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Briar Woods' 'Chocolate Factory' Is Sweet and Nutty

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Chocolate and candy and sweets galore! It's every child's dream, and nobody understands that better than Willy Wonka. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Preserving Land Is a Rich Man's Game

Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Boston-Washington corridor's "sea of subdivisions" apparently motivated wealthy Arthur W. Arundel to devote much time and effort to preserve land from more subdivisions (Loudoun Extra, March 19). Read story and 1 comment »

Letter to the Editor: Independence Counts When Drawing Boundaries

Sunday, March 29, 2009

We have the luxury of having independent and knowledgeable professionals involved in the school boundary process. The professionals who assembled the recommendations for new high school and middle school attendance zones — the school district's planning and legislative services executive director, Sam Adamo, and Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III — do not have children in the Loudoun County system. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Obeying Move-Over Law Saves Officers' Lives

Thursday, March 19, 2009

This year I lost my friend, a fellow law enforcement officer, in an accident in Ohio. Read story and 1 comment »

Letter to the Editor: Don't Rush the Decision To Buy Land for 3 Schools

Sunday, March 8, 2009

The Loudoun County School Board has authorized the $11.4 million purchase of two parcels totaling 170 acres for a high school, middle school and elementary school in western Loudoun County. Read story and 2 comments »

Letter to the Editor: Residents Should Adapt To Cuts in Library Service

Thursday, March 5, 2009

I would like to express another opinion on the issue of library cuts in the Loudoun County budget proposal for fiscal 2010. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Hatrick Has Lost Touch With Needs of Children

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Recent articles in The Washington Post about Edgar B. Hatrick III's actions as Loudoun County school superintendent leave one wondering whether the county has outgrown his ability to guide the schools responsibly. Read story and 1 comment »

Letter to the Editor: Raising Loudoun's Tax Rate Is the Wrong Medicine

Sunday, March 1, 2009

George Washington, whose birthday we celebrated recently, was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Just Like Households, County Needs to Cut Back

Sunday, March 1, 2009

In the current economic climate, with prices rising and income falling, our family is doing what any rational household would: tightening the belt. It's a simple principle: If you earn less, you spend less. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Library Cuts Would Erode Quality of Life

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009

Sadly, Loudoun County library trustees are being forced to consider a variety of unsavory options for dealing with a tightening county budget: closing libraries, firing librarians, reducing hours, eliminating special services and events, and delaying the construction of new libraries and the purchase of new books for older facilities. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Speak Out Against Layoffs Of County, School Workers

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009

As a taxpayer, I am outraged that my county’s elected leaders are considering laying off hundreds of county and school employees in the middle of this recession. Read story and 1 comment »

Letter to the Editor: 10-Point Grading Scale No Help to Class of 2009

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

The Loudoun County School Board has voted to have School Superintendent Ed Hatrick present a 10-point grading scale at its March 10 meeting. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Night Lights Would Make Sports Park a Bad Neighbor

Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009

Loudoun County is planning a sports park, with ballfields with night lights and a commuter park-and-ride lot just east of Hamilton. They will create more traffic, and neighbors will have to deal with pollution from the lights, not to mention the cars. Read story and 2 comments »

Letter to the Editor: Let the FTC Weigh In On Broadlands Project

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

We are very concerned that the Board of Supervisors’ denial of Broadlands Regional Medical Center will have a detrimental effect on health-care services in Loudoun County for years to come. Read story »

Don’t Let Budget Ax Fall on Public Libraries

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009

I am concerned that the county's financial problems will fall very heavily on its public library system. Although I agree that in these austere times, the county must move wisely to better match expenditures to revenues, I'm fearful that the library will fall victim to very unwise economies because it is an easy target for the uninformed, and unlikely to be the subject of special pleading that defends other expenditures. Read story and 1 comment »

Freeze Spending, But Don’t Gut It

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009

Loudoun County needs to act responsibly in this recession, but there is no need to panic. Read story and 1 comment »

Letter to the Editor: Don't Deny Residents A Hospital They Need

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Thanks for all the coverage of the proposed Broadlands Regional Medical Center. This is an important issue to the people of Loudoun County. We need access to medical care. For this reason, I and others have formed the group Sterling Area Residents for BRMC. Read story »

Riding Skills Took Young Woman on a Rare Journey

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Like many other Loudoun County youngsters of the baby-boom generation, Libussa Brabner-Smith Huge learned to ride a horse at Montresor, a farm north of Leesburg. Unlike most of the others, she parlayed her skill into an invitation to teach riding to the son of the shah of Iran. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: School's Rural Location Offers Unique Benefits

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Those who oppose our application for a special exception for Springdale Montessori School say the school is a wonderful idea in the wrong location. We beg to differ. We believe it is the perfect location to teach children environmental responsibility and historic preservation. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Broadlands, Not Route 50, Is Best Site for Hospital

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

As long-standing, active members of the Route 50 community, we feel the need to add some perspective to the debate over HCA's application to build a hospital in Broadlands, which is not that far from us here on Route 50. Read story »

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