Ideas and coffee were flowing freely last week, when more than a dozen entrepreneurs got together at the Mason Enterprise Center in Leesburg.
Washington Post, July 22, 2013
Tag: Loudoun County
Parents oppose walking routes
Parents of schoolchildren who live in and around the Exeter neighborhood in Leesburg are organizing to keep school buses running in their community.
Some Exeter residents say that new walking routes proposed for their neighborhood are dangerous and that parents who drive their children to school instead of allowing them to walk will add to congestion on North King Street near Tuscarora High School and Smarts Mill Middle School.
Washington Post, July 15, 2013
Master Gardeners pulling together
When the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors abandoned the county Master Gardeners program last year, its volunteers might have packed up their rakes and hoes and gone home.
Edye Clark, the group’s president, said that a few members did leave the organization but that most pulled together and worked harder to carry out the group’s mission to educate the public about organic gardening.
Washington Post, July 10, 2013
Prelude to Gettysburg
Civil War reenactors will converge on Furr Farm near Aldie on Saturday to commemorate a battle that took place there nearly 150 years ago. Hundreds of Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives at the Battle of Aldie, also known as the Battle of the Haystacks, on June 17, 1863.
Washington Post, June 12, 2013
Learning with laptops
Geometry took on a whole new dimension for 25 students from Purcellville’s Mountain View Elementary School when their class traveled from western Loudoun to the Microsoft store at Tysons Corner Center to unveil their class projects.
Washington Post, June 3, 2013
Stephanie Foran Q & A
Stephanie Foran, president of Friends of Loudoun mental Health, answers our questions about her organization and how it helps people with mental illness.
Washington Post, May 29, 2013
Briar Woods helps Briarwood
Brooke Wivagg, a student at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, has organized a tornado relief effort to benefit Briarwood Elementary, which was ravaged by a tornado in Moore, Okla.
Washington Post, May 28, 2013
Interfaith baseball team
An interfaith Babe Ruth League baseball team that emphasizes practicing good values was rewarded with what the parent of one player called the “experience of a lifetime” — playing at Nationals Park in the District.
Washington Post, May 28, 2013
Hooking kids on robotics
The two busloads of seventh- and eighth-graders from Sterling who arrived at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda were on a mission. They had come to test the underwater robots they built and to see which teams could maneuver their robots most effectively in a simulated oil-spill scenario.
The students were participants in a Naval research program to interest children in science and technology.
Washington Post, May 22, 2013
New emergency department
Inova Loudoun Hospital is opening the first phase of a $39.2 million renovation and expansion of its facility on Cornwall Street in Leesburg.
Washington Post, May 1, 2013