April 2018
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… And They're Off!
Point-to-points and sanctioned race meetings in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, sometimes both weekend days, offer an action-filled mid-Atlantic circuit t…
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Write to Influence! -- The College Application (Part 2)
Imagine an inverted triangle – macro to micro. Part 1 of this two-part series spoke to strategies by which to gather data; then develop, outline, and draft that…
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Tim Burch and Adam Wertheimer Join BOWA's Ownership Group
BOWA, an award-winning residential design and construction firm, is pleased to announce two new company owners, Tim Burch and Adam Wertheimer. With their additi…
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The Orbit of Capitalism
A more populous, closer trading world makes connections across distant spaces more necessary. As trading distances shrink and ties strengthen, however, resource…
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The Importance of Kindness
Since this is my second article for Middleburg Eccentric I thought I would dig a little deeper. Get it? Dig? I'm a dog? Anyways, I wanted to talk about somethin…
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The Artist and the Soldier
Angelle Cook is the Program Director at A Place to Be, a certified and practicing drama therapist, and now, a published novelist, writing under the pen name, An…
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Summer Planning: Meaningful Summer Options for High School Students
Each year, parents of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors ask me what they should be doing during the summer months. Sometimes they ask what will "look g…
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Stop Metro Washington Council of Government's Force Fed Population Growth
Please sit down when reading this. Did you know all your local elected officials tacitly support the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's plan to for…
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Social Media... Facebook, Twitter and all the rest
I am not a tech person, and I have neither a Facebook nor Twitter account, so the topic this month is somewhat out of my comfort zone. I have never understood t…
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Running With Those That Can't
Cricket Bedford and daughter Louise Whitner run a half-marathon in the Czech Republic with team Smiling Crocodiles, Virginian Scott Keel's charity that provides…
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Play
When was the last time you kicked a ball? Just for the fun of it, not competition. How about sliding down a sliding board or exploring the jungle gym at your lo…
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Perseverance and Support
On November 2015 Life Scout Noah Mamula submitted a proposal for his Eagle Scout Project—an Outdoor Classroom for the Middleburg Community Charter School (MCCS)…
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New Stables on the Mall for Park Police Horses
Beautifully visible because of their horses, the U.S Park Police mounted units attract a fair amount of attention from 36 million annual visitors to the Nationa…
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Nature-Based Solutions for Water
As world population reaches nine billion by 2050, the number of people in the world without safe drinking water will continue to increase. A report released on…
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Middleburg Starts Cigarette Recycling Program
The Town of Middleburg now has a cigarette recycling program. Many of the Town's trash cans have a new addition – a cigarette waste receptacle – to collect ciga…
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Middleburg Election Day May 1st
Registered voters who are residents of the Town of Middleburg will cast ballots on May 1, 2018, at Town Hall, 10 West Marshall Street, in what has become the mo…
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Middleburg Eccentric April 2018, Volume 15 Issue 1
THIS MONTH IN THE ECCENTRIC: Middleburg Election Day, Middleburg Town Council Report, The Year of the Hound, A Goodbye from Mayor Davis, It Pays To Be Thrifty,…
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Join Two Terrific Young Voices on a Musical Tour
So, you like the singers on the show "The Voice," right? Well, get ready for the arrival of two young men with voices that can make any talent judge's jaw drop.…
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It Pays To Be Thrifty
Spring is here! Commence your spring cleaning! Here in Middleburg and the surrounding area, we are fortunate to have a wide variety of "thrift" shops, places to…
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Internet Innovation and Privacy, A Scientist's View
There has been so much discussion recently about the Internet, Facebook in particular, and individual privacy that I thought I would discuss this from the viewp…