Morning Minute

The county hopes to have a new fire station—scheduled to open in winter of last year—open by May 1 of next year; a Loudoun County Public Schools employee is accused of upskirting at Woodgrove High School.

The Loudoun Education Foundation announces a $100,000 gift to Lucketts Elementary School; three teens are charged in a sexual assault in a locker room at Tuscarora High School.

Loudoun wineries come together to raise money for a partially quadriplegic winegrower so she can keep doing the work she loves; the Leesburg Town Council opens up Leesburg Executive Airport to international flights.

A budget crunch could mean higher real estate taxes next year; School Board member Eric DeKenipp resigns.

County supervisors and the Bob and Dee Leggett Foundation have assembled almost 900 acres for a state park in Loudoun; after a tough year, Loudoun wineries celebrate the Loudoun Wine Awards.

County leaders start the wheels turning on some ideas to encourage affordable housing; a deputy finds a human skull in the woods.

Purcellville residents will have to wait until spring for cell phone service to come back; incumbent Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk leads the field in campaign fundraising and spending.

Bullets and Beans will have to wait a little longer for a decision on the beans; a baseball legend is coming to Leesburg.

After an alleged sexual assault in a locker room involving members of the Tuscarora High School football team, administrators say the school is safe and the football team will continue to play; the Town of Purcellville will spend some money upgrading their police department.

County supervisors look ahead to a tough budget year; Loudoun's newest park formally opens in Round Hill.

Expanding Medicaid in Virginia will mean the county needs to hire 9 people; the Town of Round Hill is looking for a new town council member and planning commissioner.

Some of the most vulnerable Loudouners get around on four legs, and Loudoun County Animal Services goes the extra mile to help them out; elementary schools in the southeastern end of the county are overcrowded and getting more students than expected.

Two iconic, history Loudoun buildings get new life; the sheriff plans an opioid summit.

The latest round of Republican-led tax reform has got some nonprofit leaders worried what that will mean for charitable giving; a 14-year-old Woodgrove High School student makes her professional New York debut.

Loudouners living near farms complain about the use of treated sewage sludge as fertilizer; the name of Willard Intermediate School serves as a reminder to a community condemned and cleared away to make room for Dulles International Airport.

Leesburgers get a look at plans for the old C.S. Monroe Campus, which may soon have a new building and a different school.

Loudoun County supervisors see few options to fight a factory across the West Virginia border; a middle school dean is charged with assaulting a student who was vaping in a bathroom.

The Lovettsville Town Council will choose from among four people to fill two vacant seats, and some of those candidates are familiar; the man charged with making threats against a staff member at Lucketts Elementary—setting off protest from parents—is found not guilty.

The Loudoun Laurel Foundation welcomes the newest Loudoun Laureates; Lucketts Elementary School parents say they'll keep their kids out of school until the principal is put on leave.

The Coalition of Loudoun Towns has had a look at work on the new county comprehensive plan, and they're worried what it will mean for the west; the Leesburg Town Council gets behind an idea to help landowners afford to protect their land from development.

For the second year in a row, every public school in Loudoun is fully accredited; a meeting on plans for Rt. 15 brings out the divisions in that community.

The Loudoun County Farm Bureau vows to take the lead on Envision Loudoun; the Town of Leesburg moves to annex the land just purchased by Microsoft.

The school system equips more than 40,000 students with personal Chromebooks; Leesburgers rally to name an alley after a local icon.

Supervisors set targets for where they'd like to see a new bridge across the Potomac; Lovettsville moves to fill empty seats in the town government and town council.

Loudoun County supervisors will not push the General Assembly to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment; projects to widen Rt. 15 and Rt. 7 near Leesburg get rolling.