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he blaster in charge at Loudoun Quarries was issued a notice of violation and blasting was temporarily shut down at the facility after reports of bowling ball-size rocks falling from the sky in Sterling last week. Investigators from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy were at the quarry May 22 and were to return there this week, agency spokeswoman Tarah Kesterson said. One man was injured by debris from a rock and was stitched up at an area hospital, Kesterson said, and the Loudoun Department of Fire, Rescue & Emergency Management said there was other damage after the May 21 incident. Perhaps the most talked-about scene was at a NAPA auto parts store in Sterling. Rocks showered the parking lot, damaging cars and breaking a store window. And at a nearby home, a large rock crashed through the roof into a bedroom. Some residents first thought a meteor shower was to blame. The county fire department and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration also have been
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he Loudoun Quarries made negative headlines last week because of a blasting incident, but a developer is banking on the property generating a lot of good news in the future. No one was seriously injured, but four reports of rocks flying out of the quarry jolted Sterling on May 21, prompting regulatory agencies and emer-
gency crews to scrutinize the operation. And as if word of large stones falling from the sky weren’t weird enough, the event also made for a strange juxtaposition: It came less than 48 hours after a plan for the Waterside development was presented to the Loudoun County Planning Commission. That proposal calls for filling Loudoun Quarries with water to create a 54-acre lake that would be the centerpiece of a 335-acre project east of Rt.
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former officeholder to instead endorse incumbent Sheriff Mike Chapman. Chapman, a Republican, defeated independents Simpson and Ronald D. Speakman in 2011, and he also weathered a GOP nomination challenge this month from retired Sheriff’s Office Maj. Eric Noble.
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that he is planning to be on the Nov. 3 ballot. He said he would make a formal announcement next week. He told The Bull Elephant political blog earlier this month that he was pondering a bid, and the Loudoun County Republican Committee issued a statement Tuesday morning that urged the
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