January 2010
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Your Financial Resolutions
It's that time of year again…the gyms are crowded and many people are trying to either give up a bad habit or start a good one. The vast majority of those resol…
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Watch: The Plant Lady
Of the many things we like to seed in our gardens, or have them volunteer year after year, annual poppies and larkspur are two very satisfactory plants. Both wi…
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Walkway Woes
Acrimonious debate about regulations governing sidewalk construction and their impact on the construction of the new, $14 million plus, National Sporting Librar…
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The Saints Go Marching In: 7th Inning Stretch
The noise on Sunday, the screaming, the explosions, the sounds of bodies slamming against one another, was far different than those terrible days four-and-a-hal…
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Talkin' Trash: 2009 Foxcroft Road Pig Pen Awards
This was the eighth consecutive year of a volunteer action to control trash on the Foxcroft Road. The author conducts this survey as a single observer. However,…
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Remodelers Q & A
Lisa from Middleburg writes: "I have a balcony over part of my living room, and the floor of the balcony is a rubber roof. Water stains seem to be forming on th…
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Project Helping Hand for Haiti
Middleburg's Project Helping Hands will partner with Inova's Children Hospital, The Community Coalition for Haiti, regional citizens and leading corporations to…
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ProJet Aviation Announces New Full-Service FBO at Leesburg Executive Airport
ProJet Aviation, a MetroDC area aircraft management and air charter company, has opened a new corporate aviation facility at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO). T…
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Notre Dame Adds a Dance Team
Notre Dame Adds a Dance Team
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Notre Dame Academy Introduces Fox Hunting Club
Riding has returned to Notre Dame Academy! The new Fox Hunting Club is an athletic and social organization which promotes the famed local tradition in the rolli…
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No Creature Too Small for Diana Reuter-Twining
Diana Reuter-Twining is that beautiful child of the sixties who refused to give up her dreams and is now a marvelous example of all the things a woman of courag…
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Middleburg Elementary School and St. John the Evangelist School Field Trips
Middleburg Elementary School and St. John the Evangelist School Field Trips
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Middleburg Community Center Casablanca Ball
Middleburg Community Center Casablanca Ball
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Middleburg Bank Announces Plans to Open New Branch in Williamsburg
Middleburg Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Middleburg Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: MBRG) announced plans to open a new bank branch in the New Town area of…
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Malmgren Joins Bluemont Capital
In early January Harald B. Malmgren joined Middleburg's Bluemont Capital Advisors as their chief Global Economic Strategist. Ambassador Malmgren, is currently C…
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MARE Center Welcomes Undergraduates
Virginia Tech's MARE Center welcomed four new undergraduate animal science students to its facility this week. This first class will spend a semester at the Cen…
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Looking Ahead with Purple
Few believe that America today is better off than in 2000. What must we do to avoid another unhappy comparison ten years hence? My grandfather was a Congregatio…
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Land Trust of Virginia Conserves 365-Acre Property in Upperville
Late last month, the Land Trust of Virginia (LTV), a non-profit land trust based in Middleburg, and Rose Marie Bogley, owner of the 365-acre Bollingbrook estate…
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Korean Comfort Food
After moving from Loudoun County to Fairfax when I was 10 years old, I was exposed to a wide variety of cultures and foods. Many of my high school classmates we…
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Inspired Spirit of Giving for Salvation Army
Manuel Simpson's tireless energy and true generosity lifted Middleburg's spirits and encouraged citizens to clear enough time on their calendars to ring the bel…