Archive: 2004
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Town Holiday Charity Donations Cut Sharply
After reviewing the accounts of the Town Health Center, the Council voted to donate $16,0000 to charity for the holidays, down from $34,000 in 2003. Lower profi…
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Town Council Considers Proposal
At the November 11 Middleburg Town Council meeting, Dr. Sheila Johnson's Salamander Inn Project restated their offer to help pay for improvements to Middleburg'…
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Third Grade Proclamation
Third graders from Middleburg Elementary made a special presentation to the Council on Thursday night, accompanied by bell ringing. In celebration of American E…
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Splendid Road Coaches and Park Drags Roll Elegantly On at Anniversary Drive
From a distance, they looked like horse-drawn carriages, but upon closer inspection it was clear to see that these lustrous vehicles, drawn by teams of four equ…
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Red vs Blue
Each month in this space Mark Tate (Red) and Dan Morrow (Blue) provide absolutely definitive, perfectly reasoned and indisputably global solutions to all the wo…
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No Beast Feast
As I've gotten older, I find my table, holiday and otherwise, often frequented by true vegetarians, a brave circle of family and friends. I've been serving vege…
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Middleburg Elementary Opens New Playground
Trust advisors know it is as hard to manage money as it is to make it, and that with wealth comes responsibility to give back and invest in one's community. Loc…
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Margarita and George
In preparation for our first hard freeze, I removed the Ipomoea 'Margarita' from the bed at our sign along Route 50. A form of sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas tra…
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Leaking Pipes and Dissatisfied Water Customers
The November session of the Middleburg town council was presented with further illustration of the town's water woes by Herndon residents Bradford and Lurleen C…
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It's Not Your Father's Way of Banking!
On November 4th, Middleburg Bank officially opened its new Reston Financial Center, marking the Bank's first location outside Loudoun County. Currently, Middleb…
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It Takes Teamwork to Make a Dream Work
Mowing the lawn, cleaning the gutters, and fixing the leaky sink can seem mundane and bothersome to people who already own their own homes, but for some people,…
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Holiday Brunch Favorites
The holiday season is a time of celebration over food and drink with our friends, and in rare cases, our relatives. This season is also a time when my kitchen b…
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Handsome Draft Horses join "Christmas in Middleburg"
For the first time, Morrisville State College's Belgian Draft Team will participate on December 4th in Middleburg's Christmas Parade. The six enormous horses ar…
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Give and Take
We all benefit from the tremendous synergies our businesses create during Christmas in Middleburg. Every holiday season we work together on this keynote event t…
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Community Health Center for Middleburg, Purcellville and Lovettsville
If the recently announced partnership between Loudoun Healthcare Inc. and Inova Health System sounds like just another Dulles corridor high-powered merger to yo…
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Coming to a Backyard Near You
The Virginia Department of Transportation may have plans for your back yard. Literally. Unbeknownst to many residents, half a dozen neighborhoods along Loudoun…
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Cartoons and Cocktails at the National Press Club
What does one experience when standing in an enormous conference room at the National Press Club inundated with national and international cartoons along with t…
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Building a Business on Trust
The new retail businesses in town can look downhill for guidance on how to be successful in Middleburg. Middleburg Millwork has been a trusted provider to the c…
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Adventure in Shopping
Here's a quick quiz about the history of retail in Middleburg. Which of the town's stores, 1) is the oldest, 2) stocks over a million products? And 3) fill in t…
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A Global Look at a Local Topic
I have been lucky to have traveled to many interesting places in my arboricultural career. The most intriguing was two years spent in Senegal, West Africa, as a…