Music: After a successful inaugural season, the Middleburg Concert Series returns with its first concert of 2016 on Sunday, March 13 at 4 p.m. with a visit to the baroque era. Concerts are held at the Middleburg United Methodist Church at 15 West Washington Street and admission is free.
by Heidi Baumstark
Ashley Bott, Middleburg’s new town treasurer, is no stranger to small towns.
Bott has always embraced the culture of small-town living, having been raised in Calvert County, Maryland, just two blocks from the Chesapeake Bay. Currently, she lives in another small town, Strasburg, about 40 miles west of Middleburg, with her husband, Joey, and their three-year-old son, Owen.
Sitting pretty. That’s what customers will find behind glass cases of Middleburg’s Finest Chocolates. Rows and rows of artisan chocolates beautifully sculpted to tempt chocoholics or satisfy anyone on the hunt for a cocoa fix.
As an experienced entrepreneur, Stephanie Yowell was looking for a local business to run. She decided on Middleburg’s Finest Chocolates, previously known as Shenandoah Fine Chocolates, and purchased the business last Sept. 15. A Culpeper native, Main Street quaintness is in her blood so it was a natural fit to land her new venture on Middleburg’s Washington Street.
Here’s a story that merits attention. It involves an insidious and apparently increasingly common threat known as the Lone Star tick. Originally identified in Texas, it’s now made its way up the east coast, and for some, its bite can trigger a serious allergic reaction.
Dr. Martin Harrell knows plenty about pain. That’s his medical specialty—pain management— but as he sat in his tent on the side of a mountain last month, shivering in subzero temperatures made even colder by 25-mile-an-hour winds, surely he had to ask himself “what am I doing here?”
Not really.
Quite the contrary, Harrell was having the time of his life trying to ascend an Argentina mountain—Aconcagua in the Andes—and its 22,800-foot peak, the highest summit in South America and the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas.
Millwood’s post office was once a gas station and service center, and apparently a very popular place to spend an afternoon.
“It had a wood stove and a pool room,” said Laura Rodgers, Millwood’s postmaster. “Locals would hang out and play pool and keep warm by the fire.”
Matt Foosaner knows about Mission Critical Communications requirements — the rapid
response set-up of specialized equipment, the deployment of unique satellite and on-the-ground infrastructure, and the highly skilled personnel needed in order to transmit and share information during disasters and high level national security events.
For more than 70 years, Dog Patch Farm has been a haven for strays…two- and four-legged.
Owned for many years by the Maloney family, the farm off the Springs Road in Warrenton has been a welcoming home for dogs, horses, family and friends for four generations.
