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Va. Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel announces she will not seek another term 4-term state senator endorses newcomer Juan Pablo Segura for 31st District seat By Robin Earl

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

Virginia Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel (R-27th) announced that after 16 years in the Senate of Virginia, she will not run for reelection in November. She is endorsing Juan Pablo Segura, who is seeking the Republican nomination in the newly drawn 31st District. The general election in Virginia is Nov. 7. Before the decennial redistricting process, the 27th District encompassed all of Clarke, Frederick and Fauquier counties; all of Winchester; and parts of Culpeper, Loudoun and Stafford. Since the last state senate election, lines have been redrawn. Fauquier is now split between the 31st and the 28th districts. Vogel lives in the Upperville area and first was elected to the state senate in 2007. She was also the Republican Party’s nominee for lieutenant governor

Levi Norwood

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Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel speaks at a Warrenton rally for then gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.

cil trying to write conditions that would govern the data center’s noise output, they each scrapped their prepared notes. Both had experience in regulation – Cross as the chief of enforcement regulating financial institutions in the state of Washington, Benedict with 35 years of experience

Nearly three years after he murdered his mother and 6-year-old brother, a judge sentenced Levi Norwood to life in prison plus 40 years for the Feb. 14, 2020, double homicide in Midland. He will be eligible for parole in 20 years because he was a juvenile at the time of the offense; he is now 20 years old. Norwood, a 17-year-old Liberty High School student at the time of the murders, pleaded guilty in August to murdering his mother, Jennifer Norwood, 34, and brother, Wyatt Norwood. He also admitted to trying to kill his father, Joshua Norwood, 37, but the shots intended for his father missed. Levi Norwood

See NOISE, page 4

See NORWOOD, page 11

in 2017, losing to Democrat Justin Fairfax by a 5-point margin. She won her last senate election, in 2019, by 29 percentage points. See VOGEL, page 8

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By Peter Cary

Piedmont Journalism Foundation

Chuck Cross of Warrenton and Jeb Benedict of Middleburg did not know each other before Jan. 10; both came to the Warrenton Town Council meeting that evening prepared to speak against the Amazon data center proposed for Blackwell Road. But when they saw the town coun-

By Coy Ferrell

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

Amazon noise enforcement proposal raises thorny legal issues John Benedict is a corporate regulatory attorney who has spoken against the proposed Amazon data center in Warrenton.

Levi Norwood sentenced to life

Warrenton police officer will never forget coaxing distraught woman off bridge By Colleen LaMay

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

Warrenton Police Officer Maribeth Howser was on duty on a super-hot summer day in 2022 when she heard a call from dispatchers about a “sad woman next to bridge.” Howser wasn’t sure what to make of it. What bridge? A sad woman?

At first, she felt no real sense of urgency. Two officers already were working the call, but Howser decided to go too, always ready to learn more. She had been on the force for about a year. The officer, who was then 24 years old, soon became instrumental in saving the life of the woman, who was beyond sad. Her name is being withheld

for her privacy. The woman had been thinking of jumping off a bridge in Warrenton to end her life. For her life-saving help, Howser recently received the VFW Law Enforcement Public Servant Citation, an award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 9835.

Maribeth Howser FAUQUIER TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ ROBIN EARL

See HOWSER, page 10

A tale of two goats. See page 15.

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