Morning Minute

County supervisors push on data center sprawl and housing prices in suburban Loudoun; it could soon be against school system rules to vape on the job.

Drug Court gets its first participant; the Riverside High School Marching Rams have notched two state championships in the four years since they formed.

Plans for a new Aldie fire house hit a stumbling block, but the county government presses ahead; Telos Corporation donates $25,000 to help vulnerable children and their families.

Sterling Volunteer Rescue is looking for new recruits; a man drowns working on a dam on Goose Creek.

Döner Bistro is on the move; Loudoun United FC plays their first (sort-of) home game.

County supervisors start work on the county's first-ever Urban Policy Area; the School Board debates whether to stop sending Loudoun students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax.

Sugarland Run Elementary goes from a focus school to a model school in five years; Loudoun County Public Library visits Awesome Con.

A new Civil War historic park opens near Middleburg; the Loudoun County Combined Fire/Rescue System finally gets Kirkpatrick Fire and Rescue Station.

Leesburg Town Council members see an eroding relationship with the county government as free government software goes away; two Loudoun 8th graders head to a national chemistry challenge.

Leesburg residents ask the town council to stop spraying the Town Branch with an herbicide called glyphosate; the Loudoun Education Foundation is once again raising money to help feed hungry students.

Supervisors get a ranking of the worst intersections without stoplights in Loudoun; the Loudoun Museum looks for ideas.

Step Up Loudoun has a tie for first place; the Town of Purcellville is down to three breweries.

The Loudoun Chamber's Valor Awards recognize some of the heroes of the past year; Rockwool opponents travel to Denmark to meet the shareholders and CEO personally.

Loudoun County Fire-Rescue recognizes some of its standouts; a Loudoun Valley High School student wins the national speed skating championship.

Kincora and the Children's Science Center gather to celebrate their progress; Food for Fines is back.

County supervisors question some of the studies behind the latest draft of the new comprehensive plan; the school system's new Ad Hoc Committee on Equity holds its first meeting.

An anti-corruption nonprofit and a group of environmentalists win a legal battle to reopen the Potomac around Trump National golf club; a junior at Stone Bridge High School makes chess history.

Loudoun's drug court opens once again; a Lovettsville woman's search for a kidney is over, thanks to her husband's fellow airmen.

The county's easternmost agricultural district is going away; Loudoun gets ready for the 2020 census.

The Planning Commission starts the countdown on the new comprehensive plan; three students from Foxcroft School win national awards for their art.

A fatal crash on Evergreen Mills Road provides the lesson for a first-of-its-kind lifesaving technique in the region; an Air Force recruiter will not be prosecuted for bringing a gun into Tuscarora High School.

Leesburg nonprofit ECHO adapts to changing federal regulations that put 20 people with disabilities out of a job; the Arc of Loudoun celebrates three people for their work supporting people with disabilities.

The comprehensive plan finally gets to the Board of Supervisors—as election year politics take hold; supervisors approve a huge Metrorail-area development.

Local government staff and historians race to document all of Loudoun's historic burial grounds; Purcellville Town Manager David Mekarski's proposed budget defers tax increases but not budget increases.

For the second time, a former senior officer under Sheriff Michael Chapman is now trying to unseat him; a man from West Virginia is arrested in charged in the death of a Bluemont man on the side of Rt. 7 in Clarke County.