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For one week at the end of May, Daphne Thomas and Edward Puccio, emergency physicians at Inova Loudoun Hospital, left one of the most affluent counties in the United States to care for thousands of people who had never seen a doctor before.
Washington Post, July 7, 2014
Two juries agreed: Washington Senators starting quarterback Robert Triffy IV was not guilty of malicious wounding and assault and battery. Triffy had been charged with the crimes after his errant pass struck receiver LeSean Trackson in the face as Trackson chatted with a cheerleader on the sideline. Trackson suffered a broken nose and was eventually traded to another team.
The fictitious scenario — inspired by players for another Washington football team — played out simultaneously in four Loudoun County courtrooms June 20. The teams of attorneys on both sides were actually high school students participating in mock trials, the culmination of the 14th annual Thomas D. Horne Leadership in the Law summer camp.
Washington Post, June 29, 2014
Outgoing Loudoun County Schools Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III left all of this year’s high school graduates with a request that they become life-long advocates for public education.
Washington Post Metro Section, June 29, 2014
By Michael Alison Chandler, with a contribution by Jim Barnes
Since Capital Hospice began offering services to people with terminal illnesses in Loudoun County more than 35 years ago, it has focused on delivering end-of-life care and comfort to patients in their homes.
That will change next month, when the nonprofit company, now called Capital Caring, fully opens the Adler Center for Caring on the Van Metre Campus in southeastern Loudoun.
Washington Post, June 29, 2014
Loudoun County School Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III is retiring after 47½ years with Loudoun County public schools. He has been superintendent since 1991.
Hatrick recently met with The Washington Post to talk about his career. In this second of a two-part Q&A, he discusses his views on public education.
Washington Post, June 23, 2014
School Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III is retiring after 47½ years with the Loudoun County public schools. He has been superintendent since 1991.
He recently met with The Washington Post to talk about his career and his views on public education.
Washington Post, June 16, 2014
People with low incomes who lack health insurance can get medical services at a new free clinic in Chantilly. The Adams Compassionate Healthcare Network, a nonprofit arm of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, formally opened the clinic June 8 with an inaugural ceremony at the ADAMS Sully Center.
June 16, 2014
Middle school students at Loudoun Country Day School recently got a close look at creatures that lived 19 million years ago. Through their research, some of them even made their own bids for immortality.
Washington Post, June 11, 2014
Loudoun might have to dip into the county’s general fund to help pay for the extension of Metrorail’s Silver Line into the county, and that possibility raised the eyebrows of at least one supervisor at a Board of Supervisors meeting.
Washington Post, June 9, 2014
The first chapter in the story of Riverside Presbyterian Church in Sterling has quietly closed, with the sale of five acres of prime real estate in Cascades to a developer.
Washington Post, June 9, 2014