Morning Minute

Local state senators vote down a bill for increased oversight over the Dulles Greenway's tolls; Lovettsville gets ready to elect two council members.

Purcellville hires a deputy chief of police; Buzzed at the Bee is back.

State delegate and former foster child David Reid pushes a bill to let adopted kids keep in contact with their birth parents, if appropriate; the Hillsboro Town Council awards this year's Community Service Awards.

The Loudoun Chamber honors community leaders over the past year; Loudoun United gets its first head coach.

The company planning an insulation factory a few miles from Loudoun's border responds to concerns from Attorney General Mark Herring; a woman from Potomac Station tries to raise awareness of the number one killer of women in the U.S.

Firefighters fight for better workers' comp when they get cancer; suspension rates drop in the school system, but disparities for minorities remain.

VDOT unexpectedly dumps 350 tons of rock onto the banks of Catoctin Creek; water and sewer rates are set to go up in Leesburg again.

The county takes oversight of developer-controlled traffic studies; Loudoun's first culinary incubator opens at Village at Leesburg.

The Dulles Greenway backs out of a deal to trade some distance-based tolling for ten more years of guaranteed toll increases; two men plead guilty to running a prostitution business for three years.

So far there are twice as many Democrats running for office in Loudoun, and as of the new year they have raised twelve times as much money; it's time to nominate farmers for farmer trading cards.

Loudoun gets a new Circuit Court judge, picked over the objections of Loudoun's legal community and state representatives; school Superintendent Eric Williams unveils his idea for a performing arts elementary school.

A federal court rules Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall violated by a Loudouner's constitutional rights by deleting a comment and blocking him on Facebook; the School Board sets policies on restraining and secluding students.

Supervisors try to cut furloughed federal employees a break; Purcellville is the sixth Loudoun town to formally express concern about plans for an insulation factory in West Virginia.

The 33rd State Senate District stays in Democratic hands, triggering another special election; Superintendent Eric Williams unveils his proposed school system budget.

Budget season is underway; the School Board considers naming a school after The North Star, Frederick Douglass's abolitionist newspaper.

Tomorrow is election day again; Round Hill becomes the fifth Loudoun town to pass a resolution on the potential negative environmental impacts of a planned factory nearby in West Virginia.

A state park in northwestern Loudoun is closer than ever; Loudoun County offers places to recycle those Christmas trees.

The cost of construction keeps going up for the Loudoun taxpayer; the Leesburg Town Council goes back to square one on preserving the Sycolin Cemetery.

Leesburg is now the third town to voice opposition to plans for an insulation factory in Ranson, WV; Loudouners pour the pressure on to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment at a public hearing with state lawmakers.

Loudoun's legal community pushes back on an apparent fast-tracking to a judicial nomination; a couple from Maryland goes to federal prison for stealing ATMs.

The Academies of Loudoun nursing program can stay open for now; the school system could lose a budget boon it's been able to assume for decades.

A state delegate from Prince William County proposes to cut tolls on the Dulles Toll Road by raising taxes on United Airlines; the Leesburg Town Council schedules a special meeting to talk about plans around the Sycolin Cemetery.

County supervisors recommend a team to notify Loudouners when treated sewage fertilizer will be spread next door; the School Board continues debate restraint and seclusion practices in the schools.

About 2,100 elementary schoolers in southern Loudoun will be going to different schools; Michelle Thomas of the Loudoun Freedom Center and Phillip Thompson of the Loudoun NAACP call the Town of Leesburg's plans for a historic black cemetery 'racist.'

Resistance to plans for the Rockwool insulation plant across the border in West Virginia grows in Western Loudoun; small schools are spared for another year.