May 2011
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Who Uses Our Water?
Let's talk today about freshwater use in the United States. You may be in for a surprise. Of course, public supply would have to be the principal freshwater use…
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The Middleburg Economy
This month's Eccentric reports rising meal tax revenues. Last month real estate tax revenues were higher than expected. Next year's budget should, at the very l…
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The Artist's Perspective
What a spring we have had! The Piedmont delivers such a palette of diversity in color across itself this time of the year. It's like a school girl getting all g…
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National Sporting Library's Book Fair
If you, like Thomas Jefferson, cannot live without books, the National Sporting Library & Museum's Book Fair this weekend will be an enormous pleasure. You will…
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Middleburg Hunt Ball
Middleburg Hunt Ball
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Middleburg Beautification Garden Party
Middleburg Beautification Garden Party
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Middleburg Academy Auction
Middleburg Academy Auction
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Me and D
"Me and D-Wade." "The two of us." "He and I are the leaders of this team." I can't tell you how many times I've seen quotes like this from LeBron James this sea…
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Less Cancer & Youngblood Studio
Less Cancer & Youngblood Studio
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Hugh Robert Callaway Wiley Fishing Rodeo
Hugh Robert Callaway Wiley Fishing Rodeo
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Hill School First Grade Attends Rare Specie Fund Event
Hill School First Grade Attends Rare Specie Fund Event
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George Linwood Beavers - Founder Member and President of The Plains Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company
The Plains, Fauquier County, and surrounding counties lost a great friend and fine human being with the passing of George Linwood Beavers on April 25, 2011, a f…
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First ARF Garden Party Major Success
First ARF Garden Party Major Success
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Fire, Water, and $$$
At its regular monthly meeting in May, Town Council learned that improvements are once more under way at the Middleburg Volunteer Fire Department, that progress…
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Eight Foxcroft Athletes Earn All-Conference Honors for Spring Sports
Eight Foxcroft School athletes – three each from softball and soccer and two from lacrosse -- have been named All-Delaney Athletic Conference First Team selecti…
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Eccentric Awards Honor Village Gardeners
Many Middleburg businesses were honored recently for their beautiful and creative gardening displays at the Jump Into Spring festivities. Each winner was presen…
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A Dedicated Voice of Concern for The Shenandoah and a Historic Agricultural Area Under Siege
George Ohrstrom II believes Virginia's 'development mentality' began in the 1700's, has not abated significantly since and is today playing havoc with our regio…
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"Hort Coutour": Waterworld
Yet another new marketing strategy has surfaced for branding and marketing garden plants. Developed by Jim and Jennifer Monroe, previously of Greenbrier Nurseri…
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"Culture of Complicity"
In a recent New York Times analysis of the recent and ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, Norimitsu Onishi and Ken Belsen concluded that "a culture of complicity…
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Middleburg Eccentric May 2011, Volume 8 Issue 2
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