2009
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Cool Season Food and Ornament: The Plant Lady
The Iris reticulata have joined snowdrops and winter aconites in flower. The show is fleeting and everyone should spend some quality time admiring these hardy f…
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Cold Comfort: Familial Foods
As I write, the weather outside is frightful. Remnants of a white blanket of snow still cling to the ground, and the wind is whipping up severe and blistering g…
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Cherry Blossom Fund's Generosity Battles Breast Cancer
The Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Fund (CBBCF), a component fund of the Piedmont Community Foundation, recently disbursed $41,500 to five non-profit organization…
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Bergan Poetry Festival Showcases Students and Professionals
The Foxcroft Poetry Festival, in its second year as the "Paul K. Bergan Poetry Festival," was a rousing success on this very, very cold weekend. Poets, students…
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Art Contest Winner Honored at MARE Center Event
Despite the cold, windy, day about 100 people turned out to honor Sara L. Withrow of Spotsylvania County's Stars 'n' Blazes 4-H Horse and Pony Club for her awar…
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8th grade students of St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
8th grade students of St. John the Evangelist Catholic School in Warrenton participated in making their own replica of the Statue of Liberty. The students are s…
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Your Trees Deserve the Best of Care!
All Phases of Tree Care: Residential and Commercial…
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Your Horse's Health: Understanding Equine Herpesvirus
Recent equine herpesvirus (EHV) outbreaks around the country have led to great interest in the disease and equally great anxiety among veterinarians and horse o…
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Town Council Opposes School Closings
Middleburg's Town Council dispatched Lisa Patterson to the January 15 meeting of the Loudoun County School Board, armed with a unanimously supported resolution…
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The Gardeners Escape
I always enjoy putting an assortment of colorful plants in containers for the summer months and my mind had departed this dreary month of January to a more colo…
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
We go to press on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama, elected in November, the 44th President of these United States of America. He takes office under…
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Talkin' Trash, 2008
The 2008 was the seventh consecutive year of a volunteer action to control trash on the Foxcroft Road. The author conducts this survey as a single observer. How…
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Slobberknockers, Donnybrooks and Cardinals, Oh My!
Henry Large, no man ever more aptly named, loved a good slobberknocker. Were slobberknockers the kinds of things for which a person might purchase tickets, toke…
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Save Our Schools and Libraries
This week a new President was inaugurated. Next week the Republican Party will select new leadership and begin a rebuilding process. The liberal media have decl…
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Salamander Resort & Spa Joins Associated Luxury Hotels International
Salamander Resort & Spa, slated to open in spring 2010 in the scenic foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, has joined Associated Luxury Hotels Internati…
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Robert Downing
Robert (Bobby) Morgan Downing passed away in his home in Middleburg, Virginia on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, following a courageous battle with cancer. Robert…
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Preserving a Culture: A Conversation with Manley and Mary Johnson
Canada geese waddle across the neatly manicured lawns of Holman Hall, interrupted every so often by others taking off and landing in waves. My knock brings enth…
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National Sporting Library To Host Exhibit, The Story of Harness Racing by Currier & Ives
On Friday, March 13, 2009, a collection of rare, original Currier & Ives lithographs will open at the National Sporting Library. The exhibition, entitled The St…
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Middleburg Bell Ringers Raise $7200 for the Salvation Army
Middleburg Bell Ringers Raise $7200 for the Salvation Army