-mile fun run through the heart of Loudoun’s Data Center Alley. While morning rains put a damper on the race, the 7x24 DC Chapter-sponsored event served as a showcase of the data center industry and raised funds to support the Dulles South Soup Kitchen.

Out with the old and in with the new. After more than a decade in business, the Mali Thai Cuisine restaurant in Ashburn has closed and a new Thai restaurant has opened in its place. A banner hangs over the doorway at the space in the Broadlands Village Center announcing...

The pilots who were flying a business jet when a woman was injured during an in-flight disturbance earlier this month and later died had aborted their first takeoff after receiving caution messages on their instrumentation, according to a report the National Transportation Safety Board released Friday. The NTSB has been...

PURCELLVILLE, Va. March 23, 2023 — Beginning Monday, March 27, 2023, the Town’s Contractor, Stuart M. Perry, will be conducting milling and paving operations at the following locations in Town: Wintergreen Drive, Woodbine Court, Orchard Brook Drive, Sunflower Court, Sage Court, Rosemary Lane, Canterbury Circle, and South 11th Street.

Editor: The unethical behavior continues within the administration building of LCPS where parents have been saying for years that there is a complete mismanagement of funding and yet with another increase of their operating budget the constituents will continue to bleed money to a school system that is bent on destroying education.

As years of discussions around the county’s plans for roads and parks in Purcellville continue inside the Town Hall, the county government is moving ahead with or without the town’s sign-off. Already delays have prompted the county to cancel plans that were decades in the making for a...

It’s been awhile since we had a good morning mystery — a story we uncovered that leads to more questions than answers. Such is the case with Nautical Bowls and their apparent plans for two Loudoun County locations. As regular readers of The Burn know, the health bowl...

PURCELLVILLE, Va. March 23, 2023 —Beginning Thursday, March 23, 2023, Segra will be relocating a portion of their underground facilities along the east side of S. Maple Avenue from approximately E. Main Street to E. Stephens Drive. This relocation work is required in order to accommodate the Town’s planned roadway and drainage improvements project along S. Maple Avenue that is scheduled to start construction later this year.

After two terms on the county board, Supervisor Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge) has formally announced he will not seek reelection this November. In his emailed announcement March 23, he thanked his constituents for the honor of representing them. “That being said, while I very much enjoy representing the needs...

Sheltered, a four-member rock band from Potomac Falls High School, took top honors in the 2023 Loudoun Youth Battle of the Bands. The final round of competition was held Friday night at the Tally Ho Theater with 11 performers and bands playing 15-minute sets before an enthusiastic audience and a panel of judges.

During its March 21, 2023, meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the relocation of the park facilities that were previously proposed at the Fields Farm Park within the Town of Purcellville to a new, county-owned, 143-acre site located just west of the town. In addition, the Board designated the property as the future site of the Western Loudoun Recreation Center and a new Purcellville Library. The county also will initiate a water and wastewater feasibility study for the property, which Loudoun County is in the process of purchasing.

On January 19th, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office was notified of multiple white supremacy propaganda flyers posted on roads in the Purcellville, Hamilton and Waterford areas. Approximately 50 posters were found, reading, “Pray for White America.”. It is speculated that the flyer was made by the Loyal White...