Business
Oatlands After Five Presents Summer Garden Wine Tasting
Oatlands is a 360 acre self-supporting National Trust Historic Site. The site features a stunning landscape with magnificent gardens, 1804 mansion and the second oldest greenhouse in the nation. Oatlands’ summer garden wine tasting is a unique wine pairing experience that takes place in the gardens at Oatlands. The summer garden wine… »
Local Bed and Breakfast Open House
The Loudoun Bed & Breakfast Guild Annual Open House Tour on 4/25 is a FREE event suitable for the whole family. Take a self-guided tour along some of the most scenic roads in Western Loudoun and visit the NINE charming and historic B&Bs and one event facility participating in the tour. Local wineries, restaurants, and… »
World AIDS Day
December 1 marked the 22nd annual World AIDS Day. This tradition was started in 1988 with the goal of raising awareness to the spread of HIV/ AIDS.
This year the effect of AIDS has been felt closer to home than ever before in America, with the shocking study that showed 3 percent of the population… »
Our Trip to Market Salamander
Chef Todd guided us through a delightful sidewalk cafe market experience- all under the roof of a carefully crafted design- including a perpetual blue sky painted overhead (actually, a perfectly partly cloudy). We started at the ‘front’ of the shop- surrounded by an array of coffees ‘n other drink specialties- and some very tempting (and… »
The Stop at Goodstone
Our trip to the Goodstone Inn near Middleburg was an exercise in hospitality. After a complete tour of the grounds (they have something like 260 acres), which included a short conversation with Oliver the Pig (a local rescue animal) and several views which were nothing less than stunning, our attention was drawn to the efforts… »
Blue Ridge Leader Bids Adieu
April 24, 2009
The Blue Ridge Leader, Purcellville’s newspaper for over two decades, will cease publication in its current form with this issue.
The Leader was born in 1984, when five local businessmen joined forces and funds to establish a free paper covering western Loudoun County from an office in the basement of the old firehouse on… »
Spring Farm Tour on Tap
April 24, 2009
Farms and vineyards throughout Loudoun County will open their gates especially wide on May 16 and 17 to welcome visitors on the Spring Farm Tour. The self-guided driving tour allows people to experience the best of Loudoun’s rural economy: tour a winery, pick strawberries, listen to music, lunch on local foods, and buy… »
Panel Offers Business Coaching
April 24, 2009
Last Thursday the Town of Purcellville hosted a Small Business Roundtable at the Carver Center. The event brought area small business owners face-to-face with a panel of nine business experts who offered advice and insight along with 30-days of personal coaching and consultation at no cost.
The experts presented 10-minute tutorials on… »
Agro-Depot Lends a Hand
March 27, 2009
By Mark Dewey
This morning’s news left me pondering two different kinds of value, real and false—or maybe it’s two different kinds of people.
I read that Obama decided to give bankers $2 trillion to cover their bad debts—not all bankers, just the ones that tried to make money out of nothing and wound up… »
Pro-Fit Ski & Skate Shuts Doors
March 13, 2009
After fourteen years in Leesburg, Pro-Fit Ski & Skate will be closing their business. The store was voted SKI Magazine’s Gold Medal Ski Shop for 2007-08 and has been certified “America’s Best” by the MasterFit University Bootfitter Training Centers. The owners cite lack of snow and warm temperatures over the past three ski… »