Archive: 2012
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Patrons of Fox's Den Tavern Enjoy Proprietor's American Legacy
For restaurateurs, the decision about venue selection when choosing to open a business can be an extraordinarily involved process almost bordering on a science.…
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Lin It to Win It
"Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise." That's what Floyd…
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Foxcroft Goes Above & Beyond to Raise $10,000 for Cherry Blossom
Last fall, the Foxcroft School community set a goal of raising $5,000 for the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation. Then, the dedicated students went out and…
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Fiona's Top Secret Day
I am Fiona. I am eight years old. This is my story about the Pentagon. I went to the Pentagon on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. I had to go in the early morning a…
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Everything Old is New Again at The Waterford School
When, in January of 2007 a raging fire engulfed Waterford's Old School, the cultural heart of the community, all the gallant fire fighters could do was decide w…
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Editor's Desk - Anonymous
Anonymity is one of the true glories of a free press. Without it we would have few, if any, whistle blowers or any of the other "informed" sources which all too…
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Conservation with a Purpose, Capitalism with a Heart - A Creek Runs Through Us
As the balance of the earth's resources shrink, amidst higher human consumption and growth in world population, technology alone will not supplant extractive re…
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Angela Plowman to Serve as Middleburg Town Attorney
The Town of Middleburg has appointed Angela Plowman to serve as Town Attorney. She will replace Liz Whiting, Middleburg's former Town Attorney. Plowman brings b…
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America the Divided
Perhaps you share Purple's concern over the tone of the current political primaries, and their assaults on our incumbent President. For those of you who are Chr…
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Albert's Corner - Zoey's Story
For the last four years, my family's shop, Wylie Wagg, has hosted dozens of adoption days for the Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue (AGPR). The Great Pyrenees b…
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Virginia Horse Show Association 2011 Year End Awards
Virginia Horse Show Association 2011 Year End Awards
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Van Metre Homes Garners Trash Award in 2011
2011 was the tenth consecutive year of volunteer action to control trash on the Foxcroft Road. The author conducts this survey as a single observer. However, th…
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Uranium Mining in Virginia: Part II
Last month this column discussed the proposed development of a uranium mine in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Developers indicate that the mine would create mor…
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The Blackburn Murder - Part 7: The Gathering Storm
This is the story of the 1854 murder of VMI Cadet Tom Blackburn, the trials that followed, and the impact of those events on young men and women who would all t…
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Super Sunday
Alex Smith's coronation following the San Francisco 49ers win against the New Orleans Saints two weeks ago was, probably, a little premature. With one minute le…
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Protect Our Watershed
A conservation easement is considered a gift to the nation and Fauquier County can be considered one of the nations crown jewel with some 94,500 acres permanent…
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Missing Water Found
After one of the best Christmas seasons in Middleburg since the onset of the great recession, Town Staff began the new year by reporting further significant, an…
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Help Our Bees
Any day with temperatures over 55 degrees brings out the honey bees. The infrequent Helleborus foetidus or early flowering witch hazel will be loaded with polle…
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Discovering a Culture of Place
Where I live now, the Blue Ridge isn't very high. Snickers Gap and Ashby Gap are just 1,000 feet, and the ridge between them rises only half again that high. Bu…