With this issue, Volume 10, Number 12, the Middleburg Eccentric completes its tenth year of publication.

It was born, appropriately perhaps, during a heated discussion at The Coach Stop, that well-loved and still missed tangle of bar, booths, chairs and tables that only a decade ago, served as Middleburg's combination restaurant, watering hole, newsroom, Facebook, and Twitter account.

Thanks to a long list of devoted advertisers, readers, writers, friends, critics, counsel and supporters the paper has not only survived but thrived during good times and bad.

Our special thanks go out to all whose lives are touched by this paper, and who, in turn, touch us. They make Middleburg the special place that it was . . . is . . . and, with a little luck and wisdom, ever will be.

It was, is, and, we hope, will ever continue to be a pleasure and a privilege to be a part of the extraordinary place that is Middleburg and in some small way share the joy and sadness, the anger and gratitude, the friends and foes, the triumphs and tragedies that make this such a special place and those who love and serve it such special people.