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t’s not much to look at today. Few who pass the small building on the north side of Ashburn Road likely notice it. The wooden structure, with its chipped paint and boarded-up windows, is upstaged by townhouses on one side and a strip mall with a 7-Eleven and martial arts studio on the other. But the one-room schoolhouse was once the hub for Ashburn’s black community. Now, more than two generations after the building was shuttered at the start of desegregation, a group of middle school students is working to breathe life back into it. “This is a chance to hold on to one of the last
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brown eyes. Her most formative years were spent within the four walls of that wood-framed building. The 82-year-old, who now lives
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GOP Picks Sheriff, Ashburn District Nominees Saturday with the rank of major. So it’s a contest between a boss and a former employee, and it involves allegations over who was responsible for past problems such as budget overruns in the agency and how best to tackle the future, including dealing with heroin distribution and abuse in the county that’s been called the nation’s wealthiest. “I feel very good about the convention,”
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Chapman said last week. He touts an 18 percent reduction in the overall crime rate in the county in the past three years, equipment his office has been able to buy using money confiscated from drug dealers and an employee attrition rate for his department that’s lower than the county government as a whole. Continued on Page 8
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aturday won’t be a time for lounging this week if you’re a Republican in Loudoun. That’s because the county GOP will hold its nominating convention to pick candidates for sheriff and for the Ashburn District seat on the Board of Supervisors.
The official politicking will begin at 10 a.m. that day at Stone Bridge High School. But the campaigning? That’s been going on for weeks, and, in some cases, months. And the four men in the races to be decided are hoping their efforts pay off. The sheriff’s race pits one-term incumbent Mike Chapman against Eric Noble, who retired from the Loudoun Sheriff’s Office in November
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The deteriorated one-room schoolhouse on Ashburn Road served the community’s black students from 1892 to the late 1950s. A group of middle school students has big plans for the once-forgotten building.
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hen Yvonne Neal was told last week that the old Ashburn schoolhouse would be restored, tears formed in her
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