One suspect dead, another arrested in Middleburg bank robbery
One of two suspects in a March bank robbery in Middleburg is dead following a barricade Tuesday afternoon at a home in Loudoun County.
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373 stories since December 31, 2024.
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday, April 9
Legislative effort to buy James Monroe’s Loudoun estate on pause, budget effort underway
Legislation to purchase the former estate of the fifth Founding Father for use as a new state park in Loudoun County was continued until the 2027 session, but it could still be acquired pending approval of the final budget.
Monday, April 6
Loudoun inventor Joe May taps new CEO to lead EIT 2.0
Loudoun County inventor and former state lawmaker Joe May has transferred ownership of his Leesburg-based EIT 2.0 to new CEO Pradyumna Kumar “PK” Swain.
Sterling townhouse fire caused by lithium battery displaces five, family dog
A Saturday afternoon house fire in Sterling caused by a charging lithium-ion battery displaced five residents and a dog and left $320,000 in damages, Loudoun County fire officials said.
Congressman says Army has 'firm intent' to purchase Middleburg Training Center; Gold Cup chair requests pause
The Army has a firm intent to move its "Old Guard" Caisson Detachment to the Middleburg Training Center, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam told constituents Thursday after talking with the Army Corps of Engineers, which has been leading the search…
Thursday, April 2
Facing murder, arson trial in Loudoun, new charges for man tied to Russian crime boss
Jacob Bogatin, 78, charged with murder and arson in the October 2025 house fire that killed a Sterling neighbor, was expected in a Leesburg courtroom later this month for a preliminary hearing.
Tuesday, March 31
Sign Up for the Alerts - Middleburg Town Council Report
March brought the budget proposal. It includes another police officer and $1 million to help Windy Hill build affordable housing, a new water rate structure that charges heavy users more, and a…
Saturday, February 28
Tears of Joy - Middleburg Town Council Report
On February 11, 160 people filled Town Hall to watch the Asbury Church oral histories, the stories of the church and of Middleburg's Black community, told by the people who lived them. The next night…
Saturday, January 31
Two Point Four Million - Middleburg Town Council Report
The new Council was sworn in on January 8. Two weeks later it saw the bill for the Asbury Church: $1.86 million to build, about $2.4 million all in, against the $1 million the Town set aside three…
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
We All Deserve Each Other - Middleburg Town Council Report
Council's last meeting of 2025 was mostly goodbyes. Peter Leonard-Morgan and Bud Jacobs left after nearly a decade apiece, along with three committee members. The new delegate came to say he wants a…
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
2025 in Review: Counting Every Gallon
In 2025 Middleburg learned to count its water. The year opened with forever chemicals in a backup well and the driest start in Loudoun's records, and by fall the Mayor was warning that one of the…
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Eighteen Thousand Straws - Middleburg Town Council Report
November brought an election, a second State of the Town, and some hard numbers about Western Loudoun's water. In 1990 there were about a thousand private wells west of Leesburg. Now there are about…
Friday, October 31, 2025
The First Time We've Seen This - Middleburg Town Council Report
Middleburg is now 16.5 inches of rain behind since the start of 2024, and in October Council argued about how worried to sound. The Town Manager said the system was holding. A Councilmember said that…
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Well 4 Drops Again - Middleburg Town Council Report
Six weeks after Council passed its new water law, it had to use it. Well 4, freshly rebuilt and deepened, was suddenly losing up to 220 feet of water while it pumped, and on September 11 the Town…
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Great to Have, Not Got to Have - Middleburg Town Council Report
Council's only August meeting hired the architect and the construction manager for the Asbury Church. Before the vote, the Mayor said plainly that the church is a "great to have" and not a "got to…
Thursday, July 31, 2025
We Don't Have a Checklist - Middleburg Town Council Report
July brought a would-be successor to the Mille Miglia. It also brought a goodbye to the woman who scooped Middleburg's ice cream for 37 years, and, after three months of work, a water rationing law.…
Monday, June 30, 2025
Rain at Last - Middleburg Town Council Report
The rain came in June, and with it the news that Loudoun County was officially out of drought. Council adopted next year's budget without a dissent, paid off the water system's short-term debt by…
Saturday, May 31, 2025
One Glass, Many Straws - Middleburg Town Council Report
May was about water. The first four months of 2025 were the driest start to a year in Loudoun County in 131 years of records. Last summer two of the Town's main wells came within ten feet of their…
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Option Two - Middleburg Town Council Report
In April the budget shrank. With meals and lodging receipts slipping, the Town Manager withdrew his own request for two more police officers and offered a leaner budget he called Option 2. Council…
Monday, March 31, 2025
Ninety-Nine Point Nine Eight - Middleburg Town Council Report
In March the Town's police department reached full strength. Council then spent an evening deciding whether it needs two more officers. The numbers cut both ways. Across two years, Middleburg had no…
Friday, February 28, 2025
One More Season - Middleburg Town Council Report
At its January retreat Council had leaned toward ending the farmers market. On February 13 it voted 4-3 to give the market another year and $40,000, and then told the four who voted yes to come back…
Friday, January 31, 2025
Spare the Willow Oak - Middleburg Town Council Report
Council opened 2025 by deciding what the Asbury Church will be: a place to tell its own story, with room for small groups and no kitchen. It sent two South Madison Street trees to the chipper and…
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
What Is Success? - Middleburg Town Council Report
Council's only December meeting got the Asbury Church's community report, a clean audit and two new officers first class. Then it spent half an hour asking a question it has been asking since 1996:…