Anne About Loudoun
Goodbye, LTM
As I wrote in my goodbye column in the paper, today is my last ... | 0 comments ›› more ...
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Let's aim for higher than 15%
Tomorrow is election day for Loudoun's seven towns. Last time there was a town election, in 2006, only 15 percent of Leesburg's registered voters bothered to show up to vote. Here's how the other town's fared in May 2006: | 0 comments ›› more ...
They're home!
Leesburg's National Guard returned home Friday afternoon and were welcomed with open arms by their families and the local communities. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Leesburg -- a jewel worth protecting
Reporters sometimes don't have an enviable life. They must closely monitor local governments, police forces, and other public entities -- and sometimes tell bad news. | 0 comments ›› more ...
How times have changed
Loudoun's local government scene is a far quieter place in a slow economy. Board of Supervisors meetings end early, without any major development proposals to debate and fight over. The newspaper used to get visits from builders and investors pitching their latest town center or subdivision -- no more. | 1 comment ›› more ...
Bingo King Bingo Machine
I write this with some trepridation, because I'm not sure I want anyone else to know about the gold mine that is the Loudoun County Surplus Store. But I came across something there that must be claimed! | 0 comments ›› more ...
Just another day in Loudoun
10:38 p.m. We had stories about alleged prostitution, possibly gay penguins, cocaine disguised as candy -- and of course the presidential primary. All in a day's work at the Loudoun Times-Mirror. | 0 comments ›› more ...
I'm jealous of Super Tuesday states
Okay -- I'm here on production night, the night we gather all the articles and photos and graphics we've written, shot and designed over the last 6 days, and work together to put together a paper. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Big day for Loudoun arts
Last year at this time, I was rehearsing for a part in the Franklin Park Performing Arts Center's A Streetcar Named Desire. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Road of peril
If ignorance is bliss, then working for a newspaper is not the road to nirvana. | 1 comment ›› more ...
Tally Ho, Mighty Midget!
Our official Leesburg landmark reporter Matt Van Tassel wrote three articles in the Jan. 9 Loudoun Times-Mirror on the future of the Mighty Midget and the Tally Ho Movie Theater. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Mighty Midget cont'd
In response to some of the comments my blog received: It looks like the Leesburg Town Council is going to talk about the future of the Midget at Monday's work session (1/7/08). | 0 comments ›› more ...
Controversy over the Midget?
In my last blog entry, I wrote about the new restaurant, Hamburg Doener, going into the tiny airplane fuselage/kitchen called the Mighty Midget Kitchen. | 4 comments ›› more ...
Mighty Midget makes way for Hamburg Doener
Mighty Midget will be switching from southern BBQ to German fare! | 1 comment ›› more ...
Go Leesburg Toyota/Scion!
In continuing coverage of businesses and organizations that ROCK, here is the latest news on the charitable giving front... | 0 comments ›› more ...
The Alternative Gift Fair is amazing!
This just in: The Alternative Gift Fair, sponsored by Saint Gabriels Episcopal Church, has raised $29,500 for local nonprofit community - only $500 from its goal! | 0 comments ›› more ...
Local innovation inspires
As I watched Loudoun's top entrepreneurs honored at the Chamber of Commerce's annual Small Business Awards last Wednesday, I was struck by the range of enterprises pursued in this county. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Have you hugged a reporter today?
Enter the Loudoun Times-Mirror newsroom. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Memories of the 2003 election ...
Election time is brewing. | 1 comment ›› more ...
Perspective shift
My friends and I sit at Moe's in Leesburg, and the power goes out. It is a day that will break records for heat in the D.C. Metro area. | 1 comment ›› more ...
Not running from the law
So I want to clarify something from my last post. | 2 comments ›› more ...
Moving is hell
I am 30 years old. I recently calculated that since I graduated from college at age 21, I have moved 14 times. All the moves have dissolved in my memory into a blur of U-Hauls, storage units and back pain. | 3 comments ›› more ...
Back in Loudoun
I'm back from vacation and ready to blog like a wild woman. | 0 comments ›› more ...
Anne About Loudoun
It's been more than 2 ½ years since I started wandering around Loudoun County and asking Times-Mirror readers to guess my location. | 2 comments ›› more ...
A change of heart
Every Sunday morning, a pickup truck quietly pulls up to the front door of a middle school just east of Leesburg. | 2 comments ›› more ...
Awkward
Here's an epilogue to the column I wrote for Wednesday's paper. | 2 comments ›› more ...
It's not my dog...
I changed my blog photo because I thought I looked like a crazy woman in the other one. | 1 comment ›› more ...
Who are these people?
Next to my bed lie four weeks of New Yorker magazines, a historical novel with a bookmark in between pages 12 and 13, and a pile of other unread books. | 1 comment ›› more ...