Archive: 2011
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A Christmas Story
"It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25 December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemn…
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Weapons
On October 27, Town Clerk Rhonda North informed Council that the Town had received an e-mail from a local citizen "alerting it to an amendment to the State Code…
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Water Treatment Facilities
In late October Council passed a resolution conditionally accepting on the Town's behalf the Salamander Water Supply Facilities, including "the well and facilit…
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Water Supply
During a discussion of a resolution of the town's approval of the Northern Virginia Regional Water Supply Plan Normand Goulet, Senior Environmental Planner for…
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Unfinished Business
For nearly a year, since the ambush arrest and perp walk of this newspaper's cofounder and editor on November 30 of last year, members of the Middleburg Town Co…
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To Do The Right Thing
"A gentleman accepts the responsibilities of his actions, and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them, but only acqu…
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Time is a Funny Thing
For over 100 years underpinning our understanding of space and time has been the constancy of the speed of light as stated in the mass–energy equivalence equati…
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The Blackburn Murder: Part Five - The Note
On Friday, December 23, 1854, just a day after she had first laid eyes on him, Mary Evelyn Anderson found herself once more in the company of Judge Brockenbroug…
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Smitten Farm Hay Sweeps First Place at State Fair
Smitten Farm Hay Sweeps First Place at State Fair
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New Officer for Middleburg PD
On November 10 Middleburg Police Chief Bill Klugh formally introduced Heather Fadely, the newest member of the Middleburg Police force to Town Council and the g…
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New Coffee Shop Opens
Nick Forlano, chef and owner of Forlano's Market in The Plains, has been hounded for three years about adding a coffee shop. So when the former owner of the Gre…
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Mistletoe
Now that ninety percent of the deciduous trees have lost their leaves, a gardener can find tree silhouettes interesting. A knowledgeable horticulturist can reco…
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Market Salamander's Chef Wins Food Network Challenge
Jason Reaves, the charming and talented pastry chef at Market Salamander in Middleburg, VA, won the nationally televised episode of Food Network Challenge and t…
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INNOCENT
On November 8, after a two-day trial, a Loudoun County Circuit Court jury took roughly an hour to find Middleburg Eccentric co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Dee…
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Fracking in Virginia?
Has this guy finally stepped over the line? Has he coined a new swear word? No, he really hasn't. Fracking is an abbreviation for hydraulic fracturing, a term y…
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Devotion, Dedication & Determination: Create Firm Foundation for Annie Broderick's Talent
"Creativity takes courage," said Henri Matisse, and, in Annie Broderick's life, it has also taken a devoted husband, dedicated parents and the unflagging determ…
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David Y. Boyce
David "Millwood" Yost Boyce of Millwood, Virginia, died November 13, 2011 in Bunker Hill West Virginia. He was 57. Mr. Boyce was born April 5, 1954 in Wincheste…
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Cain is no Able
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild Republican Herman Cain's surge in the polls over the last mo…
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Audit
At the same work session Jeff Mitchell and Sandy Tondreau, of Mitchell & Associates, reviewed their annual audit of the town's books for the fiscal year ending…
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Are We Bystanders?
Today, many Americans seem to be trapped in apathy, unwilling to become involved in and take responsibility for events around them. They prefer instead to stand…