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round of golf for those not deterred by the afternoon heat and a press conference on an observation deck atop a manmade waterfall that overlooked the new 18-hole, 7,693-yard course. Trump bought the 800-acre property six years ago when it was home to the Lowes Island Golf Club, and he’s since orchestrated its radical makeover. He reconfigured the holes so that the entire
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Donald J. Trump was in Loudoun County on Tuesday, talking up something other than his recently announced presidential campaign. He was here to pull back the curtain on the new Championship Golf Course at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling. To ceremonially open the course, the businessman and presidential hopeful played host at a daylong press event that included breakfast, a
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Ian Pham, 22, waters vegetables in the new Legacy Farms Summer Garden with the help of Martha Schonberger, president of Legacy Farms, which aims to train adults with autism in agriculture.
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