Archive: 2014
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Backyard Chicken Ordinance
Discussion continued on how to best handle complaints about chickens being kept in some back yards in Middleburg. For the Council's edification and consideratio…
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Another Great Film Festival
This year's second annual Middleburg Film Festival, set for October 30 through November 2, promises to be even more spectacular than the first, and the perfect…
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Animal Night and Cat Night
Animal Night and Cat Night
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And They're Off! Steeplechasing News
The outcome of the richest hurdles stakes on the National Steeplechase calendar determined the Lonesome Glory Champions Award for the leading money winner of 20…
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American Exceptionalism - Red
Obama in 2009: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek excepti…
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American Exceptionalism - Blue
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48 Is America "e…
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Albert's Corner - Coywolves
Wolves fascinate me. I've never seen one up close, but I've read lots about them, and I think they're totally cool. To me, they're a mysterious, untamed, intrep…
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A Place to Be Same Sky Dinner
A Place to Be Same Sky Dinner
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25 Foxcroft Students Named AP Scholars
A record 25 Foxcroft School students -- including six current seniors and more than a third of the class that graduated last May -- earned 2014 AP Scholar desig…
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Middleburg Eccentric October 2014, Volume 11 Issue 7
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Zip On! Exhilarating Canopy Tour at Salamander Resort & Spa
It's different, all right, and a bit exciting when you're strapped into a harness and suspended from a heavy steel cable 30 to 60 feet (at least) above terra fi…
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What's In Your Tank? FAQs About Propane
What is happening with the market price of propane? Our current price is $2.399/gallon. Unlike other companies that have multiple prices depending on who you ar…
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Welcome Foxcroft's New Head of School
When Cathy McGehee, Foxcroft School's new head of school says she feels her life has been connected to the exceptional school and its former headmistress, Mary…
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Waterworld
In Naomi Klein's latest book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate," Ms Klein says "We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emis…
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Vine & Dish
Years ago my wife and I worked for a large fine art publisher. Once through the front door of this company, visitors came to a long hallway and had a choice of…
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Unison Heritage Day Fall Festival
The historic village of Unison, one of the oldest settlements in Loudoun County, invites you to its 11th annual Unison Heritage Day on Saturday, Oct. 25, in the…
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Time to Divide Your Peonies
The gardener is very busy this time of year, opportunities to enhance the garden abound. Many perennials can be divided, for some it's the only time of year to…
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The Art of the Possible
Those who "can," do. Often because they have no choice and are left with few if any options. Contrary to the aphorism, those who "can't, teach," rarely, if ever…
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Susan and Chloe
"When I first got Chloe, I drove four hours to the Amish Country not knowing where I was going or what I was getting other than from a little picture on the int…
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Strategy? We Don't Need No Stinking Strategy!
OK, what he actually said was "we don't have a strategy yet." He was referring to ISIS (the "JV" team), but he unintentionally described his entire foreign poli…