February 2014
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W. Gary Baker
W. Gary Baker, a widely respected horseman involved in training, breeding and showing as well as a highly-regarded hunter/jumper horse show manager, and judge,…
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Travel Light, You Never Know When It's Right to Take Flight, Travel Light
My brother and his prep-school band, The Varsity Band, wrote and recorded a song their senior year entitled "Travel Light". It was very catchy and the kind of s…
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The Art of Women and the Sporting Life: National Sporting Library & Museum Exhibit Celebrates Foxcroft Centennial
In conjunction with Foxcroft School's Centennial Celebration, the NSLM is organizing an exhibition focusing on women as sporting enthusiasts, sporting artists a…
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Students Create Online Newspaper: 'The Silver Lining'
The Silver Lining is Foxcroft's online school newspaper and is the school's only student-run publication. Created during our sophomore year (we are now seniors)…
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So… The Olympics
So… the Olympics. They're over, right? I had a hard time figuring out when they started (before the opening ceremony) or when they ended (for some reason, telev…
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Six Students Named to Foxcroft's Cum Laude Society
Four members of the Senior Class and two juniors have been elected to the Foxcroft School chapter of the Cum Laude Society, chapter president Matthew Mohler ann…
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Serendipity, Strategic Planning & Generosity to Transform Marshall, Virginia: New Home for Windy Hill, Middleburg Humane and Fortunate Residents
Hilleary Bogley, President, Founder and Executive Director of the Middleburg Humane Foundation, has known for many years that the increasing number of animals s…
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Senator Jill H. Vogel: Legislative Update February 10, 2014
The 2014 session of the Virginia General Assembly began January 9th. At the end of the first week, the House and Senate met for a joint session to participate i…
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Salamander Zipline Moves Forward
At its February monthly meeting on February 20, delayed for a full week because of snow, Town Council approved a motion critical to Salamander's plans to build…
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Russian Focus at Highland School International Week
Leading off the week in the Upper School was Temuri Yakobashvili, Former Ambassador of Georgia to the United States. He spoke of the need for ideology to help R…
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Plant Baggage: Corydalis 'George Baker'
I'm starting a little series called "Plant Baggage". I will highlight a plant that I consider one of my favorites, and that means any kind of plant. Everything…
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Pink Box Repairs
After legal review a project that will at long last allow much needed repair and refurbishment of "The Pink Box" Middleburg's tourist information center" has be…
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Parking Meter Replacement or Repair
Middleburg Police Chief A. J. Panebianco reported to Town Administrator Semmes that it would cost roughly $75,000 to upgrade the town's current and often proble…
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NexTel Cell Site Decommissioning
Town Administrator Martha Semmes reports that the much discussed, long-planned, and heretofore legally complicated "decommissioning" of NexTel's telecommunicati…
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Middleburg Academy's Michael McDonnell is National Faceoff Lacrosse Champion Again
For the second year in a row, Loudoun County senior Michael McDonnell of Middleburg Academy was named the National Champion High School FaceOff Specialist (Clas…
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Middleburg Academy Celebrates Diversity
When vibrant color photographs of Chinese celebrations heralding "The Year of the Horse" were recently splashed across newspapers everywhere to mark the start o…
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Martin Berkofsky
On December 30 virtuoso pianist Martin Berkofsky died. Mr. Berkofsky came to live in Fauquier County in the early nineties. He performed in Russia, Turkey, Icel…
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Marshall Plans for Growth
For many, if not most of us who live in the western parts of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, growth can be threatening. We worry about the land, the viewshed, th…
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Julia Robinson Receives Rare Equestrian Opportunity
Highland senior Julia Robinson was recently offered a rare opportunity: the chance to spend the spring training to represent the USA on the vaulting team at the…
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Insults and Indian Nicknames
Full disclosure: I'm a graduate of Florida State University and an ardent Seminole fan. As a conservative, I reject the liberal slogan, "the personal is politic…