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Marshall’s Main Street project enters the home stretch

By Mark Gerchick

Special to the Fauquier Times

Just in time for its 225th birthday, Marshall is about to finish its makeover.

After two years of construction, anticipation and some impatient grumbling from local residents and businesses, the $6.9 million Marshall Main Street project is in the home stretch. Local proponents hope to see it completed in time for a long-planned “Marshall 225” weekend, set for Sept. 28 through Sept.

30, full of events commemorating Marshall’s formation.

Previous project schedule predictions have proven overly optimistic, but the regular presence now of construction vehicles, utility trucks, cherry-pickers and multiple work crews testifies to what official Fauquier County progress reports suggest: The end is in sight.

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Smith-Midland, a concrete plant in Catlett, is facing a $14,482 fine from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for a five-year lapse in its groundwater monitoring among other issues.

Smith-Midland faces $14K state fine over water testing

By Hunter Savery

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

PHOTO BY MARK GERCHICK

Crews work on power lines in downtown Marshall last week.

Signs data center fever is spreading to Fauquier County has a few existing facilities, but more are in the pipeline

By Peter Cary

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Less than two weeks ago, OVH Cloud, which operates a data center at Vint Hill, bought 10 more acres to expand its operation. A few days later, data center operator CyrusOne met with Fauquier County planners to preview its plan for a 48-acre data center campus next to OVH. See DATA CENTERS, page 6 MAP: Where are new data centers proposed?

See page 6.

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OVH Cloud, which operates a data center at Vint Hill, bought 10 acres adjacent to its building to expand its data center operation there.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has proposed fining Smith-Midland, a Fauquier County based concrete manufacturer, for repeatedly failing to fulfill its water testing requirements.

A proposed enforcement action against Smith-Midland shows that the company failed to monitor wastewater discharges into nearby Licking Run, part of the Potomac River basin, in 2021 and failed to conduct groundwater monitoring in the acid-washing area of its Catlett facility for five years between July 2017 and June 2022.

The company was also cited for discharging water with chemical concentrations above the legal limit, according to a DEQ filing.

The consent order between Smith-Midland and DEQ is open for public comment until July 20. DEQ has proposed a fine of $14,482.75 for violations of Smith-Midland’s permits, which govern wastewater discharge and its concrete permit.

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School board to reinstate 24 teachers’ aide jobs Budget changes boost school board salaries 25% to 33%

“I think we’ve done a very good job, during some very difficult times, but it’s just not sustainable,”

By Hunter Savery

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

The Fauquier County School Board amended its budget for fiscal year 2024 to reinstate at least half of the 48 teacher aide positions that were cut to help fund 5% staff raises and approved a plan to raise school board members’ salaries between 25% and 33% without impacting the existing budget for the 2023-24 school year.

The school board approved the changes unanimously during a special meeting on Tuesday, June 20. The approved budget amendments were first discussed by the school board on Monday, June 12, and the revisions were made to the new budget the school board adopted in April.

Although the new state budget has not yet passed, the school board’s budget amendments assume the school division will receive $1.3 million in state money it stood to lose because of a calculating error by Virginia Department of Education that came to light earlier this year.

The school division will use part of the money to retain the 24 teachers’ aides working in middle and high schools in various capacities, including special education classrooms, libraries and in school attendance offices, according to Deputy Superintendent Major Warner.

The jobs were part of the more than 60 instructional positions Superintendent David Jeck stripped from the budget in April as part of his plan to pay for planned 5% staff raises for next school year without the $4.1 million in extra local funding he requested from the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors.

The 24 teacher aide positions at the middle and high school levels are slated to cost about

SUPERINTENDENT DAVID JECK ON THE ONGOING CHALLENGE OF INSUFFICIENT LOCAL FUNDING FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY SCHOOLS

$740,000. The positions are being funded in part by an additional $242,569 in local funding the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors recently approved for the positions.

The school board will use about $541,000 of the $1.3 million in restored state funding to pay the rest, said Prashant Shrestha, Fauquier County schools’ assistant superintendent for budget and planning.

The school board agreed to use the remaining funds to restore some of the other cuts Jeck proposed in April to fund the staff raises. They included purchasing three new school buses; boosting raises for the school division’s top-level staff from 1% to 5%; restoring 5% cuts to individual school budgets; and restoring $262,000 in funding to the school division’s capital maintenance fund.

The school division is hoping to also reinstate the 24 first-grade teacher aide positions that expired at the end of the school year, but the funding for those jobs has not yet been identified.

Those positions were meant to be temporary and not continue beyond the end of this past

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school year. But schools recognized the value of the positions, which prompted the effort to retain them at least for next year, Warner said.

Those positions also cost about $740,000. The school division will look to grant funding to find enough unspent money to reinstate at least 18 of 24 the first-grade teachers’ aide positions, Warner said.

If the funds are identified, the school division will begin advertising for the positions in mid-July and expects to be able to hire back many of staff members who filled the instructional aide positions last school year, Warner said.

A pay raise for school board members was also included in the budget amendments. The raise would take effect January 1, 2024, and bring the salary of the chair from $14,400 to $18,000; the vice chair from $13,300 to $17,000; and members from $12,000 to $16,000.

The raises amount to increases of between 25% and 33% per position but are the first raises for the school board since 2003.

Virginia law prohibits school board members from raising their own salaries and can only raise the salaries paid for the positions during an election year. Therefore, the new board member salaries will take effect in January 2024..

School board members serve four-year terms and are up for reelection in odd numbered years prior to presidential elections. All members of the board are up for election this November.

The school board approved a plan devised by Shrestha that will have a net zero cost for local taxpayers because of spending cuts in the school board’s budget for food, travel and office supplies.

The meeting was the last for Superintendent David Jeck, who will step down on July 1. During his parting remarks, he expressed concerns about See SCHOOL BOARD, page 4

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Army, DOD vet enters the race for Lee District supervisor Garrett Baker will run as an independent

By Shannon Clark

Fauquier Times Staff Writer

candidacy and said he “does not look at a person by the color of their skin.”

Baker on data centers

Baker said his stance on data centers is dependent on what Lee District residents want. Baker said if data centers are wanted in the district, he will stand firm on ensuring developers follow through with the promises they make to residents.

“I do know the Lee District is moving a lot faster (in development) than what people want,” Baker said.

“The people in Bealeton ... they work in (places like) Fairfax and D.C., so they come out, just like me, to a place where they were thinking was going to be more relaxed from the high-density (development).

And what I see now is that they’re allowing ... data centers in Virginia; you’ve got a whole lot of centers.”

Former Department of Defense employee and a retired U.S. Army veteran Garrett T. Baker has entered the race for the Lee District seat on the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors as an independent.

Baker, 69, is running alongside Daron Lee Culbertson, 38, who recently won the Lee District Republican primary for the seat on Tuesday, June 20.

Baker is working toward becoming a mortgage broker of his own company, GB Mortgage LLC, and has lived in Fauquier County for the last seven years. Baker said he decided to run for the Lee District seat after hearing from fellow residents about concerns they had around data Baker on school funding Baker said he supports teachers centers and other issues. and funding Fauquier County public “As a supervisor, I want the comschools to ensure teachers munity to understand that can do their jobs. Baker someone is there to help said he would consider you and that’s what it’s all reallocating some monabout,” Baker said. “And ey the county spends on that’s why I’m doing what its libraries as a way to I’m doing.” increase local funding to Baker is one of four inthe school division. dependents running for a The county’s fiscal year seat on the Fauquier Coun2024 adopted capital imty board this year. Two inprovement plan allocated Garrett T. Baker dependents are seeking the $400,000 to the design of Center District seat, and a library in Vint Hill. The one is on the ballot in the Marshall county allocated $114.9 million to its District. There are no Democrats run20 public schools, including $95.8 ning for the Fauquier County Board of million toward the school division’s Supervisors this year.

Baker told the Fauquier Times operating fund, for fiscal year 2024, that he is running without a party which begins July 1. In the same affiliation to ensure he can represent budget, the county allocated $3.2 Lee District residents without influ- million to its libraries, according to county documents. ence from political parties.

“I would find out if we have to “You think you’re going into spend so much in libraries ... and someplace to make a difference for can we take some of that money and people, but then you get a phone push it in a different way?” Baker call,” Baker said. “Whatever you asked.

“I wouldn’t want the school do as a Republican or a Democrat, board to lose money.” there are some outside influences that influence your decision-making. Baker’s other priorities If elected, Baker said he will priIt happens in the United States, and we can’t be gullible to say it doesn’t, oritize being a “mediator for the when it does. That’s the main reason people” and will work to keep comwhy I decided to be an independent.” munication between himself and Lee In 1999, Baker ran as an indepen- District residents his top priority. dent for the Virginia House of Dele- Baker a said he would like to take angates in what was then the 28th Dis- other look at the county’s budgets to trict. Baker lost to Republican Bill assess the finances of the county and Howell, according to the Virginia to where money has been designated.

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Baker is one of two candidates Baker said. “They will know that.”

Baker also has a medical backwho could become Fauquier County’s first Black resident elected to the ground in logistics and budget manboard of supervisors this Novem- agement from his time serving in ber. Independent Raeid Ebrahim, an Army combat battalions and at the 18-year-old recent graduate of Fau- Walter Reed Army Medical Cenquier High School, is also vying to ter. He also has worked in positions make local history in his run for the dealing with housing as housing Center District seat. Ebrahim is in a manager at Quantico Marine Base, three-way race against Republican and as a director for family housing incumbent Supervisor Kevin Carter in Milington, Tennessee. Baker has and fellow independent Lawrence been licensed as a real estate agent Kovalik, who recently announced since 1990, according to his campaign website. his candidacy.

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Marshall’s Main Street project enters the home stretch MARSHALL, from page 1 Once completed, the central part of the rural community’s main artery will have a new look. Most obvious will be the removal of the web of power and utility lines that overhang Main Street – “overhead spaghetti” a longtime resident calls them – and the aging wooden poles supporting them.

Already in place are widened sidewalks with accessible curb ramps meant to enhance safety and appearance; trees installed in sidewalk planters; and decorative streetlamps erected along the route.

In addition, the Virginia Department of Transportation confirms that Main Street is slated for repaving this summer. Milling is currently scheduled to begin the last week of July, with paving to follow.

After the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors awarded the construction contract in October 2020, the multifaceted project was initially targeted for substantial completion by early to mid-2022. Factors cited for the timeline slippage include winter weather and supply chain challenges and the discovery in late 2021 of decades-old, ill-marked water and sewer lines buried along the route of construction.

With the streetscape work now nearing completion though, the

remaining major task – “undergrounding” the tangle of aerial power and utility lines -- is well underway. According to the most recent progress update issued June 12 by Deputy County Administrator Erin Kozanecki, Dominion Power is expected to finish installing new underground electric service lines by mid-July, converting its individual customers to the new service starting at the western end of the project near Frost Street and moving eastward.

Once Dominion is finished, the telecommunications and internet providers that also use the utility poles – Verizon, Comcast and others – will remove their own lines and pull their cables through already-constructed duct banks, protected pathways for the buried lines.

The old telephone poles themselves will then come down, and contractors will have another month to complete final site work, such as pavers and sidewalks near the removed poles, Kozanecki said.

“We are hoping the . . . project is substantially completed for our Marshall 225th Anniversary Celebration,” said Anne Michael Greene, president of Marshall Moving Forward, a nonprofit community group shepherding the planned end-ofsummer weekend commemorating Marshall’s formation.

Events then are slated to include a “Taste of Marshall,” historic walking tours, tours of the historic Black churches, a Marshall Fireman’s Carnival, fall festival, live music and Marshall Day at Marshall Parks and Recreation. The group has also organized a four-part Marshall lecture series this summer.

Main Street business owners affected by months of excavation and construction also look forward to the project’s completion.

“We’ve lived through the worst of it,” said Brian Noyes, owner and self-described “baker-in-chief” of the Red Truck Bakery. “For a few days, there was no way to get in the front door without climbing over things, but there’s always a little pain. I’m very happy with [the project] though. It makes the place look good.”

Amanda Luhowiak, proprietor of The Whole Ox market and butcher shop, is glad “we’re near the end” but said she thinks initial timelines for completion were unrealistic. A key concern has been the loss of street parking for customers due to the street work, though “we’re blessed with a supergood [customer] following.”

That said, she added: “We’ll be happy when it’s all over and we can get all the parking spaces back on the street.”

School board to reinstate 24 teachers’ aide jobs SCHOOL BOARD, from page 2 the school division’s ongoing practice of cobbling together money from various sources rather than being able to rely on local and state funding to meet the school division’s needs. Jeck said the strategy is “unsustainable.”

“I understand the importance of being frugal and managing a budget carefully and being responsible for every dollar -- that’s all appropriate, 100% appropriate,” Jeck said.

But Jeck noted that it is the responsibility of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors – not the school board, which has no taxing authority – to generate sufficient local tax revenue for the school division.

“That’s what they’re elected to do,” Jeck said, adding: “I think we’ve done a very good job, during some very difficult times, but it’s just not sustainable … and so there’s gonna come a point where something will, you know, something is going to have to hit the fan.”

Jeck said unexpected events, such as a surge in enrollment, could cause major fiscal problems for the school board and its ability to support students given that funding is so tight.

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error took place, and we missed pany’s violations impacted other creased risk of disease even from Smith-Midland faces tent taking a very small number of those private wells or the environment and ingesting water that was below the $14K state fine over tests, which resulted in the DEQ said past data did not raise any con- legal limits for nitrate contamination. A 2018 report from the Envifine. We have revised our internal cerns. water testing “Now, we don’t actually know; ronmental Working Group found procedures to prevent this from ocFINE, from page 1 Smith-Midland has since resumed testing and returned to compliance with DEQ regulations. A spokesperson for the Smith-Midland attributed the testing failures to an error and said internal procedures have been updated to prevent future lapses.

“The company takes its responsibilities to safety and environmental stewardship seriously,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement to the Fauquier Times. “We routinely conduct the required tests, ensuring that the water quality is good. An inadver-

curring again.”

According to Jim Datko, a regional enforcement specialist for DEQ, unchecked runoff could have negative impacts.

“It’s highly variable, but obviously there could be potential for an environmental impact to the ecosystem,” Datko told the Fauquier Times. “But if there are any nearby groundwater wells that are used for water supply, if you end up with contaminants above certain levels in ground water, then that could cause a problem for other users of that water.”

He stressed, however, that it is unknown whether any of the com-

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we went back and we looked through the historical record of Smith-Midland, and the data that we have submitted for both the groundwater and the surface water prior to these missed reports didn’t show any issues,” Datko said.

The Smith-Midland plant is located on Catlett Road in Midland. It is surrounded by farms and homes.

According to the EPA, concrete washout is an environmental hazard because it contains toxic metals and a pH of 12, making it highly caustic.

For reference, Drano drain cleaner has a pH of 13.5. Poorly managed concrete washout can harm eyes, gills and reproductive functions of exposed fish.

Smith-Midland’s permits require the company to monitor discharged water for pH, oxygen levels, ammonia, suspended solids and other indicators of possible pollution.

Water containing inorganic nutrients, such as nitrate, can have negative impacts in runoff by causing blooms of harmful algae in the bodies of water in which they flow.

Those algae can produce toxins or deplete oxygen levels in bodies of water. This is called nutrient pollution and mostly comes from stormwater runoff.

For humans, nitrate pollution can cause increased risk of certain cancers, thyroid disease and other illnesses. Studies have shown in-

1,700 communities in the U.S. had nitrate levels in their drinking water, which could increase the risk of cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Private wells are not subject to nitrate maximums, which is of particular concern to places like Fauquier County where outside of the town of Warrenton, residents rely exclusively on groundwater to supply their homes.

In December 2022, when Smith-Midland filed its Discharge Monitoring Report for Outfall 001, it reported an “X,” which indicates that it did not conduct testing there.

In January, its DMR showed discharges from Outfall 001 that were at nearly twice the legal limit for weekly concentrations for Chemical Oxygen Demand. That means the amount of organic and inorganic compounds in the samples would require twice the amount of oxygen from the receiving waterway to break it down.

Additionally, the plant engaged in no stormwater monitoring from any of the outfall sites in 2021.

There is no assessment data available for 2022 for Licking Run, the primary discharge area for this site, nor is data available for Licking Run’s unnamed tributaries, according to the consent order.

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Signs data center fever is spreading to Fauquier DATA CENTERS, from page 1 And on the same day, Tuesday, June 20, an applicant for a new, 55-acre data center complex in Remington met with county officials to discuss rezoning its property.

Meanwhile, data center developers continue to try to woo Fauquier County conservation and citizen groups in hopes of avoiding what occurred in Warrenton last February, when irate opponents came close to derailing a proposed Amazon data center.

Members of Protect Fauquier, the Piedmont Environmental Council and Citizens for Fauquier County said they have met with four data center developers in recent months. All three opposed the Amazon project, and CFFC joined with several residents in a lawsuit to invalidate its approval.

“We’ve never had this many (data centers) on the table at once,” said Kevin Kask, the PEC’s Fauquier County land use field representative.

These are just the most recent signs that the data center fever seen in Loudoun and Prince William counties has spread to Fauquier. Unlike the other two counties, Fauquier has plenty of undeveloped land that sells for considerably less than what is seen further north.

Currently, Fauquier has one data center, OVH Cloud, operating at Vint Hill and two to four running at the secretive U.S. Army Training Center in Warrenton. Six more are in the approval pipeline, and two other landowners are offering their properties for data center development as well.

Here’s a rundown:

Vint Hill: 1 existing, 1 more complex in the pipeline

OVH Cloud, a French company, has operated a data center in an 80,000-square-foot building in Vint Hill since 2017. OVH closed June 16 on the purchase of 10.81 adjacent acres for $5.5 million to expand its existing data center complex, according to Carter Wiley, a Fauquier resident and commercial real estate broker.

The property is well suited for data center operations, Wiley said, because it adjoins a parcel owned by the electric utility NOVEC, which could build a substation there if needed. About one acre of the property contains a retention pond that may be transferred to a conservancy, Wiley said.

Just north of OVH’s site on Vint Hill Parkway, a Texas-based Headwaters has 48 acres under contract. Notes from a June 20 pre-application meeting with county officials indicate the proposed data center development would consist of four, two-story buildings totaling 898,000 square feet. The end-user is likely CyrusOne, a Dallas-based data center operator, according to other county documents.

In June 2022, Headwaters signed a deal with Blue Rock I LLC to develop the property as Vint Hill Technology Campus. A company associated with Blue Rock bought the property in 2021 for $8.75 million.

Unlike other parts of Fauquier, data centers are allowed at Vint Hill by-right, meaning they don’t require a rezoning or special use application as long as they use recycled water or a closed-loop air-chiller system. Underground power lines that could serve the site are nearby, though if the site needs high-powered transmission lines, a substation may be needed.

“We may not need any formal applications until a specific site plan is further developed,” Headwaters’ Mike Lebow told the Fauquier Times in November 2022. His goal, he said, is to develop in a way “which mitigates risks for end users and eliminates uncertainties for the community.”

Catlett: 0 existing data centers, 1 complex in the pipeline

Headwaters also wants to develop a 60-plus acre parcel at the corner of Va. 28, also known as Catlett Road, and Gaskins Lane, which it calls “Catlett Data Center Park.”

Vint Hill Warrenton Training Center Dobson 1 Amazon

Warrenton Dobson 2 Maple Tree Farm

Remington Convergent Technology Park

Remington Technology Park SAMX Data Center

HeadwatersCyrus One, Vint Hill Data Center

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Operating In application or approval process Offered for sale MAP BY VINCENT SALES

Tracking Fauquier data centers: The county has two existing data center sites (green) and six more (orange) in the application or review stage.

Three more sites (pink) are being marketed for data centers. Source: Fauquier County, Warrenton land records.

On Oct. 24, 2022, Headwaters signed a development deal with Catlett Station II LLC, owned by two local businessmen, including Joel Barkman of Golden Rule Builders, whose business sits adjacent to the property.

Unlike the property in Vint Hill, this one would have to be rezoned from industrial to “business park,” a designation that allows data centers.

On April 11, Headwaters representatives met with county officials for a pre-application meeting. On June 7, Headwaters hosted an open house at the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport to tell residents more about the project.

Initial plans call for three to five buildings, totaling up to 1.4 million square feet. The buildings would be restricted to 45 feet in height, and Headwaters promises a noise study and a closed-loop cooling system.

Julie Bolthouse, the PEC’s land-use director, said the project will likely require an approximately 3-mile-long high-voltage electric transmission line, possibly from a NOVEC substation in Nokesville. The line could run southwest along Va. 28 or along a parallel railroad line. But its routing would be up to Dominion Energy and NOVEC and ultimately the State Corporation Commission, which decides transmission routes.

“One of our big concerns with the data center industry in general is just the infrastructure and who’s paying for it,” Bolthouse said, noting that ratepayers normally pay for new substations and transmission lines. “Why are we paying for it?”

On June 1, Headwaters filed for a county zoning text amendment aimed at allowing it to run overhead power lines to its data center, instead of burying them as required by county ordinance.

The proposal, which would apply to all county data centers, requires a review by the county staff and votes by the planning commission and the board of supervisors.

Remington: 1 approved, unbuilt complex; 2 more in the pipeline

Remington Technology Park, owned by PointOne Development Corporation of Canada, is a 234-acre data center campus located on Lucky Hill Road just east of town and near existing high-voltage transmission lines. Required zoning changes were approved by the county supervisors in March 2018.

Plans depict six data centers when the project is fully built out. On Feb. 20, 2020, county officials approved a site plan specifying construction of its

first 240,000-square-foot building, but the structure has yet to be built.

PointOne CEO Colin Clish said in an email a year ago that the technology park was looking for its first tenant. In an email last week, he said he could not comment on what was happening at the park.

SAMX Data Center LLC has a contract on three connected parcels of 55.25 acres just north of The Remington Technology Park that are owned by Superfood Farms LLC. The parcels run west to east from Remington Road to Lucky Hill Road. SAMX Data Center LLC is looking to rezone the land from agricultural to business park to allow data centers. It wants to build three two-story buildings there totaling 1 million square feet.

SAMX partners Peter Mallios and David Hall held a pre-zoning application meeting with county officials on June 20. Mallios noted in an interview that the property was marketed for $2.5 million, adding: “I think we’ll settle before the rezoning is done.” He said the site might have several tenants, but none have been selected yet.

A SAMX application said the company had estimated to Dominion Energy that it will need 225 megawatts of power, and Dominion told them 30 megawatts is immediately available.

Mallios said his company is willing to bury power lines to the site as required by the county and will not seek any special treatment.

“We’re just looking to do what’s allowed,” Mallios said. “The main reason is to minimize opposition because we are cognizant that there’s an awful lot of opposition on an awful lot of places.”

Convergent VA LLC, based in McLean, applied in February 2019 to build the Convergent Technology Park complex on 139.5 acres at the north end of Remington. The county planning commission recommended approval in May 2019, but the applications – for land-use re-designation, zoning change and a special exception – were closed due to inactivity last April and did not proceed to the board of supervisors.

A concept sketch submitted with the application shows six potential data centers with up to 1.07 million square feet to the south of the intersection of U.S. 29/15 and James Madison Highway – property originally slated for a 198-unit housing development.

Since then, the project has seen bursts of activity.

Its representatives have held a couple of meetings with community groups, and in April, Supervisor Chris Butler, R-Lee, submitted a resolution that would have paved the way for Convergent to run overhead power lines to its project instead of burying them per county ordinance. But on April 13, the board defeated this preliminary resolution 4-1.

The idea of allowing overhead lines was opposed by citizens group Protect Fauquier, whose origins lie in a fight against overhead power lines to a proposed Amazon site in Warrenton, and by Citizens for Fauquier County.

Headwaters’ request to run less than three miles of transmission lines would likely apply to the Convergent site if approved by the supervisors.

Convergent’s application said fiber runs nearby, and high-voltage lines bisect the property. A substation is proposed at the south end of the project, and a plan says the project would require 150 megawatts of power. It would not draw on town water for cooling.

Warrenton: 1 in the works

The Warrenton Town Council approved a special exception permit in February for a 220,000-square-foot Amazon Web Services data center on 41 acres along Blackwell Road. On March 22, the company submitted a development plan that town officials returned two months later asking the developer to address more than 350 questions or deficiencies.

It is not unusual for planning officials to return submissions with objections or suggestions, and the process could lead to a third submission, meaning it’s likely months away from approval.

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DATA CENTERS, from page 6

Warrenton Training Center: 2 to 4 existing

Amazon also appears to run at least two data center complexes with up to four buildings at the U.S. Army Training Center on Bear Wallow Road west of town. Being on federal property, those data centers are not subject to county or town oversight, but they do pay taxes to the county on their computers and peripheral equipment.

Amazon’s Vadata was reportedly behind a data center under construction at the site in 2015. The county gave Vadata $2.7 million in tax incentives to build the $200 million data center. Overhead imagery shows two large, low buildings on the west end of the training center, distinguishable by their flat white roofs dotted with cooling units and boxcar-sized emergency generators parked next to them.

In 2018, construction began on another data center complex about three-tenths of a mile to the east.

Building pads were to be in place by 2020. An environmental report filed in 2018 said the center would have 27 data processing containers 80 feet long, 65 feet wide, and 12 feet high.

By this spring, that complex appeared to be complete. It consists of two clusters of identical modules, one with eight and one with 14 connected buildings, each with rooftop cooling equipment and generators stationed nearby. Some of this new construction can be seen from Bear Wallow Road.

Potential data center sites

Maple Tree Farm, a 145-acre site

just across U.S. 29/15 on the southeastern border of Warrenton is marketing itself as a data center site.

To facilitate development, its owners, the Dick and Leonard families, have asked the county to rezone it from agricultural and residential to business park. They have also asked the Town of Warrenton to take the parcel into its borders, which could put it on town water and sewer.

The property is traversed by high-powered transmission lines and served by gas lines. A conceptual plan shows six data center buildings totaling 792,000 square feet and a power substation taking only 60 acres, leaving the rest for open space or other projects, such as a solar farm.

It is priced at $950,000 an acre, close to the price of other recent sales in Prince William County and the same per-acre amount Amazon paid for its 41.8 acres off Blackwell Road.

Dobson properties: Two other properties in Warrenton are being marketed for data centers. One, located on Falmouth Street, is 37.5 acres.

The other is located across the U.S. 17 spur near the Amazon data center site and is 21.7 acres. Both are owned by David Dobson of Rixeyville who put them on the market in July 2022 with concept plans that showed a total of 1.2 million square feet of data centers. Both sites are zoned industrial, so they could be used for data centers with special use permits. Dobson’s real estate agent, Ben Mann of Cushman Wakefield, declined to say what price his client was seeking.

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Celebrating with a bang!

Independence Day events in Fauquier, Warrenton Staff Reports Fauquier County will celebrate the nation’s 247th birthday with fireworks, a reading of the Declaration of Independence and a day of fun on Main Street.

Here’s a rundown of what’s happening and when.

Fireworks at the WARF

The Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility, at 800 Waterloo St., will kick off the Independence Day long weekend with spectacular fireworks on Friday, June 30.

Visitors can expect food trucks from Moo Thru, Kona Ice, Homeplate BBQ and Foster’s Grill parked on the playground from 5 to 9 p.m.

The fireworks will set off around 9:25 p.m. They can be enjoyed from parked cars in the lots, on the field behind the WARF or beside the playground.

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Still want more colorful explosions in the sky? Head over to the Great Meadow Independence Celebration from 5 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, July 2.

The celebration will include family friendly lawn games, polo demonstrations, an aerial show featuring biplanes from the flying circus, barbecue meals for purchase and, of course, fireworks set to patriotic music.

All the fun is happening at Great Meadow, 5089 Old Tavern Road, The Plains. General admission parking passes are $50 in advance; $60 at the door for up to five people For tickets, visit: https://www. gmjuly4.com

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On Tuesday, July 4th, join the fun on Warrenton’s Main Street,

where there will be a parade of kids and pets as well as the Fauquier Community Band and the Silver Tones Swing Band. Food trucks, beer and wine vendors will be available along with a cornhole tournament. Bring your own chairs.

The fun is happening from 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Independence Day Celebration in Middleburg

Middleburg will kick off its Fourth of July festivities at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4 at Middleburg Community Charter School, 101 N. Madison St. Activities include live music, bounce houses for the kids, free glow sticks, food available for purchase from Divine Swine BBQ and burgers and hot dogs from the Middleburg American Legion. The parade line up starts at 5:45 p.m., with fireworks set to begin at 9:15 p.m.

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When: Meeting days and times vary Where: The Warrenton Meeting Place, 26 S. Third St., Warrenton Info: Do you, a family member or loved one have a problem with substance abuse; alcohol, drugs, other addictive behaviors?

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Theater What: Fauquier Community Theatre presents the “Musical - Annie JR” When: 6 p.m. Friday, June 30; 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday July 1 Where: Vint Hill Theater on the Green, 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton Cost: Tickets $10 Tickets: https://www.FCTstage.org or 540349-8760 Story time What: Story Time When: 11 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 30, and Friday, July 7 Where: The Open Book, 104 Main St., Warrenton Info: Stories, songs and coloring time in the children’s area; 540-878-5358 Pet clinic What: Pet Wellness Clinic When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 30, and Friday, July 7 Where: Fauquier SPCA, 9350 Rogues Road, Midland Cost: Fee for various services Appointment: 540-788-9000 x208 Auditions What: Blue Ridge Singers Hold Auditions When: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: Trinity Episcopal Church, 9108 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville Info: No previous musical training is necessary, but applicants should have some prior singing experience; www. blueridgesingers.org or Facebook Book Cellar What: Books, movies and music for all ages; sponsored by the Friends of Fauquier Library to support programs When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 30, Saturday, July 1 and Friday, July 7 Where: John Barton Payne Building Basement, 2 Courthouse Square, Warrenton Volunteer: 540-341-3447 Concert What: Open Late Concert series When: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: National Sporting Library and Museum, 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg Info: Bring chairs or blankets; picnics welcome; no glass containers or outside alcohol; concessions available; free parking; pets must be leashed Independence Day What: Fireworks When: 9:25 p.m. Friday, June 30

Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | June 28, 2023 Where: Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility, 800 Waterloo St., Warrenton Videos What: Storybook Video Showcase for families When: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Watch storybook videos featuring animal antics; popcorn provided Fourth of July What: Red, White and Brews Weekend When: Noon to 6 p.m. Friday, June 30, Saturday, July 1 and Sunday, July 2 Where: Barrel Oak Winery, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane Info: Live music; wine; beer; food trucks on site; fun activities Live music Featuring Sally Mae Foster When: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Warrenton Featuring The Wandering Bard When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station Community Jam Nights When: 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 30 Where: Orlean Market, 5855 Leeds Manor Road, Marshall Info: Bring instrument RSVP: 540-364-2774

Saturday, July 1

Waldo What: Where’s Waldo in Old Town Warrenton for families When: Starts Saturday, July 1, through Monday, July 31 Where: The Open Book, 104 Main St., Warrenton Info: Pick up a Find Waldo stamp card which lists all the participating sites; find Waldo and get the card stamped or signed and be entered into a grand prize drawing for Waldo books and paraphernalia; 540878-5358 Birds What: A Bird’s World When: 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane Cost: $10 parking fee Info: View various nesting habitats and how birds utilize them for survival Nature What: Explorer Outpost When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 1, and Sunday, July 2 Where: Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane Cost: $10 parking fee Info: Learn about the plants, animals and history of farming at Sky Meadows State Park History What: The Settle’s Kettle When: Noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane Cost: $10 car parking fee Info: Learn how foods differed between the Settle family and their enslaved; get historic recipes to try at home Blacksmith What: Farmer’s Forge When: Noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane Cost: $10 car parking fee Info: Members of the Blacksmith Guild will show off their skills; purchase handmade goods on site Bees What: Meet the Beekeepers When: 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Sky Meadows State Park, 11012 Edmonds Lane, Delaplane Cost: $10 car parking fee Info: Meet the local apiarists of the Beekeepers of Northern Shenandoah and learn the art of Apiculture; 540-592-3556 For those in need

What: Toiletry Distribution When: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 1 Where: Faith Christian Church and International Outreach Center, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton Info: Hygiene and toiletry items for lowincome families Independence Day What: Stars and Stripes Festival When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Messick’s Farm Market, 6025 Catlett Road, Bealeton Cost: $15 per person; $10 first responders and their families and seniors; children ages 3 and under free Tickets: https://www.messicksfarmmarket. ticketspice.com/messicks-stars-and-stripesfestival Info: Barrel train rides; slides; kids tattoos; bounce pillow; dunk tank; candy cannon; goats; and more Theater What: “Stink” When: 7 p.m. Saturday, July 1, and 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 2 Where: The Hill School Theatre, 130 Madison St., Middleburg Info: A play presented by A Place to Be Independence Day 4th of July Weekend When: Noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 1; noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 2; 3 to 8 p.m.

Monday, July 3; noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 Where: Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Warrenton Info: Live music; new beer releases; baby goats; local BBQ; and more Totally 80s 4th of July Party When: Noon to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Cost: Cars arriving after 6:30 p.m. will have a $10 fee to park Info: Lawn chairs welcome; live music; food truck on site; fireworks; no coolers; outside alcohol prohibited; rain or shine; fireworks weather dependent Walking tour What: Vineyard and Historic Walking Tours at Magnolia for adults When: 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Magnolia Vineyards and Winery, 200 Viewtown Road, Amissville Cost: $30 per person Reservations: https://www.mysite-107062-104692.square.site Info: Walking tour takes about one hour and includes samples of three wines and a goodie bag Live music Live Music All Weekend When: 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 1, and Sunday, July 2 Where: Magnolia Vineyards and Winery, 200 Viewtown Road, Amissville Info: Celebrate the Fourth of July with Magnolia and live music all weekend long Featuring Virginia Country When: 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 1 Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station

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Reading What: Reading with LJ the Therapy Dog When: 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: The Open Book, 104 Main St., Warrenton Info: LJ and Danielle are a therapy dog team; certified with the Alliance of Therapy Dogs and working in Fauquier County since 2022; LJ will be hanging out in the children’s section, ready for stories and snuggles Independence Day What: Great Meadow Independence Celebration When: 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: Great Meadow Foundation, 5089 Old Tavern Road, The Plains Cost: General admission parking passes are $50 in advance; $60 at the door for up to five people

Tickets: https://www.gmjuly4th.com Info: Music; food; family activities; polo demonstrations; fireworks; and more Fundraiser What: Bingo When: 4:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Station, 19601 Church Road, Brandy Station Info: Hosted by Culpeper Mid-Day Lions; proceeds support scholarships and charities Festival What: Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs at Hunt Country Music Festival When: 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: Trinity Episcopal Church, 9108 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville Cost: $40 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ dr-nathaniel-nat-gumbs-concert-organisttickets-607842873397?aff=0evvnt Info: Solo recital joined by area singers to lead a Gospel Sing; www. huntcountrymusicfestival.org Live music Featuring Flatt Broke Bluegrass Band When: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Info: Open at 11 a.m. for brunch; live music starts at 1:30 p.m.

Featuring Patchwork Dorothy Duo When: 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 2 Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station

Monday, July 3

STEAM What: STEAM for Tweens-Bridge Challenge for children ages 9 to 12 When: All day Monday, July 3 Where: Online program viewing Registration: https://bit.ly/3pP7The Info: Reserve a bag of supplies to be picked up at the library; only one bag per child Art What: Art Cart for preschool and elementary school children When: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Express creativity with the library’s supplies Story time What: Tiny Tots Story Time for infant to 2-year-old children with a caregiver When: 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, July 3 Where: Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton Info: Songs, rhymes and simple stories Games What: Get Your Game On for teens When: 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: Central Library, 11 Winchester Street, Warrenton Info: Tabletops from Apples to Apples to Yahtzee, use one of the library’s or bring one; snacks provided Games What: Get Your Game On for teens When: 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Tabletops from Apples to Apples to Yahtzee; use one of the library’s or bring one; snacks provided Story time What: Pajama Story Time When: 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Stories, songs and activities; PJs are welcome Great books discussion group What: The group will discuss selected poems by John Keats When: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: Virtual Join meeting: 540-422-8500, ext. 2 or jeanne.day@fauquiercounty.gov Dancing See CALENDAR, page 13

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Piedmont Press changes ownership after 35 years Staff Reports Tony and Holly Tedeschi have sold Piedmont Press & Graphics, their printing business and a fixture of Fauquier County for more than 35 years.

New owner Tyler Phaup and operations manager Joseph Kelly took on their leadership roles June 1 and are eager to work with the Piedmont Press & Graphics team to continue delivering printing and sign materials to the community, according to a company news release.

“Business will continue as usual,” Phaup said.

“Customers should not notice any changes in the operation.”

Phaup, 28, said he is excited for the future of the printing industry and opportunities for growth, though he wants Piedmont’s customers to know that his main goal is to continue the culture that the Tedeschis created over three decades, he said in a statement.

“New leadership does not mean changing direction,” Phaup said. “Over the next six months, (Kelly) and I will find our rhythm with the team.

We are going to take the time to understand them as individuals but also the key roles each person plays in the company.

Phaup became a patron of Piedmont Press in 2018 and immediately noticed the strong company CALENDAR, from page 12 What: Irish Dance Nights and Pints When: 7 p.m. Monday, July 3 Where: O’Brien’s Irish Pub, 380 Broadview Ave., Warrenton Cost: $20 per class; free pint with every class Info: Learn how to do simple group dances; wear comfortable clothes and shoes; 540359-6937

Tuesday, July 4

Fauquier County Public Libraries What: All public libraries will be closed in observance of Independance Day When: All day Tuesday, July 4 Where: Warrenton Library, Bealeton Branch Library, John Marshall Branch Library Middleburg Library What: Library will be closed in observance of Independance Day When: All day Tuesday, July 4 Where: Middleburg Library, 101 Reed St., Middleburg Independence Day July 4th on Main Street When: 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 Where: Main Street, Warrenton Info: Kids and pets’ parade; Fauquier Community Band; Silver Tones Swing Band; food truck; beer and wine vendors; cornhole tournament; bring chairs Town of Culpeper’s 4th of July Celebration When: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 Where: East Davis Street, Culpeper Info: Freedom 5K Race; children’s kayaks; vendors; live music; car and bike show; fireworks Independence Day Celebration in Middleburg When: 5:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 Where: Middleburg Community Charter School, 101 N. Madison St., Middleburg Info: Live music; bounce houses for the kids; free glow sticks; food available for purchase from Divine Swine BBQ and burgers and hot dogs from the Middleburg American Legion; parade line up starts at 5:45 p.m.; fireworks schedule to begin at 9:15 p.m.

Live music What: Open Mic Tuesday with Matt When: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 Where: Barking Rose Brewing Company, 9057 Old Culpeper Road, Warrenton Info: Mics are provided; bring instruments

culture, he said in the release.

When Phaup learned the Tedeschis were looking to sell their business, he reached out to express his interest. They quickly discovered their shared values, including the importance of family, community and creating opportunity for others.

Phaup said he plans to relocate his family from Front Royal to Fauquier County in the near future, the release said.

“It’s impressive to see just how deep those roots run in the Fauquier community,” Phaup said. “Because I feel so strongly about entrepreneurship and small business, it opened my eyes to the types of opportunities I can offer to others through a business like this.”

The Tedeschis began their search for a buyer in 2019. After 35 years in an industry that was beginning to change rapidly, Tony Tedeschi said he knew it was time to start looking for the right buyer.

Tony Tedeschi began his journey in the printing industry in 1979 but the passion began early on when he was a child. In 1987, he relocated from Los Angeles to Warrenton and started parent company TR Press.

“When I first came to Warrenton, I knew this community needed a high-quality, high-service company that was modern and hungry and could help people

Wednesday, July 5 Books What: Banned Books Book Club When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 5 Where: The Open Book, 104 Main St., Warrenton Info: The book club will meet every first Wednesday of every month; this month’s pick is “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison; receive 10% off book club books when purchased at The Open Book Crafts What: Crafts on the Go Wednesdays When: All day Wednesday, July 5 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton; John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall; and Bealeton Branch Library, 10977 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: Craft bags for children will be available while supplies last at the Youth Services desk at all locations; choose from prek/child and tween bags; only one bag per child Story time What: In-person story time for children up to age 5 and families When: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 5 Where: John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall and Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: Caregivers must remain in the children’s areas Story time What: Raising Readers Story Time for 2-to4-year-old children with caregiver When: 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 5 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton Registration: https://fauquierlibrary.org/ services/kids/childrens-programs Info: Longer stories, finger plays and songs Puzzles What: Break-In Bags for ages 12 to 17 When: All day Wednesday, July 5 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton; John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall; and Bealeton Branch Library, 10977 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: Solve three puzzles to unlock a bag revealing treasures inside; activity must be completed at the library; while supplies last SPLAT What: SPLAT (Science, Play, Language, Arts, Technology) for children ages 6 to 8 When: 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 5 Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877

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Piedmont Press’ new owners and founders, from left: Joseph Kelly, operations manager; Tyler Phaup, Piedmont Press’s new owner; and former owners Holly and Tony Tedeschi.

make their businesses successful,” he said.

By 1999, the company had grown significantly and became Piedmont Press & Graphics. Since then, the company and its staff have helped thousands of clients reach their business goals and given hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to causes, the release said.

“We are so happy to hand everything off to people who will do an even better job with it than we did,” Tedeschi said. “These guys are going to take it to another level.”

Willow Drive North, Bealeton Registration: https://bit.ly/4505rEZ Info: Learn about the world of science and technology with experiments, arts and crafts and books ESL class What: English-as-a-second-language class presented by Piedmont Regional Adult and Career Education programs When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton Info: 540-718-8243 Thursday, July 6 Art What: Art Cart for preschool and elementary school children When: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 6 Where: Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive, Bealeton Info: Express creativity with the library’s art supplies Story time What: Pajama Story Time When: 6:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 6 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton Info: Stories, songs and activities; PJs are welcome Live music Open Mic Hosted by Drew Dodson for all ages When: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 6 Where: Old Bust Head Brewing Company, 7134 Farm Station Road, Warrenton Info: Sign-up starts at 5:45 p.m.; performers get a beer (or root beer) on the house Featuring Bailey Hayes When: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 6 Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Friday, July 7 Networking What: Fauquier Young Professionals First Friday Lunch When: Noon to 1 p.m. Friday, July 7 Where: Northside 29 Restaurant, 5037 Lee Highway, Warrenton Registration: https://www. fauquierchamberva.chambermaster.com/ eventregistration/register/15309 Community What: First Friday Warrenton When: 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 7 Where: Main Street, Warrenton between Court and Fifth streets Info: Beer/wine garden; Fauquier vendors; food trucks; kid’s and adult activities;

Fauquier Bands Butterflies What: Butterfly Identification workshop for adults When: 10 a.m. to noon Friday, July 7 Where: The Clifton Institute, 6712 Blantyre Road, Warrenton Info: Interested children accompanied by an adult are welcome to attend; wear long pants and a broad-brimmed hat; binoculars are essential Registration: info@cliftoninstitute.org or 540-341-3651 Musical What: Disney Descendants The Musical When: 7 p.m. Friday, July 7; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, July 8 Where: Hylton Performing Arts Center, 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas Cost: Tickets $20 adult; $15 seniors and youth (under the age of 17) Info: Presented by the Pied Piper Theatre Tickets: 703-993-7550 Videos What: Storybook Video Showcase for families When: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 23 Where: Warrenton Central Library, 11 Winchester St., Warrenton, Bealeton Branch Library, 10877 Willow Drive North, Bealeton; and John Marshall Branch Library, 4133 Rectortown Road, Marshall Info: Watch storybook videos featuring tales from around the world; popcorn provided Ice cream What: National Ice Cream Day Weekend When: Noon to 6 p.m. Friday, July 7, Saturday, July 8, and Sunday, July 9 Where: Barrel Oak Winery, 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane Info: Live music; beer; wine; ice cream; food truck on site Live music Wine Until 9 When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 7 Where: Arterra Wines, 1808 Leeds Manor Road, Delaplane Info: Live music; bring a picnic Featuring Dan Trull When: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 7 Where: Death Ridge Brewery, 5393 Higher Ground Trail, Jeffersonton Featuring Jeremy Fox When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 7 Where: Old Trade Brewery, 13270 Alanthus Road, Brandy Station

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School board spending raises questions The Fauquier County School Board is raising the pay for its positions next year. I agree we all want a raise, but I have concerns with how the Board spends our taxpayer funds.

The School Board has approved raises for its members while currently paying superintendent-level compensation to at least two school division staff members. It’s not clear to me if this same level of compensation, or more, is also being paid to additional school board staff.

An April 19 Fauquier Times article cited School Board Chair Stephanie Litter-Reber (Lee District) saying the current Superintendent

David Jeck would retain his salary after resigning from his position as superintendent and being appointed a “special projects coordinator.” As of July 1, we will also have a new superintendent.

Before voting themselves a raise and before submitting any new funding requests, I recommend the school board be prepared to justify affording more than one superintendent-level compensation package.

I trust my Scott District supervisor to seek this justification from the school board.

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Aris Roberts’ contributions to Highland School extended beyond his skills as an athlete.

Roberts was all-state in soccer and tennis, helping him win acclaim as 2023 Fauquier Times Highland School Boys Athlete of the Year – but he was also senior class officer, promoted environmental and sustainability issues and plans to study Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.

He even helped his family with their 16-hive beekeeping operation in Aldie.

“Everything I did throughout high school was oriented towards the environment,” said Roberts, who was a member of the Green Team club, a group dedicated to environmental responsibility and worked hard on his family’s apiary. “I think that reflects how important sustainability is to me.”

Highland School multi-sport athlete Chloe Killinger is as tough as they come.

She suffered a broken nose in soccer as a sophomore and a burst appendix as a senior but never missed much time. A vital part of two Highland state title soccer teams, Killinger, a dynamic leader who added basketball to her resume as a senior, is the 2023 Fauquier Times Highland School Girls Athlete of the Year. She’s also an ace student who will attend Davidson College.

While her skills set her apart, Killinger was also special for her desire to play through discomfort.

“I have kind of the mentality that if I get hurt but I can still see, breathe and run, then I’m not getting taken off of that field,” Killinger said.

During her sophomore soccer season, Killinger broke her nose midgame on a play where she was accidentally punched in the face. Playing through the injury as long as she could, she eventually subbed herself out and was taken to the hospital where her nose was surgically repaired.

“I was determined to not go off the field, so I just kept running until I eventually lost my vision,” said Killinger.

She returned wearing two masks, a standard athletic mask with a fullface shield overtop, after missing just one game, a testament to her toughness and willingness to be there for the team no matter what.

“I hate sitting on the bench. So, if I’m able to push through, I will just to show other people on my team that it’s possible and you can, and that it’s really a team effort,” she said.

Soccer standout

On the soccer field, Roberts led Highland to the Greater Piedmont Athletic Conference tournament title his senior year as the Hawks downed rival Wakefield 1-0 away from home to lift the trophy.

From central midfield, Roberts helped control the game. Highland coach Conor White described him as the “engine of the team. He’s a workhorse who goes for every 50/50 ball, every header, every tackle, and shows guys the intensity we expect.

He’ll also move the ball and control the tempo of the game,” White said.

“He’s a very talented player, but more important is how intelligent he is,” said White. “He’s the ultimate player you want to have on your team, someone all the players can follow on and off the field.”

Older brother Soren, now a student at William and Mary, first got Aris into soccer. “He wants to be always in the most competitive environment.

When he was young that meant playing up with his brother and the older boys,” mom Anouche Roberts said.

As a freshman, Roberts juggled the responsibilities of club soccer and school athletics, meaning he would regularly miss Highland practices, which hurt his game time. Roberts decided to quit club soccer after his freshman year to focus more on life at Highland.

“I saw the relationship with the team and the benefits of having those seniors there to look up to, and I wanted to be part of that,” Roberts said.

See ROBERTS, page 20

PHOTOS BY DOUG STROUD

Tennis-soccer star Aris Roberts and soccer-basketball phenom Chloe Killinger are the 2023 Fauquier Times Highland School Boys and Girls Athletes of the Year. Roberts will attend Cornell and Killinger is going to Davidson.

THE ROBERTS FILE

-Family: Mom Dr. Anouche (Ann) Roberts. Dad Jim works for an optics company and has PhD. Brother Soren, 19, attends William and Mary.

-Honors: In soccer, was first team all-Greater Piedmont Athletic Conference twice; earned second team all-state as senior. In tennis, was first-team all-conference twice; named second-team all-state as junior and first-team all-state as senior.

-Favorite food: Chicken fried rice.

-Favorite Movie: “Avengers: Infinity War” from 2018.

-Favorite restaurant: Blue Ridge Grill. “Their lava cake is delicious.”

- Favorite TV: “The Office.”

-Favorite tennis player: “Roger Federer for his elegance and amazing career, but I love watching and basing my game off of Stefanos Tsitsipas.”

-Favorite soccer player: Cristiano Ronaldo. “I got his haircut in second grade, but I like to base my game style on Kevin de Bruyne and Frankie de Jong.”

THE KILLINGER FILE

-Family: Dad Krister, 59, art teacher at Centreville High. Mom Angela, 48, runs car dealership in Manassas. Siblings Ellie Rose, 19; Lilly, 15; Keagan, 14.

-Education and career goals: Will attend Davidson College and study either environmental science or psychology to become a conservationist or teacher.

-Awards: Soccer: All-VISAA D-II second team as a senior.

Basketball: Greater Piedmont Athletic Conference Co-Player of the Year as a senior.

-Did you know? Chloe grew up in South Riding, has lived in Middleburg for the past five years.

She came to Highland on a Founders Scholarship like her older sister Ellie Rose, who also went to Highland.

-Favorite vacation: Bruges, Belgium. “It’s just a really cute, small European town with a lot of life within the food and the music and the art.”

-Favorite book: “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green.

-Favorite Musician: Niall Horan

Chloe, the early days

Playing soccer since age three, Killinger quickly established herself as a naturally gifted athlete as she excelled on the field almost immediately. “By the time she was like five or six, it was clear that she was at a different level than everybody else,” mom Angela Killinger said.

“I coached her team when she was at that level, and I remember she was the main scorer,” dad Krister Killinger said. “There were times where I had to tell her, ‘You got to back off a little bit’ because some of the other girls weren’t liking it.”

By the fourth grade, Killinger had outgrown the competition and joined a travel team. Again, she continued to shine.

See KILLINGER, page 19

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ALL-NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT SOFTBALL TEAM FIRST TEAM

Pitcher: Lily Wray, Sherando, Fr.; Cadence Rieg, James Wood, Jr.; KYLIE WILKERSON, KETTLE RUN, SR. Catcher: Sydney Orndorff, James Wood, Sr. First base: DELANEY LAIL, KETTLE RUN, SR. Second base: Izzy Mckee, James Wood, Sr. Third base: KATIE HARRINGTON, FAUQUIER, SR. Shortstop: Madison Harris, Sherando, Sr. Outfield: ISABELLE CAVINS, LIBERTY, SR.; Ellie Johnson, James Wood, Sr.; Abby Vadnais, Sherando, Jr.; Anna Borst, Sherando, Jr. Designated player: Jenna Shull, James Wood, Jr. At-large: LAUREN LEATHERMAN, LIBERTY, SR.; MIKAYLA GILMORE, FAUQUIER, SR. Player of the Year: Cadence Rieg, James Wood, Jr. Coach of the Year: Amanda Butts, Handley.

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Fauquier High senior shortstop Mikayla Gilmore was selected to the all-Northwestern District first team and all-Class 4 Region C second team for the second year in a row.

SECOND TEAM

Pitcher: Jenna Shull, James Wood, Jr.; Emily Jeffries, Millbrook, Sr.; KARA KALTREIDER, FAUQUIIER, SOPH. Catcher: LAUREN

LEATHERMAN, LIBERTY, SR.; Kayla Grum, Sherando, Soph. First base: Aliza Judd, James Wood, Soph. Second base: Allie Simmons, Millbrook, Soph. Third base: Kendra Chunta, Sherando, Soph. Shortstop: MIKAYLA GILMORE, FAUQUIER, SR.; Laura Hogan, Handley, Sr. Outfield: Skyla Compton, James Wood, Jr.; APRIL BELCHER, FAUQUIER, JR.; LYDIA LOVELL, FAUQUIER, FR. Designated player: Jaeda Long, Sherando, Sr. At-large: Alexis McFarland, Millbrook, Jr.; LAUREN SMITH, JR.; ERIN IRVIN, FAUQUIER, SR.; Emma Martin, Millbrook, Fr.

ALL-CLASS 4 REGION C TEAM SECOND TEAM

Pitcher: KYLIE WILKERSON, KETTLE RUN, SR. First base: DELANEY LAIL, KETTLE RUN, SR. Third base: KATIE HARRINGTON, FAUQUIER, SR. Outfield: ISABELLE CAVINS, LIBERTY, SR. At-large: MIKAYLA GILMORE, FAUQUIER, SR.; LAUREN LEATHERMAN, LIBERTY, SR.

Liberty senior outfielder Isabelle Cavins ended her Eagle career with allNorthwestern District first team and allClass 4 Region C second team honors.

Kettle Run senior and George Mason University recruit Kylie Wilkerson earned all-Northwestern District first team and allClass 4 Region C second team honors.

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Killinger was Hawks’ lethal weapon in soccer KILLINGER, from page 17 “She was a corner kicker, and in a single game, she hooked in two corners. Crazy for a kid that age. She just had some skills at that age that we could tell that she needed to be challenged and go a little higher,” Krister Killinger said.

Those early days also allowed Killinger to discover what soccer meant to her.

“It was a time for me to just disconnect from everything else in my life. If school got harder or things got stressful, the second I stepped on that field it was a completely different time of my life. It was kind of like therapy for me, just to zone out and run around for an hour was great for me,” Killinger said.

Contributing on and off the field

Killinger lost her freshman soccer season to the pandemic but emerged as a starter and team captain right away as a sophomore.

Killinger made an instant impact on a Hawks’ squads that won back-toback VISAA Division II state titles her sophomore and junior years.

Although she had talent as a speedy wing, Killinger started at defensive midfielder for the Hawks.

“Being a freshman I was like, ‘I will play anywhere you put me as long as I’m on that field,’” Killinger said.

“Her largest strength would probably be control, controlling the tempo of the game or controlling the flow of movement and the ball,” coach Conor White said.

“I’m really good at reading the field and knowing my players and what they like to do. So, I kind of have an idea of what I should do with the ball before it’s even given to me,” said Killinger.

As the program’s first sophomore team captain, Killinger thrived.

“I remember being terrified sophomore year to make any mistakes because I felt like everyone was looking at me because I was so young and had this leadership position. But I learned very quickly that I was in that role for a reason, because people believed in me and believed that I could be there,” Killinger said.

Highland went 14-3-1 and cruised through the playoffs, beating The Covenant School 4-1 in the state final. Another testament to her toughness, Killinger was kneed and cracked a few ribs in the final, she said, but popped right back up and didn’t miss a second of the action.

Highland returned much of its squad for Killinger’s junior year and won another title.

The Hawks, who finished 14-21, dueled Christchurch School in the state championship. After both squads were held scoreless through regulation and overtime, the Hawks prevailed 3-2 in penalty kicks.

“I was just so happy to win with such an extraordinary group of girls.

I really love everyone on the team,

PHOTOS BY DOUG STROUD

Joining the soccer team as an instant starter, Killinger became the first sophomore captain in Highland history and helped the Hawks’ win back-to-back VISAA D-II state titles in 2021 and 2022. and just knowing that we all worked together to get to those moments two years in a row was really incredible,” Killinger said.

Entering her senior year, a majority of the basketball team had graduated or transferred. With just a few newcomers set to join the squad, the Hawks couldn’t fill out a roster and Senior year With head coach Reynolds Oare the season was in jeopardy.

Shortly before the season, athletstepping down following her junior season, Killinger took on the respon- ic director Gary Leake approached Killinger and sibility of workasked her to join ing with new the team. Killcoach Conor inger agreed White to smooth and took it upon the transition for herself to recruit both White and others so the her teammates.

Hawks could put “They’ve all together a comhad one coach plete squad. their entire career.

“We formed And I come in this team of a with a very difm iscella neou s ferent philosophy. group of girls. We She was able to mediate in a way, had two exchange as well as voice students, a bunch the concerns of of seniors, some the team, as well underclassmen as inform me of who were trying the type of playout for the first ers they are and time, and we all the best way to inended up having teract with them,” Playing basketball for just one season, the most amazWhite said. ing time on the Killinger was named co-GPAC Player While the team,” said Killof the Year as a senior.

Hawks fell short inger. of winning a Mom Angethird straight state title, Killinger la Killinger said, “She created this capped off her Highland career by whole team. They were the Bad earning all-state second team honors. News Bears. We went and saw their first preseason game. It was not basSaving Highland hoops After playing basketball during ketball, it was wrestling and soccer.”

Despite a developing team, the her middle school years, Killinger decided not to try out for the team Hawks quickly came together. Afat Highland as a freshman, thinking ter dismantling St. Michael the it would interfere with her soccer Archangel 56-8 in the season openschedule. er, the squad realized the potential

they had.

“All the fans that came afterwards were like, ‘We didn’t know you guys were good.’ And we didn’t really know either,” Killinger said.

“We got a few wins under our belt, and that’s when we all looked at each other like, ‘We could really do this and have a really great season.’

That’s when the competitive winning side came out.”

After finishing undefeated in Greater Piedmont Athletic Conference play during the regular season and winning the conference tournament, Highland was state bound.

“She was the glue. For instance, on gamedays, she held a team lunch at school. So, she really kept everyone together and kept that bond together to keep us moving forward,” coach Denae Davis said.

Despite losing in the first round of the state tournament, Killinger was proud of everything the Hawks accomplished. “No one really expected us to win anything. And then to win our conference, and we even made it to play in the state quarterfinals, was really big for us. Those were just some incredible goals we didn’t think we’d be able to accomplish, but did,” Killinger said.

In the fall, Killinger will attend Davidson College. She hasn’t settled on a degree yet but plans on studying either environmental science or psychology with the hopes of launching a career in conservation or education.

While she will not be playing soccer at Davidson, she anticipates competing on a club team, as well as playing pickup hoops whenever she can.

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Roberts blended brains, athleticism with love of nature

“He’s the ultimate player, someone all the players can follow on and off the field.”

ROBERTS, from page 17

-HIGHLAND COACH CONOR WHITE

By his junior year, Roberts was a leader. His prowess earned him accolades as an all-state second team player his senior season.

Aris’ tennis side

Roberts began competitive tennis as a freshman at Highland.

“My technique was not up to par. I didn’t have a good stroke, I just had the ability to run around the court and get the ball back,” he said. “So, it took a while for me to finally understand how tennis is meant to be played.”

“The kid’s the best athlete on the team, there’s no question about it,” said assistant coach Bill Stern. “He didn’t have the tennis instruction the other kids had, but his athleticism and competitive drive helped him improve greatly.”

Roberts started as the sixth-seeded singles player at Highland, playing doubles his first two years. He had improved significantly by his junior year, climbing to No. 2.

“It took a lot of dedication for him to get better.

It took training outside of practice,” said Stern.

“He didn’t have the polish other kids have in terms of the technique and tournament play, which was the most impressive part of it. To play No. 2 and have the record he had is really, really strong.”

Highland’s tennis team fought in the state championship tournament in both Roberts’ junior and senior years but ultimately came up short in the semifinal both times.

Nevertheless, Roberts won all-state first team honors his senior season, adding to a second team award he earned as a junior.

Aris, the beekeeper

In 2019, a neighbor was selling their apiary, a collection of 16 beehives and roughly one million

PHOTOS BY DOUG STROUD

As a senior, Aris Roberts earned all-VISAA D-II first team honors on the tennis court and second team honors on the soccer field.

bees. The Roberts’ family, with characteristic explorative instincts, decided to try their hand at beekeeping from their home in Aldie.

Roberts played a key role in the beekeeping endeavor during the pandemic in 2020.

At one point the bees began to swarm during the process of moving out to search for a new home. Advanced beekeepers would have been able to avoid this, but without the help of a local mentor who was unavailable at the time, the Roberts were forced to watch as their bees flew into the trees looking for a new home.

Anouche Roberts described the problem: “The bees would swarm and land on top of a tree, 20, 30 feet in the air. Aris would climb the trees and shake the branch, and my other son and I would have a bucket trying to catch all those bees falling down,” Anouche Roberts said.

“Aris was always adventurous, up in that tree for sometimes hours on end. My heart was in my throat, but he was always fearless,” she added.

The Roberts family experiment in beekeeping was successful, but Aris and his older brother Soren weren’t content with just keeping the bees.

As they learned about the insects and the troubles they face, the pair decided to author a children’s book titled “Bizzy’s Wings.” The book tells the story of a young bee with deformed wing syndrome and is available for purchase online.

During his senior year, Roberts spent time researching miticides, which protect bees from dangerous mites.

Roberts also worked at the Piedmont Environmental Council. He’ll attend Cornell University, where he plans to study Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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103rd anniversary for the Warrenton Pony Show runs Wednesday through Sunday

Junior committee hard at work more than a year to breathe life into the nation’s oldest – only – youth-run rated show

By Betsy Burke Parker

Special to the Fauquier Times

The annual Warrenton Pony Show celebrates 103 years of history this week, running Wednesday, June 28 to Sunday, July 2. The event is held at the venerable Warrenton Horse Show grounds on Shirley Avenue near Old Town Warrenton.

The Warrenton Pony Show was voted 2022 Virginia Horse Shows Association Horse Show of the Year.

The event is the only rated competition organized and operated by a junior committee, something senior show officials call a unique part of the Warrenton tradition. Junior co-presidents are Grace Simpson and Kellsey Stern, assisted by a six-member junior executive board and 28 junior committee members. Nine senior advisors help

the young organizers – including two past junior presidents, and longtime show managers Tommy Lee and Diane Jones helm the management team.

A special schooling day is set Tuesday, June 27.

Classes begin at 8 a.m. each day, with the headliner – $2,500 Country Chevrolet pony hunter derby — scheduled for Saturday evening.

There is a silent auction hosted online, with bidding open through the weekend.

In keeping with the July 4 holiday, there will be a “most festive” attire award selected by a committee each day of the show.

The first Warrenton Pony Show was held in 1920. Since then, the one-ring show has been held at the showgrounds near Old Town and completely organized by a junior committee. They handle everything from hiring judges to setting up the

HORSE BRIEF JUDGED PLEASURE RIDE SET JULY 8 The Crystal Crown judged pleasure ride series continues July 8 at Alanwood Farm in Broad Run. Competitors take to a marked 8-mile trail with obstacles dotting the route. Judges will be posted at each “trail horse test” to score horse and rider on their calm completion of tasks like opening and

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The five-event series continues July 22 at Camp Highroad in Aldie, hosted by the Tri State Riding Club.

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The 103rd Warrenton Pony Show runs through Sunday, a county July 4 week tradition since 1920. silent auction, from selecting the charity beneficiary to repainting the show jumps.

Interested juniors, and their parents, are urged to meet with junior committee members during this year’s show to get involved for 2024.

Over the years, the pony show has donated nearly $80,000 to the Fauquier SPCA and other local charities.

Admission is free for spectators.

A full prize list and archival photos are at warrentonponyshow.com.

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Ernest S. Holzworth Jr. to Ronald George Conant, 7632 Swift Crossing, Warrenton. $775,000 NVR Inc. to Victoria Louise Salter, 0.6217 acre at 7985 International Drive, Warrenton. $792,810 Joan G. Flory to Keith Davis, 17 acres near Elk Run, Catlett. $159,000

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Christian Charles Kresge to David Rene Rodriguez, 7149 McHenry Court, Remington. $489,000 David N. Sitton Tr. to Benjamin E. Wilson, 11.240 acres at 8231 Diamond Hill Road near Warrenton. $735,000 Jamie Jo Brown to Brian Joshua Donohue, 1.0887 acres at 7496 Edgehill Drive near Warrenton. $619,000 Robert Wheeler to Farzana Nisar

Ahmad, 0.8508 acre at 100 Sumerduck Road, Remington. $185,000

James Caldwell to Erin Lynn McLaughlin, 0.2295 acre at 132 Moser Road, Warrenton. $520,000

IV, 10.0983 acres at 4272 Danielle Lane, New Baltimore/Warrenton. $850,000

Christopher Paul Usiak to Jeremy M. Gordet, 6237 Winston Place, Bealeton. $387,500

Jonathan Steven Andersen to Carleton Frank Jablonski Jr., 36 Madison Street, Warrenton. $485,000

NVR Inc. to Lance V. Clayter, 0.9021 acre at 9926 Thoroughbred Road, Warrenton/New Baltimore. $1,021,300

Vamsi Maddula to David Anthony Pellegrino, 7018 Tiffany Court, Bealeton. $520,000 John Paul Benson to Jonathan Burns Billings, 1.1208 acres at Millers Court near Warrenton. $525,000

Center District

Noah LLC to Grittman Holdings LLC, 0.0439 acre at 48 and 50 Main Street, Warrenton. $625,000 Matthew Alexander LaFave to Cassandra Whittmarsh, 769 Cherry Tree Lane, Warrenton. $400,000 Kate Beurmann-O’Neill as Spl. Comr. to Carmen Jade Cox, 6410 Abingdon Place, Warrenton. $725,000

Scott District

NVR Inc. to Danielle C. Epperson, 0.5831 acre at 6734 Highlander Court, Warrenton/New Baltimore. $866,625 NVR Inc. to Joshua Randal Barber, 0.5963 acre at 6712 Highlander Court, Warrenton. $886,475 Michael L. Gray Jr. to The B Lodge LLC, 98 acres at 5656 Beverley’s Mill Road near Broad Run. $1,512,500 FS Development LLC to NVR Inc., 0.7742 acre on Thoroughbred Road, Warrenton/New Baltimore. $322,400 Jeffery K. Rizer to Thomas G. Gregg

4137 Weeks LLC to Data Center Vint Hill LLC, Land Bay J, 1.4275 acres on Vint Hill Parkway and 10.8099 acres at 4137 Weeks Drive near Warrenton. $5,500,000 NVR Inc. to Chike N. Uzowulu, 0.5787 acre at 6724 Highlander Court, Warrenton/New Baltimore. $852,435 Loren R. Jewell to Thao Du, 3717 Lilly Lane near Warrenton. $650,000

Marshall District

Adriene Melvin to Joel Johnson, 10.4230 acres at 7945 Citation Drive, Marshall. $1,000,000

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Dennis Wayne Mallette

George William ‘Bill’ Smith

Dennis Wayne Mallette, 76 of Bealeton, VA passed away on Friday, June16th, 2023 after a valiant 19-month fight with cancer.

He is survived by his wife of40 years, Brenda Martin Mallette; his sister Linda Marie Mallette and niece Melanie Lynn Mallette Walrath (husband, Scott & sons Tyler, Dylan & Foster) of Oswego, NY; and many cousins.

He was the son of the late Bettie Mae Backus Mallette and Richard Justin Mallette and the grandson of Edna Lowry and William H. Backus, and Norman and Catherine Cloonan Mallette.

He graduated from Oswego High School prior to enlisting in the Army. He served with the US Army Security Agency from 7/1/64 – 6/28/68 with much of his time being spent in Turkey and then Vietnam. Dennis was very patriotic and a lifetime member of the VFW Post 7728 in Morrisville, VA and a member of the American Legion Post #72 in Warrenton, VA. He was a proud member of the International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC Local 10) for 33 years. He spent most of his years working for Warfield and Sanford based in Washington, D.C. He loved his job and woke up each morning looking forward to going to work.

He was also a volunteer fireman/EMT first in Leonardtown MD and finally in Gainesville/Haymarket, VA where he was elected Chief for one year. It was important for him to provide this service.

He was an avid slow- pitch softball player and played for several teams over the years, most notably, The Washington Senators sponsored by William C. Smith and Warfield & Sanford (W&S). They traveled to California, Arizona, Florida, Richmond & Hagerstown and, of course, played locally. Sometimes he and Brenda were at the softball fields 4-6 times a week including tournaments. After softball he took up the game of golf and in 1989 he joined Fauquier Springs Country Club where he made so many new “golfing” friends AND had a hole-in-one. Dennis also loved to sing and he and his father used to “entertain” patrons at the local bars in Oswego, NY. Dennis Mallette was a wonderful man and his wife Brenda loves him very much.

The family will receive friends on Friday, June 30 from 2:00 PM until the funeral service begins at 3:00 PM at Moser Funeral Home, Warrenton. Interment with military honors will be held on Monday, July 10 at 11:00 AM at Quantico National Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier SPCA, American Legion Post #72, Warrenton or to VFW Post #7728 at Morrisville, VA. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

George William ‘Bill’ Smith, age 83, passed peacefully at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA on Saturday, June 24th, 2023. He was born on January 19th, 1940 in Washington DC, son of the late Edgar Seldon Smith and Ella Austin Riley Smith Freeman.

Bill became a brick mason very early in his life as a teenager. This became his career until his retirement at age 62, after which, he continued to work part-time for Fauquier County Parks & Recreation. He loved this less strenuous work. He had land and a tractor to keep the fields, and he planted a garden every year. Bill was a ‘Jack of all trades’ and he could figure out the most complicated tasks.

In his younger years, Bill belonged to the Fire Department Co. 7 and the Ruritans. He was a faithful member of Trinity United Methodist church in Catlett. He built the foundation for the parsonage and contributed a lot of work bricking the Sunday school wing addition.

Before his retirement from the brick trade, Bill completed some intricate brick work at the Alfred Street Baptist church in Falls Church, VA. He bricked in a ‘time capsule’ the day the new addition was completed. He was proud to be there and help present the ‘key to the church’. This was his ‘crowning achievement’. Working with his hands was his greatest asset. He mowed the fields with his Farmal Tractor and gardening was delightful.

Bill is survived by his loving wife, Nancy Lee Smith; daughter, Deborah Carol Smith; granddaughter, Rachel Courtney Clements Rinker & her husband, Jonathan; three great grandchildren, Ciara Beth, Tristin & Everleigh Rinker; Sister, Irene Grace ‘Penny’ Smith; and his brother, Frank L. Freeman & his wife, Carla and their three children, Father Justin Freeman, Jennifer Freeman and Clayton Freeman & his wife, Katie and their two sons, Cole & Samuel Freeman.

In addition to his parents, Bill was preceded in death by a daughter, Deidre Christina Smith.

The family will receive visitors at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Ave. in Warrenton, VA on Friday, June 30th from 6 to 8 pm. A funeral service will be held in the Moser Funeral Home chapel on Saturday, July 1st at 2 pm followed by interment at Catlett cemetery in Catlett, VA. Online condolences may be made at www.moserfuneralhome.com.

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Cynthia Ann Tapscott

Cynthia Ann Tapscott, 74, of Warrenton, VA, passed June 23, 2023.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 3, 2023, 12:00 pm, at Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton, VA, 20187.

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Frances Regina Gant Frances Regina Gant, 80, of The Plains, VA, passed June 19, 2023. She was born on May 19, 1943, and was preceded in death by her husband, Charles R. Gant. She was a member of First Baptist Church-The Plains, VA. Frances is survived by a Daughter, Robin (Randy) Gant Melton of The Plains, VA; two sons: Charles R. Gant, Jr. of Dunn, NC, Christopher R. (Anna) Gant of Front Royal, VA, two brothers: Joshua (Marion) Taylor, Jr. of Gainesville, VA, Martin (Pam) Taylor, Sr. of Herndon, VA; and two grandchildren.

Family will receive friends on Saturday, July 1, 2023, from 11 am until 12 pm, with funeral services starting at 12 pm at Faith Christian Church, 6472 Duhollow Road, Warrenton, VA 20187. Rev. Leonard Morton, Sr. will deliver the eulogy.

Interment will be in First Baptist Church Cemetery, The Plains, VA. Online condolences can be given at www.joynesfuneralhome.com

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Susan Alane (Watford) Bryan Susan Alane (Watford) Bryan of Warrenton, VA, went to rest peacefully in the arms of her Maker on Thursday, June 22, 2023, surrounded by her family. Born to Gene and Paula Watford in Washington, DC, and raised in Friendly, MD, Susan relocated to Warrenton in 1989 with her husband Bill, and their young son, Nathan, before welcoming three daughters, Caitlin, Lauren, and Mallory. Before creating a home in Warrenton, Susan graduated from Friendly High School and matriculated to Longwood College in 1979 as a Longwood Scholar, and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1983.

Many will know Susan for her heart for people, conversation, and Jesus–for every individual she met, she never hesitated to genuinely stop and ask how they were doing, and how she could be praying for them.

Susan loved the Lord Jesus Christ, and began every morning with a dedicated time of quiet devotion, spent in prayer, study, and worship. She was an active member of many women’s Bible studies in her community, and fostered deep, loving friendships over the decades that spoke into her life and into the lives of her children.

Susan is survived by her husband of 37 years, William Walter (Bill) Bryan III, son Nathan (wife Laura, and son Liam), daughters Caitlin (husband Adam Kirby), Lauren (husband Reid Morrison), and Mallory.

She is also survived by father Gene Watford, sister Paige Brown (husband Steve), niece Jillian Alexander (husband Josh, and children Ezekiel, Aimee, Charlie), and nephew Zachary Brown (wife Sydney, and son William), as well as numerous beloved aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was predeceased by her mother, Paula Watford, and sister Camie Watford.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, July 1 at Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton, VA at 11:00am, with family receiving visitors beginning at 10:00am, and interment following immediately at Bright View Cemetery. As Susan wanted this to be a true celebration that she is now in Glory with her Savior, the family would like to invite those in attendance to wear their favorite yellow accessory if they wish, as yellow was Susan’s favorite color. In lieu of flowers, donations in Susan’s memory can be made to GO2 for Lung Cancer, Compassion International, and Samaritan’s Purse. Expressions of sympathy and shared memories can be posted on the Moser Funeral Home website.

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Lewis (Lew) Temple Smith Lewis (Lew) Temple Smith, 84, died June 17, 2023, at his home in Gainesville, VA. He was born on March 25, 1939, in Port O’Connor, Texas, son of George Washington Smith and Mamie Evangelin (Cornelius) Smith.

He is survived by his wife Patricia (Glascock); his brother Claudius Freeman Smith, of San Antonio,TX; three sons, Lewis T. Smith, Jr., of Temecula, CA, Robert W. Smith, and his wife Susan, of Chantilly, VA and Kevin L. Smith, of Dallas, TX; his grandchildren, Christina Patel, Michelle Sikora, and Rachel Smith; one great grandson, Parker Sikora; and his dachshund, Zeke.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his twin brothers George Jr. and James, and his sister Mamie Pearl (Wallace).

In 1957 he married his high school sweetheart, Ruby Nellene (Dubberly) of Columbus, Georgia, in Aransas Pass, TX. He spent 31 years in government service with the U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency. He served tours in Turkey, Greece, Costa Rica, Burma, The Philippine Islands, and Germany. He later married Patricia (Glascock) in Warrenton, VA, in 1986. Lewis loved golfing, hosting great dinners, fine wine, and the Dallas Cowboys. His wife Pat will host a private celebration of life with his family and friends. Lewis’s ashes will be inurned in the Bright View Cemetery in Warrenton. Online condolences can be made at: moserfuneralhome.com

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Rebecca (Becky) Lynn Edwards

Avis Claire Kessler

Rebecca (Becky) Lynn Edwards, 66, of Amissville, VA. Died on Friday 16th, 2023 unexpectedly. Her love of rescue dogs always gave her great joy. She loved working in her yard and had an exceptional garden for all to share. She also was known for her Halloween house, both amazing and terrifying.

She was the best culinary cook a family could have. It was always tasty and beautifully displayed.

Most of her career was working at the family business, Arlington Iron Works. She is predeceased by her father Howard B. Fitzgerald who she dearly loved and the love of her life Robert Allen Henry.

She leaves behind her mother Patricia A. FitzGerald, son James W. Edwards II ( Jay), sister Janice FitzGerald Groff, (Bob), niece Michelle Brooke Place, ( Jeff ), nephew Robert FitzGerald Groff, (Eryn), Great nieces Hailey, Jenna, and Skylar, as well as her beloved dogs Nell and Tucker.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, June 29, 2023 from 10 to 11am at Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Avenue, Warrenton, VA, 20186 where a Funeral will follow at 11am. Interment will take place at 2pm at National Memorial Park, 7482 Lee Highway, Falls Church, VA , 22042.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to RAWL (Rappahannock Animal Welfare League).

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Avis Claire Kessler, age 86, a resident of Delaplane, VA passed away on June 18, 2023, peacefully in her home surrounded by family.

The daughter of Harold Nenninger and Doris Wadsworth Nenninger, Avis was born in Springfield, NJ on August 27, 1936. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and received her B.S.-R.N. from Columbia University School of Nursing in New York City. Following graduation, she worked as a visiting nurse. Eventually Avis moved to Virginia where she continued her career at Fairfax Nursing Home. In 1986 she took a position at Fauquier Hospital where she worked in the med-surg unit until her retirement in 1999. After her retirement, Avis enjoyed volunteering at Claude Thompson Elementary. Her hobbies included gardening, birdwatching, and walking her beloved Corgi, Fisher. In addition to her parents, preceding her in death was her youngest son, Kurt Kessler and her sister, Joyce Campanella. Avis is survived by two daughters, Kimberley Kroes (Greg) of Delaplane, VA and Lorri Toth (Billy) of Huntington, NY; her son, Carl Kessler Jr. (Laurie) of Nokesville, VA; eight grandchildren, Michelle Gaskins, Rebecca and Logan Toth, Ashley, Julie Ann, and Nick Kessler, Zach and Chase Kessler. Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Heartland Hospice, Warrenton. Online condolences can be made at: moserfuneralhome.com

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Sometimes the type of death (expected or unexpected) or the recipient’s relationship to the deceased (parent, sibling, child, friend) will determine the type of message to send. If you knew the deceased but not the recipient of your card, be sure to share your relationship or connection to that person.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES’ SALE 4624 Lee Highway, Warrenton, Virginia 20187 (PIN: 7906-94-2360-000) Fauquier County, Virginia In execution of a certain Deed of Trust, dated March 24, 2022, granted by Karla C. Bautista Martinez Jimenez, personally, as grantor and borrower, securing the repayment of a loan in the original principal amount of $140,000.00, which Deed of Trust is recorded with the Clerk of Circuit Court of Fauquier County, Virginia in Book 1723 at Page 738, a default having occurred in the payment of the Interest-Only Balloon Payment Promissory Note thereby secured and at the request of the holder of said Note, the undersigned Substitute Trustees (appointed by virtue of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee dated May 29, 2023, and recorded with the Clerk of Circuit Court of Fauquier County, Virginia in Book 1749 at Page 2384 ^PSS VɈLY MVY sale at public auction at the entrance of the Circuit Court building for Fauquier County (40 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Virginia 20186), on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 12:00 o’clock PM

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BEGINNING at (1), a Virginia Department of Highway concrete monument found comer to Pierce and 65 feet from the center of the west bound lane of U.S. Routes 15, 29, 211, thence with the said route South 79 deg. 24’ 30” West 220.96 feet to (2), a Virginia Department of Highway concrete monument found, thence South 69 deg. 47’ 36” West 101.36 feet to (3), a Virginia Department of Highway concrete monument found 48 feet from the center of the west bound lane of U.S. Routes 15, 29, 211, thence with said routes. 79 deg. 25’ 51” West 688.34 feet to (4). a pipe found corner to thence with Brenizer’s line and leaving U.S. Routes 15, 29, 211, North 33 deg. 37’ 56” East 480. 74 feet to (5), a pipe found thence North 22 deg.

29’ 43” East 1023.57 feet to (6), a pipe found in the line of Pierce, thence with Pierce South 39 deg. 29’ 03” East, 526.35 feet to (7), a pipe found, thence South 48 deg. 12’ 50” West 207,70 feet to (8), a pipe found by a cemetery line, thence with the cemetery line North 60 deg. 25’ 23” West 216.03 feet to (9), a pipe found, thence South 26 deg. 21’ 26” West 79.21 feet to (10), a pipe found, a pipe found, thence South 61 deg. 09’ 03” East 193.88 feet to (11), a pipe found, thence leaving the cemetery and continuing with Pierces. 10 deg. 53’ 19” West 22, 59 feet to (12), a pipe found, thence S 39 deg. 18’ 07” East 289.20 feet to (13), a pipe found, thence South 05 deg. 03’ 00” East 297.04 feet to (1), the point of beginning, the said tract of land containing 13.9404 acres; more or less.

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( KLWVZP[ VM JHZO VY JLY[PÄLK JOLJR ^PSS IL YLX\PYLK H[ [OL [PTL VM ZHSL :L[[SLTLU[ ZOHSS IL I` cashier’s check or wire transfer of immediately available federal funds, and shall occur within thirty (30) days MYVT KH[L VM ZHSL ;04, ),05. 6- ;/, ,::,5*, :L[[SLTLU[ ZOHSS VJJ\Y PU [OL VɉJLZ VM )YPKNL ;P[SL 0UJ in Woodbridge, Virginia. The Substitute Trustees reserve the right to extend the date of settlement as may be necessary to complete arrangements for settlement. The deposit, without interest, shall be applied to the credit of the successful bidder at settlement. If the successful bidder fails to complete settlement the deposit shall be forfeited and the Substitute Trustees may resell the subject Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The Substitute Trustees reserve the right to (i) remove any or all portion of the Property MYVT ZHSL H[ HU` [PTL ILMVYL [OL ZHSL PZ HUUV\UJLK HZ ÄUHS PP YLQLJ[ HU` HUK HSS IPKZ PPP ^HP]L KLWVZP[ YLX\PYLments, (iv) extend time for settlement, and (v) announce additional terms of sale. Terms of sale announced at the public auction will supersede all advertised terms of sale. All closing costs, including the preparation of the Trustee’s deed and the grantor’s tax, shall be paid by the successful bidder. In addition, at settlement, the successful bidder shall pay all current and past due assessments, sewer or water charges, and real estate taxes, and any penalties and interest due on any of the foregoing, with respect to the Property. The risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be assumed by the successful bidder from and after the bid strikedown at the time of sale. The Substitute Trustees will not deliver possession of the Property to the successful bidder, who shall be solely responsible for obtaining possession of the Property.

The Property and all personal property applicable thereto shall be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS” and subject to any and all (i) senior deeds of trust, judgment liens, tax liens, lis pendens, (ii) outstanding OVTLV^ULY HZZVJPH[PVU HZZLZZTLU[Z PPP L_PZ[PUN OV\ZPUN HUK aVUPUN JVKL ]PVSH[PVUZ P] ÄSLK VY \UÄSLK TLchanic’s and materialmen’s liens, and/or (v) tenants, leasehold interests and other parties in possession, if any.

Neither the Substitute Trustees nor the holder of the Note, nor their respective agents, successors, and assigns, make any representations or warranties with respect to the Property including, without limitation, representations or warranties as to the structural integrity, physical condition, construction, workmanship, TH[LYPHSZ OHIP[HIPSP[` Ä[ULZZ MVY H WHY[PJ\SHY W\YWVZL VY TLYJOHU[HIPSP[` VM HSS VY HU` WHY[ VM [OL 7YVWLY[` ;OL purchaser recognizes and agrees that any investigation, examination, or inspection of the Property being sold is within the control of the owner or other parties in possession and their agents and not within the control of the Substitute Trustees, the holder of the Note, or their respective successors or assigns.

Immediately upon the conveyance by the Substitute Trustees of the Property to the purchaser at foreclosure, all duties, liabilities and obligations of the Substitute Trustees, if any, with respect to such Property shall be extinguished.

Should settlement not occur for any reason on the part of the Substitute Trustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.

Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, we advise you that this is a communication from a debt collector and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Additional terms may be announced at the sale.

Substitute Trustees: Demetris Voudouris, Esq., 1820 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 21, Reston, Virginia 20190 (Tel: 703-434-3260, Email: dvoudouris@dvlawpllc.com); Ann Harris Clark, Esq., 1820 Michael Faraday Drive, Suite 21, Reston, Virginia 20190 (Tel: 703-434-3260, Email: ahclark@dvlawpllc.com).

INTERESTED BIDDERS are encouraged to contact Substitute Trustees for additional information and materials concerning the Property; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, all such information and materials will be provided without any representations or warranties whatsoever.

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