Archive: 2017
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Piper Cup Polo for the Middleburg Humane Foundation
Piper Cup Polo for the Middleburg Humane Foundation
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Pax Americana and The Ferris Wheel
August is the month Columbus in 1492 set sail for America and the Pilgrims set forth in 1620 on the Mayflower. Optimistically, "…August hangs at the very top of…
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Parking Ticket Fine Collection - Middleburg Town Council Report
Vice Mayor Darlene Kirk asked Council “why Town Clerk appeared to be “waiting for the Leesburg Police Department to run license plates for the past due parking…
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Oath of Honor - Middleburg Town Council Report
At the regular August meeting of the Middleburg Town Council on August 10, 2017, Police Chief Panebianco conducted Oath of Honor ceremonies for the town’s…
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Oath of Honor
At the regular August meeting of the Middleburg Town Council on August 10, 2017, Police Chief Panebianco conducted Oath of Honor ceremonies for the town's newes…
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Nuclear War - A Scientist's Perspective
With all of the turbulence about North Korea and nuclear war, I've been getting some questions lately about what does nuclear war really mean. My simple answer…
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National Night Out 2017 is Mike's Night
National Night Out 2017 is Mike's Night
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Music Tech History - In Unison
This is mostly a hardware story. Remember the old Sony Walkman? Pop a cassette tape into the player, put on your headphones, and you could take your music with…
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Middleburg United Methodist Church Steeple Repair
Visitors and residents alike have stopped to stare at the scaffolding surrounding the Methodist Church’s steeple since February. Extending 90 feet above…
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Middleburg Eccentric August 2017, Volume 14 Issue 4
THIS MONTH IN THE ECCENTRIC: Middleburg United Methodist Church Steeple Repair, The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, ARF, UNA NOCHE EN MEXICO, Opioid Addiction…
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Historic Restoration Nears Completion
Visitors and residents alike have stopped to stare at the scaffolding surrounding the Methodist Church's steeple since February. Extending 90 feet above ground,…
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Happy Hunting
The 2017-2018 hunt season is upon us and for many locals opening cubbing day is like Christmas. Those that partake have spent the summer doing trot sets in the…
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Goodbye Red
Well, as they used to say on the Mickey Mouse Club … "now it's time to say goodbye, to all our company." After nearly five years, your humble correspondent is s…
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Good People
One of the ironies of American political history is that here in the States, because of some the earliest colored maps of election returns "red" voters and thei…
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Getting Started with the Right Remodeling Team - Ask a Remodeler
Is now the time to jump into that project you've been considering, but you don't know how to get started? In my opinion, finding the right fit in a renovation p…
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EDITORIAL: The Next Five Years
I’ve been asked what I think the Town looks like in five years: I believe it looks better in five years, but not any bigger. Here are the priorities that I’d…
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Community Music School of the Piedmont Honors its First Piano Teacher with Annual Scholarship
Community Music School of the Piedmont is pleased to announce the creation of the annual Katherine Jameson Piano Scholarship. The scholarship honors the late Ka…
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Charlottesville - A Personal View - Blue
On Friday, August 11, 2017, along with millions of others, this writer watched a video of a torchlight parade on and around the grounds of the University of Vir…
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Business Development - Middleburg Town Council Report
Middleburg’s new Business & Economic Development Director Jamie Gaucher reported that he had “hosted his first company visit of Middleburg earlier in the…
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Bureau of Land Management - Waterworld
When most of us think of public lands we tend to think of national parks and monuments managed by the National Park Service, national forests managed by the U.…