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ver the continued objections of nearby residents and despite a recommendation of denial from the Planning Commission, the Leesburg Town Council last week approved a rezoning application that clears the way for construction of a new corporate headquarters and light manufacturing plant in the Oaklawn development. At the time of the vote, the identity of the company behind the fast-tracked application was kept secret. Town and county government representatives working with the state government to assemble an incentive package for the project were bound by a confidentially agreement to not reveal the name. But after a week of area residents pressing the Town Council for more information, the secret trickled
out. If all goes as planned, K2M will be moving a short distance from Miller Driver to new quarters along the Dulles Greenway. The name of the company began circulating in the days before the council’s 5-2 vote Aug. 12 to approve the rezoning. However, town leaders remained tight-lipped. It was a tiny notation on a public town document about the rezoning application that made reference to K2M. Repeated requests for comment from K2M were declined. In addition to the rezoning, the council signed onto a Governor’s Development Opportunity Fund Grant Performance Agreement under which the town will waive $77,000 in land development fees and provide matching funds in the amount of $150,000 to apply for a Virginia Department of Transportation Economic Development Access Program Award to help build a
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Hundreds lined the streets of Leesburg Friday to welcome the annual America’s 9/11 Ride, with more than 1,000 motorcycle and emergency vehicles. Riders embarked on the three-day journey from Pennsylvania to New York City in honor of the victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. See more photos, page 63.
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tarting with the first day of school Sept. 2, Loudoun County students who are caught with drugs or drug look-alikes will receive a lesser punishment. In an ongoing effort to reform its student discipline model, Loudoun County Public Schools is decreasing the number of days students caught with drugs or imitation drugs for the first time are pulled out of their home school. The regulation change—which was presented as an information item at the School Board’s meeting last Tuesday—will require first-time offenders of the drug policy to receive a 10-day out-of-school suspension followed by mandatory participation in a three-day
substance abuse program, called Insight. Students who are caught distributing drugs would still be punished under the current drug procedure, which calls for a 10-day out-of-school suspension followed by 30 days at Douglass School in Leesburg. Parents have voiced concerns in recent years about the harshness of punishments for students who are first-time offenders, or those who made errors of judgment or even accidents. “The goal is to have the student out of school for a limited amount of time” but still enforce a consequence for violating school policy, Deputy Superintendent Ned Waterhouse told board members at the Aug. 12 meeting. “We think this is going to be better received in the community.” In 2012, a South Riding student who was a
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