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Washington Post, August 25, 2008
"Federal officials have offered another signal that a $5.2 billion Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport is on track to receive federal funding by the end of the year, giving project officials the green light to begin construction in the heart of Tysons Corner."
Washington Post, August 18, 2008
"For troubled youths, sometimes the key to getting back on track is the opportunity to help something else grow and blossom.
With that in mind, Stuart Younkin, youth programs coordinator for Loudoun County’s parks and recreation department, started a community garden project last year for teenagers. "
Leesburg Today, August 18, 2008
"Numerous PATH-Allegheny engineers and transmission experts were on hand at Lovettsville Elementary School last night to explain three routes being considered as part of a new 500kv high transmission, one of which might pass through northern Loudoun just over a mile north of Lovettsville."
Washington Post, August 15, 2008
"For the past month, Bill Peters has been able to see farther down the road than other drivers.
When traffic backed up along his 45-minute daily commute between Leesburg and Charles Town, W.Va., it took only a glance at his BlackBerry for him to figure out why. And even before he left his house, he knew what trouble spots to expect."
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Loudoun Times Mirror, August 14, 2008
"While gas prices are now leveling off after hovering around $4 a gallon for much of the summer, one prominent economist and two of Loudoun’s most prolific developers still think high gas prices may slow growth in Loudoun."
Leesburg Today, August 15, 2008
"As the Loudoun Board of Supervisors works to create a Limestone Overlay District to limit development in environmentally at-risk areas along Rt. 15 north of Leesburg, one community is already grappling with the potential risks associated with living on porous limestone soils."
Washington Post, August 15, 2008
"Getting kids to eat the vegetables they like can be hard enough, but when Cindy Bjornsen was receiving bushels of kale delivered to her doorstep in Broadlands, the job got a little harder."
Washington Post, August 18, 2008
"For troubled youths, sometimes the key to getting back on track is the opportunity to help something else grow and blossom.
With that in mind, Stuart Younkin, youth programs coordinator for Loudoun County’s parks and recreation department, started a community garden project last year for teenagers. "
Leesburg Today, August 18, 2008
"Numerous PATH-Allegheny engineers and transmission experts were on hand at Lovettsville Elementary School last night to explain three routes being considered as part of a new 500kv high transmission, one of which might pass through northern Loudoun just over a mile north of Lovettsville."
WTOP, August 7, 2008
"Picture a 21st century main street bustling with activity, enough activity to keep 500,000 more people busy, generate 250,000 new jobs and bring in $58 million in new tax revenues. That’s how supporters of rail to Dulles see the area through Tysons Corner and out to Loudoun County by the year 2030. But the project, with 11 proposed new stations, faces several hurdles in the next six months, including a lawsuit that challenges the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s takeover of the Dulles Toll Road to help fund construction. "
Washington Post, August 12, 2008
"“Disingenuous” is perhaps the best way to describe the latest tack among opponents of the Dulles Rail project. Critics, who have done all in their power to delay the project from moving forward, are now complaining that . . . the project has been delayed in moving forward. And add in the shocking revelation that, as time goes by, construction costs mount. Wow!"
Loudoun Times Mirror, July 17, 2008
"In Tysons Corner, orange safety fences and busy people in hard hats are becoming an increasingly familiar sight in the service roads along Route 7, as utility relocation proceeds in advance of Phase 1 of the Dulles rail project. "
Leesburg Today, July 17, 2008
"Right on the heels of the board of supervisors’ adoption of an amended Secondary Road Six-Year Plan that cut a number of projects supervisors had considered top priorities, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board gave the county another blow. Late this afternoon the planning board announced it would be cutting key Northern Virginia transportation projects from its Regional Transportation Program. "
Loudoun Times Mirror, July 23, 2008
"Residents of Loudoun County now have a quick and easy way to keep track of what is going to be built in their communities.
A new Web site, www.LocalDecisions.org , gives users the ability to look up proposed, approved and denied building projects in any Loudoun ZIP Code."
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