Morning Minute

County supervisors are set to vote on controversial fixes for Rt. 15; Sen. Mark Warner calls for more federal transportation spending.

A $236.5 million sale of 424 acres at Dulles International Airport could be a payout for all of Loudoun; a 16-year-old from Leesburg is weighing offers from some of the top college basketball programs in the country.

The Academies of Loudoun reinvents the cafeteria; parents, students and staff at Creighton's Corner Elementary rally to collect cases of water for South Carolina.

Former Lovettsville council member Renee Edmonston says she left office after 67 days because of a fellow council member's "harsh, obvious and candid disrespect;" the Leesburg Town Council approves a memorial to Loudoun's lynchings.

For the first time in quite a while, new school enrollment is down; the Leesburg Town Council rejects a closed-door meeting with the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Supervisors approve a plan to bring a professional soccer team, stadium, and the D.C. United headquarters to Loudoun; a woman who went viral in a picture giving President Donald Trump's motorcade the bird will run for the Board of Supervisors.

The wheels could be turning for a business to give people golf cart rides around Leesburg, depending on the Town Council; Hamilton debates whether to allow coffee sales at a gun shop.

Florence is coming to town, so here's what to do; the person who built a multi-million dollar business out of community journalism and left his mark on Loudoun passes away.

Planning Commissioners debate doing away with the Transition Policy Area; a former insurance agent goes to federal prison for fraudulently trying to get someone else's life insurance benefits.

County supervisors ask federal legislators to legalize industrial hemp; School Board members and school administrators tackle attendance rates.

Loudoun lawmakers look for answers on plans for an insulation plant in West Virginia; Loudoun NAACP president Philip Thompson seeks a memorial to the three known lynchings in the county.

A 16-year-old marks his first solo flight; police investigate a string of robberies at 7-Eleven stores.

A Park View High School celebrity alum makes a surprise announcement; Heritage High School finally gets its artificial turf field.

Winemakers and brewers are starting to serve beer and wine side-by-side for the first time; K2M sells for $1.4 billion.

The Leesburg Town Council wants the option to study whether to become a city; the Loudoun General District Court debuts a mental health docket.

The state says the school system's policies on restraining and isolating special education students are okay; Old Ox Brewery spills over into a new tasting room and beer garden in Middleburg.

Sully Elementary celebrates 50 years since a hurried start; restaurant week continues with AhSo.

It's restaurant week, and Wine Kitchen Hearth & Steak in Purcellville is going out in style; Loudoun health department officials are looking for people who may have been exposed to measles. The Morning Minute is back!

At 15, Deirdre Jane Prigge becomes one of the youngest—if not the youngest—person to graduate from a Loudoun high school; After more than a decade, the school system gets ready to open the Academies of Loudoun.

For the ninth time in 105 years—and for the first time in 15 years—one of Loudoun's oldest and most historic businesses changes hands; if the county's new comprehensive plan stays on its current track, the School Board may need even more schools than they planned for.

Loudoun schools will let swing, see-saws and merry-go-rounds onto playgrounds; the Planning Commission considers where to put more housing.

The first Taste of Leesburg packs the streets; a judge hands down sentences adding up to 280 years for a teenager in a gang-related killing.

After years of planning and months of delay, Sleeter Lake Park will open this week; the Planning Commission tells the Board of Supervisors "we're done when we're done" with the new county comprehensive plan.

After years of work to get Hillsboro addresses recognized by the postal service again, some people outside town wish they hadn't; a Loudoun high school will, for the first time in its history, not field a varsity football team.

Plans for a factory in Ranson, WV have some Loudouners worried about air quality here; a Little League team from South Riding comes only one game short of playing in the World Series.