Archive: 2010
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Booksigning for The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History
Author Julie Campbell will lecture and sign copies of her new book, The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History, on Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m., at the Nationa…
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Bipartisanship or Snow Job
You know the joke. We're from the Government. We're here to help you. Well, this time, one more time, and one more time again, those folks from the government w…
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Bipartisanship is for Pikers
Under severe criticism, even from his friends in the mainstream media, President Obama called for a bi-partisan meeting on healthcare this week and offered to o…
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America's System Broken?
Last month, Purple philosophized on the difficulty humans have planning ahead. Heading off serious problems, when costs come now, and benefits lie far in the fu…
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Albert's Corner - A Monthly Column for People Who Share Their Homes with Four-Legged Friends
I've been sitting here for nearly two hours, paws at the keyboard, trying to decide what to write. This is highly unusual for me. Writer's block just isn't part…
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A Tribute to Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn died suddenly last month of a heart attack at age 87. He went, as I think most of us would like to go, suddenly and on a well deserved vacation. I h…
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A Real Divine Comedy
The Middleburg Players is presenting the divine musical comedy 'Nunsense' March 19-21 and March 26-28 at Buchanan Hall in Upperville. Come and get a sneak previ…
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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