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Life in Loudoun County changed dramatically in mid-March when COVID-19 containment efforts shut down gathering places and encouraged folks to hunker down at home. The growing nightlife experience reverted to empty sidewalks. Loudoun’s remarkable roster of dining establishments pivoted to carry-out and delivery-only service. The music scene went quiet. Schools and churches moved online. Wineries and breweries closed. Over the past seven months, gathering spots have begun to reopen, largely in outdoor spaces. But things are far from returning to normal. As families and friends increasingly seek safe places to meet up, we asked some county leaders for their recommendations.
My go-to is Dirt Farm Brewery. There, I can see the whole district. I know the owners, and it’s just my place—I feel at home there, and I just love the view and can’t get enough. — Tony Buffington Blue Ridge District Supervisor, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
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I really enjoy being outdoors so a personal favorite place to meet is the JK Community Farm, a nonprofit farm in Purcellville that JK Moving started to combat hunger. Being outdoors and helping pick and plant crops that get donated to local foodbanks is a fun, safe, healthy and rewarding way to spend a few hours volunteering with family, friends or even work colleagues. — Chuck Kuhn Founder, JK Moving
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The real answer is that we have spruced up our patio and deck so we can entertain friends more comfortably in our own backyard. But … we also like to meet up with friends to kayak, canoe and sail at Sleeter Lake Park. — Scott Ramsey Mayor of Round Hill
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The Board of Supervisors The Loudoun Board of Supervisors has nine members, representing eight election districts and a chairman elected by voters countywide. Supervisors serve four-year terms and all run for office in the same year. The election districts are adjusted each decade to maintain approximately equal populations; currently, there are two large western districts covering the county’s rural west and the transition area, and six smaller districts covering Leesburg and the county’s populous east. Supervisors face an election every four years, and 2019 was that year. It saw Democrats take control of the board, reversing the previous 6-3 Republican majority. It is also another term with a lot of new faces. Supervisors Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin), Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian), Michael R. Turner (D-Ashburn), and Sylvia R. Glass (D-Broad Run) all began their first term in January. Returning supervisors include County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (DAt Large), Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling), Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge), Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg), and Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles)—now the longest-serving supervisor in his third term. This year, for the first time, Randall has her choice of titles—until this year, the state code named the at-large position “County Chairman.” After a change in state law, the first Black woman to chair a county Board of Supervisors in Virginia— and any of her colleagues around the state—may now also be known as Chairwoman, Chairperson, or simply “Chair,” which has been Randall’s title of choice since she was first sworn in four years ago. It is a historically diverse board for Loudoun. In its 2015 election, Loudoun elected its second female chairman-at-large and its first two Black supervisors, Randall and Saines. In 2019, voters brought in another Black supervisor, Glass. Women now hold four of the nine seats. This board is also the most highly paid in Loudoun’s history, as far as the public coffers go. In the previous
term, supervisors narrowly voted to increase the salaries of the next board by 62%. Supervisors are now paid $66,826 annually; the vice chairman is paid $73,363; and the chair is paid $81,100. They will also receive 2% pay increases for each year of their four-year term. Supervisors hire two county staff members themselves: the County Administrator, currently Tim Hemstreet, and the County Attorney, currently Leo Rogers. The county’s staff members and legal team are hired by and serve under them. The board meets at 5 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of the month, and holds a public hearing on the Wednesday of the week following the first meeting of the month. That is schedule is adjusted around some holidays. Meetings of the Board of Supervisors are held in the boardroom at the government center at 1 Harrison St. in downtown Leesburg and are open to the public. The county also televises board meetings on Comcast government channel 23, Verizon FiOS channel 40, and open band channel 40, and webcasts meetings at Loudoun.gov/webcasts. The board has three standing committees. Board members serve as appointed by the chairwoman on the Finance/Government Operations and Economic Development Committee, the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and the Joint Board/ School Board Committee.
serving as president of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments and member of the COG Board of Directors and on COG’s Human Services and Public Safety Policy Committee and the COG Regional Forward Coalition, and as a member of the National Association of Counties Health and Human Resources Committee. She and her husband T.W. have two sons and live in Lansdowne.
County Chair Phyllis J. Randall, At Large Phyllis.Randall@loudoun.gov
Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines, Sterling Koran.Saines@loudoun.gov
Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) began public service with volunteer work in Loudoun County Public Schools. She worked for more than 15 years as a mental health therapist working with substance abusing offenders in an adult detention center. Randall serves on all three board committees, as well as chairing the Virginia Association of Counties Health and Human Resources sub-committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority,
Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling), in his second term, was selected to serve as vice chairman of the board. He serves on the board’s Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Climate Energy and Environment Policy Committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Au-
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Loudoun’s Continuing Evolution Loudoun County was little more than a Native American crossroads when England’s King Charles II doled out the 5-million-acre Northern Neck of Virginia Proprietary to seven noblemen in 1649. The land stretched from the Potomac to the Rappahannock and, by 1730, was carved into Westmoreland, Stafford and Prince William counties. In 1742, Fairfax County was established. Fifteen years later, the Virginia House of Burgesses split Fairfax and named the western portion in honor of John Campbell, the fourth earl of Loudoun, a Scottish nobleman who served as commander-in-chief for the British armed forces in North America and as titular governor of Virginia from 1756 to 1759. He never actually set foot in Loudoun County, however.
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The Divide Northern and western Loudoun was settled in the 18th century by Scots-Irish, German and Quaker farming families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. Eastern and southern Loudoun were settled by residents with English roots who established tobacco plantations. Thus began the contrasting divide that continues to characterize the county. Loudoun has developed as a suburban community in the east, while retaining a rural atmosphere in the west. In the east, work is winding up to extend Metrorail’s Silver Line to Ashburn (five decades after train service last operated in the county); in the west, some 300 miles of roadways remain unpaved (and for the most part residents want them to stay that way). In the east, data centers carrying 70 percent of the world’s internet traffic have emerged from former cornfields; in the west, wineries and farm breweries stand where dairy farms and orchards once dominated. Development Loudoun’s population remained stable even into the 20th century with about 20,000 residents. That changed with an act of Congress—the decision to build Dulles Airport on the county’s eastern border. That action brought public sewer service to the county and spurred the first wave of suburban development, when Marvin T. Broyhill, Sr. spent $2 million to buy 1,762 acres and built Sterling Park. Development moved west to the Ashburn area in the 1980s and by the ’90s, Loudoun annually ranked among the fastest growing counties in the nation as more communities were built east of Rt. 15 and in the county’s seven incorporated towns. While the pace of growth has slowed to more manageable levels, debate over the location and scale of new development continues to be a highly debated public issue. Following a years-long effort to create a new General Plan to guide growth, the county government is now re-writing the Zoning Ordinance that will implement the new community development vision.
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[ T H E C OU N T Y ] continued from page 10 thority Planning Coordination Advisory Committee, and the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission. In 2019 he was appointed to the General Government Steering Committee of the Virginia Association of Counties by the organization’s president. He works in human resources at Washington Gas. He has previously served as an election officer, including as chief election officer in 2014. Saines was born in Fairfax and attended Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He and his son live in Chatham Green. He is engaged to be married.
His final assignment was on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon in support of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he worked in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate. Since retiring from the Air Force in 1997 he has worked mainly in nonprofit development and as a military commentator on cable news, radio and in Newsweek. He chairs the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and serves on the Fiscal Impact Committee. He lives in Lansdowne.
Supervisor Juli E. Briskman, Algonkian Juli.Briskman@loudoun.gov A former journalist and current communications professional, Supervisor Juli E. Briskman serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Finance/Government Operations and Economic DevelBriskman opment Committee and the Joint Board and School Board Committee. She also represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, the Potomac Watershed Roundtable, and is one of the Board’s representatives on the Loudoun County Family Services Board and the Dulles Town Center Community Development Authority. She has also worked in education and as an instructor at local gyms and yoga studios, and volunteered in organizations including Loudoun County Public Schools, the Algonkian Running Club, the River Crest Riptide Swim Team, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of the USA and Galilee United Methodist Church. She has two children.
Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr., Blue Ridge Tony.Buffington@loudoun.gov Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr. (R-Blue Ridge) works for the Capitol Police in Washington, DC. He serves on Transportation and Land Use Committee and is Buffington Loudoun’s representative on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission and the board’s representative on the Coalition of Loudoun Towns. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Buffington grew up in Berryville and lives in Purcellville. He has two sons and is engaged to be married.
Supervisor Michael R. Turner, Ashburn Michael.Turner@loudoun.gov Former U.S. Air Force pilot Supervisor Michael R. Turner graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1973 and served on U.S. Central Command during Operation Desert Storm. Turner
Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass, Broad Run Sylvia.Glass@loudoun.gov Special education teacher Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass works at Leesburg Elementary School, having worked previously as a teaching assistant and cafeteria monitor with Loudoun Glass County Public Schools. She has also worked with the U.S. Defense Contract Audit Agency and later earned her real estate license and worked with ReMax. She serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Joint Board and School Board Committee and the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and is the Board’s representative on the Loudoun County Disability
Services Board. She represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Air Quality Committee and the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission. She is a member of the NAACP Education Committee, and is active with the Loudoun County Public Schools’ Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee, the Loudoun Education Association, and the Loudoun chapter of Moms Demand Action. She and her husband live in Ashburn Village where they raised their four sons. Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner, Catoctin Caleb.Kershner@loudoun.gov Simms Showers LLP partner and attorney Supervisor Caleb E. Kershner is a native of Frederick, MD, and moved to Loudoun in 1995, working as director of federal relations Kershner at the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville. He serves on the board’s Finance/ Government Operations and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Loudoun County Agricultural District Advisory Committee, the Coalition of Loudoun Towns and the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He also serves as an officer on the board of directors for the Loudoun County Fair and Associates, a nonprofit organization which hosts the Loudoun County Fair. He lives in Hamilton with his wife and their four children. Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau, Dulles Matt.Letourneau@loudoun.gov Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles), now Loudoun’s longest-serving current supervisor, is his third term and continues to chair the board’s Finance, Government SerLetourneau vices and Operations Committee and Economic Development
Committee. He also represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) Board of Directors, representing Virginia as a Principal Director, and serves on the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the Republican communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and press secretary to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. A native of Shrewsbury, MA, he works as managing director of Communications and Media for the Global Energy Institute at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and lives with his wife and four children in Little River Commons. Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd, Leesburg Kristen.Umstattd@loudoun.gov Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd cochairs the board’s Joint Board and School Board Committee and serves on the Board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee. She Umstattd is also one of the board’s representatives on the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee and the Family Services Board, and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Chesapeake Bay and Water Resources Policy Committee. She previously served on the Leesburg Town Council from 1992 to 2016, and as Leesburg mayor from 2002 to 2016. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she has served in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the CIA. She and her husband live in Leesburg where they practice law.
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Brenda Sheridan, Chairwoman Sterling District Residence: Sterling Phone: 571-233-0307 E-mail: Brenda.Sheridan@lcps.org Brenda Sheridan is serving her third term on the board, and her first year as chairwoman after serving the past four years as vice chair. A native of upstate New York, Sheridan is a 22-year resident of Sterling. She was a substitute teacher from 2004 to 2011, when she was appointed to finish the term of a previous board member, before being elected the following year. She works for Perspecta as a security analyst. She and her husband, Keith, have two children, graduates of Park View High School. Sheridan is chairwoman of the board’s Discipline Committee and Equity Committee, and is a member of the Legislative & Policy Committee.
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Atoosa Reaser, Vice Chairwoman Algonkian District Residence: Cascades Phone: 571-291-5325 E-mail: Atoosa.Reaser@lcps.org Atoosa Reaser is serving her first term on the board and was elected by the board to serve as vice chairwoman. A Loudoun resident for nearly 20 years, Reaser is both a licensed teacher and a practicing attorney. She has served as an executive board member for the school division’s Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee, a classroom volunteer, PTA leader, and substitute teacher. She serves a chairwoman of the board’s Legislative & Policy Committee and as a member of the Discipline Committee and the Joint Committee with the Board of Supervisors.
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[ S C HO O L S ] continued from page 14 on the board. She was born into a family of educators and raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley. She earned a degree in library science from Shepherd University. She and her husband, Bobby, have lived in Leesburg for 23 years and have two children. She has served as an educator, PTA volunteer and Girl Scout troop leader. Barts chairs the board’s Communication & Outreach Committee and serves on the Charter School Committee, Human Resources and Talent Development
Committee and Student Support & Services Committee. John Beatty Catoctin District Residence: Lovettsville Phone: 571-440-1410 E-mail: John.Beatty@lcps.org John Beatty is serving his first term on the board.
He was born in Portsmouth and grew up in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer science and has worked at a several startups in Northern Virginia, focusing on iOS, Android, and Ruby on Rails software development. He works as the IT director at a private school where he also teaches Python and Java to high school students. He lives on a farm between Lovettsville and Waterford with his wife, Katie, and their five children. Beatty serves on the Curriculum & Instruction Committee.
PAGE 15 Denise Corbo At Large Residence: The Preserve at Goose Creek Phone: 571-246-3766 E-mail: Denise.Corbo@lcps.org Denise Corbo is serving her first term on the board. Growing up in a military family, she has lived in Loudoun County for the past 33 years. After receiving a degree in business psychology and a master’s in education from Marymount University, she taught kindergarten and continues on page 16
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[ L E E SBU R G ] Leesburg Government The Town of Leesburg operates under the council-manager form of government, which divides responsibilities between an elected mayor and Town Council and an appointed town manager. The council determines town policy, adopts all ordinances and resolutions, sets the annual tax rates and adopts an annual budget based on a staff-prepared draft. The town manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of town affairs, implementing the Town Council’s policies, and hiring a staff to assist in that work.
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The Leesburg Town Council has seven members. There is currently one unfilled vacancy on the council because of the resignation of Josh Thiel in May. That term will expire Dec. 31. The mayor serves a two-year term, while all other council members are elected for four-year terms. Council member terms are staggered, with three seats filled each election cycle. Elections occur in November of even-numbered years. This November, the seats of Mayor Kelly Burk, council members Ron Campbell and Tom Dunn, and Thiel’s former seat will be on the ballot. Campbell and Dunn are not seeking re-election; however, Campbell is running for the mayor’s seat. Council members are paid an annual stipend of $15,600. The mayor is paid $16,200 per year.
was elected as the Leesburg District representative to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. She served on the county board from 2008 to 2011. She re-joined the Town Council following an April 2012 special election, and was re-elected to a new four-year term in 2014. She was elected to her first mayoral term in November 2016, and is running for re-election to a third term this November. Burk represents the town on the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Advisory Committee, and Virginia Municipal League’s Executive Committee and Legislative Committee. A Leesburg resident since 1979, Burk was a special education teacher with Loudoun County Public Schools until her retirement in 2014. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from George Washington University and a master’s degree in middle school curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. She is a past president of the Loudoun Education Association and served on the board of directors of the Virginia Education Association from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, the Loudoun Commission on Women honored her as the Woman of the Year for Education and Training. She and her husband, Larry, have two adult sons and two grandchildren.
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Kelly Burk is serving her second term as Leesburg mayor. Burk was first elected to the Town Council in 2004 and, three years later, she
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re-elected to his fifth four-year term last November. He was appointed to a twoyear term as vice mayor by his council peers last year, and previously served in the same post from July 2004 to June 2006. He is currently the longest-serving member of the council. Martinez represents the council on VML’s General Laws Committee and the Loudoun County Transit Advisory Board. Before his election to council, he served on the Loudoun County Parks and Recreation Commission, as well as the Loudoun County Community Services Advisory Board. Originally from California, Martinez is a U.S. Air Force (Vietnam era) veteran. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer science from Portland State University. Martinez has worked as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration. He founded Heritage High School Project Grad, and helped to co-found the Boys and Girls Club of Loudoun County and La Voz, a Hispanic advocacy group. He has served as the vice chairman on the board of directors for the Paxton Campus, which is a full-service organization for children with special needs. He has also been appointed by the governor to serve on the Aerospace Advisory Council. He
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has lived in Leesburg with his wife, Doris, and children since 1993. Martinez has five children and six grandchildren with another on the way.
Ronald Campbell Email: rcampbell@leesburgva.gov Ron Campbell was elected to the Town Council in November 2016. He is running for mayor in November’s election. Prior to his election to council, he served on the Technology and Communications Commission and the Environmental Commission. In 1992 he served on two Virginia state task forces on sexual violence, one dealing with institutions of higher education and one with K-12 schools, led by then Lt. Governor Don Beyer. Campbell represents the council on VML’s Community and Economic Development Committee. He is also a member of the Loudoun County NAACP and Leesburg Daybreak Rotary, and formerly served on the Loudoun County Criminal Justice Board. Campbell has a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Heidelberg University, and a master’s degree in counseling, human services and guidance from
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Montclair State University. In addition, he has completed doctoral coursework in human sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a certified planning commissioner. Campbell is also currently enrolled in the Harvard University Kennedy School for the Public Leadership Credential. Campbell started his career with a Wall Street firm, and was a licensed SEC representative, providing wealth management strategies and selling mutual funds. He went on to work in higher education administration for over 27 years, including as the associate vice president for Student
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Development and Athletics at the University of Minnesota where he was responsible for a budget of over $100 million. In 2000, he established his own business development consulting company, College Business Concepts, LLC. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the CEO for the National Association of College and University Auxiliary Services in Charlottesville. He currently serves as the executive director of the Loudoun Freedom Center, which is dedicated to the preservation of African American history in Loudoun County. In May, Campbell was elected to serve on the board of directors for the Waterford Foundation Inc. Campbell is a member of Holy & Whole Life Changing Ministries International Church in Lansdowne. He and his wife Barbara have been Leesburg residents since 2001, and have four adult children and seven grandchildren.
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four-year term. He recently announced he will not seek re-election this November after serving 12 years on the council. He has represented the town on various VML committees. Also, he has represented the town on the Government Center Joint Task Force, the School Naming Committee, and the Law Enforcement Committee. He also served as a liaison to the Board of Architectural Review, the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Thomas Balch Library Commission, the Infrastructure subcommittee and the Tourism Historic Preservation subcommittee. Dunn also served a four-year term on the Loudoun County Planning Commission as the Leesburg District representative from 2011-2015. Prior to being elected to the council, Dunn served on the Leesburg Planning Commission and the Leesburg Economic Development Commission for a combined nine years. Dunn holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Mary Washington College. He is a Certified Public Planner and has 16 years’ experience in mortgage banking. He is currently the president of VCR Inc., a marketing company he founded. He is also a certified in-home care provider. He served eight years as an Officer of Combat Engineers with the U.S. Army. Dunn has been and continues to be an active community volunteer, having held various volunteer positions with the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Loudoun School of Ballet, Little League, Youth Football, Church and Ball’s Bluff PTO. He directed youth summer camps at Morven Park, Oatlands and the Loudoun Museum and has volunteered as a tour guide at Balls Bluff Battlefield. Dunn has been a Leesburg resident in Potomac Crossing since 1998, and has three children who all attended public school in Leesburg.
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Suzanne Fox Email: sfox@leesburgva.gov Suzanne Fox was first elected to the Town Council in November 2014, and served as vice mayor from 2016 to 2018. She is the council’s representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Planning Coordination Advisory Committee. Fox is the owner of Legacy Weddings, a wedding planning/coordinating business, and has performed thousands of local wedding ceremonies as a Civil Celebrant for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Brigham Young University. Fox and her family moved to Leesburg in 2003.
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[ L E E SBU R G ] continued from page 20 port Commission, Technology & Communications Commission, and Tree Commission. A Fairfax County native, Steinberg attended Virginia Tech where he served one year in the Corps of Cadets Army ROTC and studied engineering, polit-
ical science and theatre. Steinberg and his wife, KD Kidder, moved to Loudoun County in 1975, and began their business, Photoworks, a photography, imaging services, and framing business, in 1979. They have operated it ever since at the same location on the corner of Loudoun and King Streets in downtown Leesburg. Photoworks and the Potomac Gallery were the founders of the down-
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town’s First Friday Gallery Walk, now the very successful event known as First Friday. Steinberg has studied martial arts since the early 1980’s and holds black belts in three disciplines, including a Master level (5th degree) in taekwondo. He has been an instructor for Grand Master Eunggil Choi at United States Taekwondo Martial Arts Academy(in Leesburg for more than
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20 years. Over the years he has been involved in a variety of downtown business organizations, serving as president for what was the Leesburg Downtown Business Association. He is currently a member of the local branch of the NAACP. Steinberg and his wife moved to Leesburg in 2008, where they live with KD’s mother, Doris Kidder, and their two cats.
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The Town of Hamilton is the first of Loudoun’s six rural towns visitors will come across when headed west past Leesburg. There, you won’t see much about the town in the headlines, but business is being conducted by the Town Council and small town staff as usually as any other town. In recent years, they’ve worked to revamp the Hamilton Community Park and install more sidewalk along Colonial Highway. The Hamilton Town Council has also been home to some of the longest-serving council members in Loudoun history. Earlier this year, Councilman John Unger stepped down from his post after 36 years of service—making him the longestserving council member in Loudoun. Last year, Michael Snyder resigned after 29 years—making him the county’s thirdlongest serving council member.
The Town of Hillsboro, as the “gateway to western Loudoun,” is a major cutthrough for thousands of commuters daily and will soon be home to an improved, safer road network. The town’s $14.3 million traffic calming and pedestrian safety project has been underway since March and is expected to wrap up by early April 2021. That project is installing roundabouts and additional sidewalks and is burying utility lines. The town this year also saw work on its water project complete, which removed the town’s 25-year-old boil-water notice and now provides residents with an additional 15 gallons of water each minute.
The Town of Lovettsville, also known as The German Settlement and Virginia’s northernmost town, is famous for its German roots dating back to the early 1730s. Although its 2020 Oktoberfest was canceled amid the pandemic, the town continues to look ahead. The town government is even poised to dedicate a new town office by the end of October—a project that overcrowded town staffers have been anticipating for more than a decade.
The Town of Middleburg is Loudoun’s southernmost town and is situated in the middle of wine and horse country. There, visitors will find dozens of shopping and dining options. They’ll also come across lodging amenities, like the Red Fox Inn and Salamander Resort & Spa, which recently announced that it would expand the town’s population by offering 49, $2 million homes in the coming years. The ever-popular Christmas in Middleburg event this year has been canceled, but town leaders are still planning multiple smaller-scale events.
Population: 169
Median Age: 32
Households: 59
Approximate Size: 0.88 square miles
Population: 629 Households: 219 Median Age: 41 Approximate Size: 0.25 square miles
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Council Meetings: 7 p.m. second or third Monday of each month at the Town Office, 53 E. Colonial Hwy. Stipend: Mayor, $15,000 per annum, Councilmembers, $1,200 each per annum Town Manager: None Find more information at hamiltonva.gov.
Households: 802
Approximate Size: 0.27 square miles
Council Meetings: 7 p.m. third Tuesday of each month at the Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike Vance
Stipend: None Town Manager: None Find more information at hillsborova.gov.
Households: 411 Median Age: 54 Approximate Size: 1.04 square miles Mayor: Bridge Littleton
Council: Vice Mayor David Steadman, David Earl, Renee Edmonston, Chris Hornbaker, Joy Pritz, Buchanan Smith
Mayor: Roger Vance Council: Vice Mayor Amy Marasco, Claudia Forbes, Bill Johnston, Stephen Moskal, Laney Oxman
Population: 834
Mayor: Nate Fontaine
Median Age: 41
Mayor: David Simpson Council: Vice Mayor Kenneth Wine, Elizabeth Gaucher, Craig Green, Rebecca Jones, Cathy Salter, Greg Wilmoth
Population: 2,198
Council Meetings: 7:30 p.m. second and third/fourth Thursdays of the month at the Town Office, 6 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Fontaine
Stipend: Mayor, $2,000 per quarter; Councilmembers, $500 per quarter Town Manager: Rob Ritter Find more information at lovettsvilleva.gov.
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Council: Vice Mayor Philip Miller, Chris Bernard, Kevin Daly, Bud Jacobs, Darlene Kirk, Peter Leonard-Morgan, Cindy Pearson
Council Meetings: 6 p.m. second and fourth Thursdays of each month at the Town Office, 10 W. Marshall St. Stipend: Mayor, $500 per month; Councilmembers $200 each per month Town Manager: Danny Davis Find more information at middleburgva.gov.
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Population: 10,178
Population: 656
Households: 2,953
Households: 268
Median Age: 36
Median Age: 39
Approximate Size: 3.42 square miles
Approximate Size: 0.21 square miles
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The Town of Purcellville is western Loudoun’s largest town and home to a diverse culture of residents and businesses. For years, the town has remained virtually the same size around its borders, but within, business has been booming— fulfilling Purcellville’s unofficial title as “the hub of western Loudoun.” Although the pandemic has canceled most town events, residents have remained engaged with their local government by keeping up with Town Council meetings and even proposing new town committees, like the Community Policing Advisory Committee, which the council is expected to establish on Oct. 13.
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Council: Vice Mayor Mary Anne Graham, Donald Allen, Jesse Howe, Paula James, Melissa Hoffmann, Michael Hummel
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Round Hill The Town of Round Hill, Loudoun’s westernmost town, is centered on outdoor recreation and healthy living. Those mottos are exemplified in the town’s formation of the Round Hill Outdoors Committee in 2017, its opening of Sleeter Lake Park in August 2018 and its hosting of the United States Croquet Association’s 2019 Southeast Regional 9-Wicket Tournament. The town is now focused on two projects totaling $7 million that will connect Franklin Park with the town via a network of sidewalks and trails.
Council Meetings: 7:30 p.m. third Wednesday of each month (work sessions on the first Wednesday of each month) at the Town Office, 23 Main St. Ramsey
Stipend: None Town Administrator: Melissa Hynes Find more information at roundhillva.org.
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