November 17, 2021
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NFL Hall of Famer Sam Huff dies at 87
Middleburg resident was beloved football broadcaster By Liam Bowman
Piedmont Journalism Foundation
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS LEES
Sam Huff of Middleburg played professional football for the N.Y. Giants and the Washington Redskins.
For much of the 1950s and 1960s, Sam Huff was perhaps the most feared linebacker in pro football. Night after night – first for the New York Giants, then the Washington Redskins – Huff would dart across the field to cause havoc for his opponents. He could tackle with unmatched ferocity. And the crowd loved it. Huff, a 1982 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee and long-time Middleburg resident, passed away at a Winchester hospital on Saturday, Nov. 13. He was 87. In his 13 years as a player and nearly 40 years as a sports broadcaster, Huff’s world revolved around football. To him, the game was all about physical toughness and the exciting brutality of collision. Football, he liked to say, was “war without guns.” See HUFF, page 9
Community celebrates military veterans By Coy Ferrell
Fauquier Times Staff Writer
Dozens of military veterans and community members gathered Thursday, Nov. 11, in Warrenton to celebrate the men and women who have served their country in uniform. The annual Veterans Day ceremony, held at the Fauquier Veterans Memorial on Hospital Hill, featured music from the Liberty High School marching band; the school’s Junior Officers’ Reserve Training Corps also participated. “It doesn’t matter if they fought in a hot war zone or served in a cold one. Their service mattered,” said Lt. Col. Linda Jolley in a passionate keynote speech. Jolley, a retired U.S. Army nurse who grew up in Crest Hill, especially emphasized the importance of supporting veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. More than 30,000 U.S. military veterans have killed themselves since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, she pointed out, more than four times the number of service members who have been killed in combat during the same time period. See VETERANS, page 2
FAUQUIER TIMES STAFF PHOTO/COY FERRELL
1st Sgt. Dave Jolley (right), who served as a combat medic in the Vietnam War, applauds at the conclusion of a keynote address given by his wife, Lt. Col. Linda Jolley.
FAUQUIER TIMES STAFF PHOTO/ ROBIN EARL
A trench on Main Street in Marshall shows the placement of a duct bank that will later carry utility lines.
County juggles multiple construction projects in Marshall Discovery of old water, sewer lines causes minor delays By Robin Earl
Fauquier Times Staff Writer
The Marshall Streetscape Improvements project is in full swing. Visitors to the area will find construction fences and orange and white barrels cordoning off the north side of Marshall’s Main Street. Two lanes of traffic – one in each direction -- remain open and the sidewalks are clear. Last week, traffic was reconfigured east of Rectortown Road so that the traffic pattern is consistent all through the area. “It’s a straight shot through town,” said Anne Michael Greene, a local real estate agent and vice president of Marshall Moving Forward, a nonprofit formed to help and promote businesses. “They wanted to set up the cones so the traffic pattern would stay the same no matter what part of the street they were working on.” See MARSHALL, page 8
KETTLE RUN FINISHES 9-2: Early playoff loss ends football season. SPORTS, Pages 24-27
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