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112 Edwards Ferry Road, built in the year 1800, is one of the oldest structures in Leesburg’s historic district. It may be the only one of four buildings saved from demolition in the Loudoun County Courthouse expansion project.
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hat six months means is in the eye of the beholder. Those anxious for fall football games and Thanksgiving vittles may feel like November
Her words, however, came at the end of a day that was anything but boring for the two major political parties in Loudoun. The county Republican Committee held a nominating convention at Stone Bridge High School, and settled its two contested—and contentious—races as Sheriff Mike Chapman and Supervisor Ralph M. Buona withstood intraparty challenges. Continued on Page 22
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3, Election Day, will come quickly. And if they didn’t know it, and they heard Phyllis Randall on Saturday night, they learned quickly. The Democratic nominee for Loudoun County chairman made a short but rousing speech to her party mates during the county’s annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner. She encouraged them to keep active, to not fall lazy during the intervening months.
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he county Board of Supervisors this week is expected to take another stab at ending the simmering standoff between Loudoun and Leesburg leaders over the design of the final phase of the courthouse expansion project. While the parties agree that keeping court operations downtown is economically important, efforts to preserve four historic district buildings threaten to derail the project. In working up 13 alternative designs for the construction of a new General District Court building on the former county jail site at the corner of Church Street and Edwards Ferry Road, project architects concluded all of them required the four county-owned buildings to be torn down. But that approach isn’t getting traction with the town’s Board of Architectural Review, which must approve the demolition permits. The BAR has less than two weeks to make its decision. Since the county filed for the demolition permits last November, finding a compromise between those two positions has proven difficult. Last month, supervisors solicited public interest on having someone move the buildings from the site. On Wednesday, they were scheduled to consider four new options—ranging from retaining all four buildings and constructing a taller,
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