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Wednesday, Feb. 8
When Dr. Jonathan Lewis arrived in Fauquier some four years ago, then Times-Democrat education reporter Alice Felts told us of his first budget cycle that there was, indeed, a new sheriff in town ... | 
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Please take note: For the first time in, we believe more than two years, there was not a single foreclosure in this week’s listing of property transfers in Fauquier County. Just as heartening ... |
Wednesday, Feb. 1
Without stirring up those Warrenton officials who are sensitive about the Mosby house, nor those Civil War enthusiasts to whom any question about it is heresy, we are, nevertheless, obliged ... |
Wednesday, Feb. 1
Our own brand-new delegate, Marshall farmer Michael Webert, sent out what could very well be his first press release as an elected official last week. |
Wednesday, Jan. 25
As of this Monday, applications are available for the Northern Piedmont Beginning Farmer Program. The seven-month course is open to those in Fauquier, Rappahannock and Madison counties ... |
Friday, Jan. 20
We’re not picking on Lee Sherbeyn, despite evidence seemingly to the contrary — namely, the frequency with which he seems to show up in this space. We’re just not crazy about ... |
Wednesday, Jan. 18
As we kick off 2012, nearly a quarter of Fauquier County is under conservation easement. More than 3,150 acres here were put under that protection last year, adding to the total of ... |
Wednesday, Jan. 18
For the Water and Sanitation Authority to be so willing to pass the buck, to be so blind to the injustice of charging its customers the same for water that they can drink as for water that they ... |
Wednesday, Jan. 18
We had a couple of letters last week bashing the president for making appointments while the Senate is still in session — or at least some Republicans insist it is. The Justice Department ... |
Friday, Jan. 13
It has been debated regularly in the last several General Assembly sessions, but efforts to reinstitute the program allowing for new humane investigators in Virginia to be found, trained ... |
Wednesday, Jan. 11
We have editorialized more than once in the last 12 months or so about the growing disdain for regulation of any kind in this country, especially in the lead up to this year’s elections ... |
Wednesday, Jan. 4
Warrenton Mayor George Fitch, who has written us, and, presumably, the entire town council, are unhappy with a recent editorial (“Open house,” Dec. 23) in which, he feels, this ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 28
Sadly, the budget surplus, according to many analysts, consists of smoke and mirrors, give that the commonwealth hasn’t yet paid back the millions it essentially borrowed from the ... |
Friday, Dec. 23
Another year has passed, or just about, and Town of Warrenton property at 173 Main St., remains locked and forlorn. Another year has passed, and Brentmoor, the onetime home of Fauquier County ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 21
Barring an unprecedented emergency that would require the supervisors to gather again before their regular, scheduled meeting in January, Ray Graham and Terry Nyhous have completed their tenures ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 21
With the new year just around the corner, we turn at least some of our attention to Richmond, where the General Assembly will meet beginning in January. In a town-hall meeting with state ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 21
We are beginning to get a good sense of how Newt Gingrich operates. If Michelle Bachmann simply denies she made statements that, quite clearly, she did pronounce, if Rick Perry tries to make his ... |
Friday, Dec. 16
The new board of supervisors will be seated in a matter of a few weeks, during which interim we can all celebrate the holidays and ponder what lies ahead. More of the same, or a board that ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 14
We are wrapping up work on two related stories for Piedmont Business Journal which will next be in our readers’ hands in January. For one story, we have been talking to top executives ... |
Friday, Dec. 9
Village of Catlett is headed to a board of supervisor’s vote on Thursday, after which it is presumably headed to the landfill. Three supervisors have indicated they will vote against the ... |
Friday, Dec. 9
President Obama’s critics were in a swivet yesterday for another incident that establishes beyond doubt that he is, well, not one of us. Apparently Sidwell Friends, which his daughters attend ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 7
The House of Representatives last week approved, largely along party lines, 235-190, a bill that would do away with taxpayer funding of presidential elections and would disband ... |
Wednesday, Dec. 7
The Mosby Heritage Area Association will present its annual Heritage Hero Awards at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg to long-time ... |
Friday, Dec. 2
Many a fortune has been made in real estate development. These days, we are often left to wonder how, when so many of those who are involved seem so removed from the changing picture and ... |
Wednesday, Nov. 30
Black Friday apparently got off to as raucous a start in Warrenton as it did elsewhere across the nation, with a parking lot at Walmart that began filling to overflow in the hours after ... |
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