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A Safer Pendleton Street
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Daniel Morrow
t its July regular meeting, Town Council approved changes to the number and distribution of parking spaces on Pendleton Street. Council acted, it said, in response to “concerns raised by town residents regarding vehicular conflicts in the narrow portion of N. Pendleton between the Safeway entrance and the Upper Crust Bakery.” Despite strenuous objections from the Stine family, owners of the Upper Crust, Council directed “that the two short-term stopping spaces along the bakery frontage be relocated to safer places within the same block.” According to Council, “One new short-term parking space will be created just south of the old stopping area” in front of the bakery, “where the Town Police and the Town’s traffic engineer have found a space can be safely located.” Two new “short-term spaces will be created on the east side of N. Pendleton Street by removing two of the existing metered spaces adjacent to the Safeway.” According to Police Chief A. J. Panebianco, the Middleburg Police Department will gradually “phase in the enforcement of no parking along the bakery frontage” and do its best to “assist the community in adapting to the new parking plan.” During Council’s late June work session Town Administrator Martha Semmes reported that “she had kept the Stines apprised of the situation,” had “let them know the Town was doing tests” to determine how best to improve the safety of the intersection, and had provided the family “with copies of the staff reports.” Despite those efforts, she reported, the family was still concerned about the impact of changes on their business. After lengthy discussion and analysis of current traffic patterns on Pendleton Street, Council remains convinced, according to a press release, that its new plan offers “a fair solution to an existing traffic and pedestrian safety issue that will increase safety for all while respecting a long-standing business.” Officer Mark Putnam
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Library Grand Re-opening Dennis Cotter, President of the Friends of the Middleburg Public Library reported to Council that the new library, double the size of the old, and built with funds raised privately by the Friends and their supporters, would hold it’s “Grand Opening Ceremony” in September, on the Saturday after Labor Day. The library will be closed for roughly three weeks before the Grand Opening while staff and friends essentially move the old library into the new addition, completely refurbish the old building, and then re-arrange. Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of the library staff, its friends, supporters and patron, those three weeks will mark the only time the library has closed during the entire construction process. Marvin Simms Honored Middleburg has honored Marvin Simms Maintenance supervisor for his ten years of service with the Town at a luncheon held at Town Hall. Mayor Betsy Davis presented Simms with both an official certificate of recognition from the Town of Middleburg and a check.
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Middleburg Police Chief A. J. Panebianco administered his department’s Honor Oath to the newest member of the Middleburg Police force, Officer Mark Putnam, at Town Council’s regular monthly meeting on July 11. Putnam’s wife and son both participated in the ceremonies instituted by Panebianco as an outward and visible sign of each officer’s commitment to the highest ethical standards of law enforcement. Putnam had been officially sworn in by the Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court on July 2, 2013. He found himself in serious action only a day later. On his first full day on the job, Putnam and Officer Heather Fadely responded
to an emergency call to a house in the 600 block of West Washington Street. There they found the seriously wounded victim of a gunshot wound. Both officers performed their duties admirably, according to Chief Panebianco, as the victim was helicoptered out and the County Sheriff’s Department began its forensic investigation. The shooting victim later died of her wounds. Less than twenty-four hours later Lieutenant Mike Prince and Chief Panebianco responded to the same address to find the victim’s husband dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At press time the County Sheriff’s investigation of the double tragedy was still in progress.
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