Category: EDITORIALS
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Editorial: Laurels
Congratulations to Judge Tom Horne and Journalist Margaret Morton, recipients of the 2016 Loudoun Laurels. All of us are indebted to Judge Horne for not only…
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Editorial: Racism
There was a time in the living memory of all too many of us in Loudoun County when the October 1, 2016, vandalism and defacement with “white power” graffiti of…
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Editorial: Vote
Difficult though it can be at times, the Middleburg Eccentric’s editorial policy has been, since the beginning, to not endorse political candidates. Once the…
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Editorial: Non-Profits and Press Policy
Over the years, we’ve been honored and gratified by the many thanks we’ve received from local citizens and volunteers who are at the heart of the Middleburg…
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Editorial: True Blue
Middleburg, like every small community, has benefitted from good cops (some of them decorated heroes at the risk of their lives) and, sadly, some bad. In these…
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
The best news to surface in Middleburg since the hail stopped falling has, no doubt, been the return of something approaching normal traffic flow to…
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The Unfinished Work - Editoral
On July 14, 2016 the Middleburg Town Council held its regular monthly meeting. It was celebratory. Quiet. Sparse attended. Even Boring. Small Town Democracy at…
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Standing Tall
Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night . . . nor baseball-sized hailstones, nor gas leaks, nor on-going construction, one-way traffic, angry commuters,…
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Strange Light in the Sky - Secret Revealed
A strange glowing orange sphere reported to have appeared without warning one morning in the eastern sky; an orb which appears to gain altitude at a steady…
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Tip of the Hat : Free Parking
Kudos to Town Council, Staff, the Middleburg Police, and the Middleburg Business and Professional Association for their close co-operation and mutual support…
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Wags of the Finger: Secret Sessions
Government bodies adjourning into “Closed Sessions,” tossing out the press, non-privileged members of its own staff, and the general public, and either keeping…
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Middleburg Bank
The financial press and local weeklies of late have been full of speculation about Middleburg’s oldest financial institution, Middleburg Bank, becoming part of…
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In Praise of Personal Service
As Town Council Member Mark Snyder explains in his column elsewhere in the April Edition of the Eccentric, no less than four of Middleburg’s seven Town Council…
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Middleburg Needs YOU!
In his first column for the Eccentric, one of Middleburg Town Council’s longest serving members, Mark Snyder, makes an eloquent appeal for citizens to both run…
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Traffic, Pain and Gain
The disruptions caused by construction in Middleburg over much of the year ahead will be, in a word or two . . . a pain . . . for local citizens, shoppers,…
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Community
“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don’t talk about it; they are the ones who make a…
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Christmas in Middelburg
At press time the Middleburg Police Department was estimating that an all time record crowd of between 26 and 28 thousand people were present for all or part…
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Good Cops . . . and Others
When introducing her unanimously supported “Resolution in Appreciation of Police Officers,” Middleburg’s Vice Mayor Darlene Kirk reportedly noted, “ . . . the…