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5 days ago | 
loudounnow.com | Hanna Pampaloni |Norman Styer
The Purcellville Town Council is expected on Tuesday to take a final vote to eliminate its Police Department. If they do, the town will be the largest in the commonwealth not to provide that service. Of the 100 Virginia towns with population over 1,000 residents, only eight do not have a municipal police force. Of those, Lovettsville, with a 2020 census population of 2,694, is the largest town without a police department.
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6 days ago | 
loudounnow.com | Hanna Pampaloni |Norman Styer
The Purcellville Town Council is expected on Tuesday to take a final vote to eliminate its Police Department. If they do, the town will be the largest in the commonwealth not to provide that service. Of the 100 Virginia towns with population over 1,000 residents, only eight do not have a municipal police force. Of those, Lovettsville, with a 2020 census population of 2,694, is the largest town without a police department.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
One of Loudoun’s newest wineries celebrated a milestone last month with the bottling of its first vintage with own-grown fruit. Those white wines mark the next step in the journey of Mike and Luanne Gutermuth, who turned their passion for wine into a new family business, Good Spirit Farm.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
While job growth continues and unemployment rates remain low, Loudoun’s economy is starting to feel the impact of federal government policy shifts. Executive Director of Economic Development Buddy Rizer provided an update to the Board of Supervisors’ finance committee last week. “While we're not seeing any real impact in the numbers at this point, we're starting to see some warning signs,” he said. “Several big projects have been put on pause.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
As the region continues to be impacted by severe drought conditions, the Middleburg Town Council is reviewing two proposals aimed at promoting water conservation. After experiencing drought for much of 2024, conditions in Loudoun County have not improved. The first quarter of the year was the second driest in the past 131 years and March was the seventh driest on record, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
An announcement Friday that Maryland authorities are offering up to $3 million to relaunch White’s Ferry operations has the two property owners involved with the four-year stalemate reviewing their options. The Potomac River ferry just north of Leesburg closed in December 2020 following a Loudoun Circuit Court ruling that the operators did not have rights to use the Virginia landing and efforts to negotiate a new lease deal failed.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
An announcement Friday that Maryland authorities are offering up to $3 million to relaunch White’s Ferry operations has the two property owners involved with the four-year stalemate reviewing their options. The Potomac River ferry just north of Leesburg closed in December 2020 following a Loudoun Circuit Court ruling that the operators did not have rights to use the Virginia landing and efforts to negotiate a new lease deal failed.
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1 week ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
A joint effort from the Maryland legislature and Montgomery County is offering $3 million to help resolve the four-year standoff that has blocked operation of the White’s Ferry operations across the Potomac River. The ferry just north of Leesburg closed in December 2020 following a Loudoun Circuit Court ruling that the operators did not have rights to use the Virginia landing and efforts to negotiate a new lease deal failed. The ferry owners sold their holdings to Loudoun businessman Chuck Kuhn.
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2 weeks ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
The Ketoctin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on Tuesday celebrated 75 years of promoting historical preservation and patriotism during a ceremony that highlighted the significance of Thomson Mason’s Raspberry Plain estate north of Leesburg. The Loudoun-based Chapter was established on April 4, 1950, by 12 descendants of Revolutionary War patriots.
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2 weeks ago | 
loudounnow.com | Norman Styer
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office put the spotlight on resources available to help crime victims during a candlelight vigil Sunday night at the Douglass Community Center in Leesburg. Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Lorraine Goldberg, who supervises the agency’s Victim Advocate and Domestic Violence units, led the program, which kicked off National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
