Feature Stories
Construction of the railroad through Ashburn was arduous
FORGING AN IRON PATH By Mathew Annis Across Ashburn Road from the Carolina Brothers barbecue restaurant, there is a broken rock face – 15 feet […]
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Business Boom
A friend’s passing leads Ashburn couple to take a leap of faith
A PASSION FOR WINE By Chris Wadsworth Sean Malone loved being a wine shop owner. He bought the 8-year-old Ashburn Wine Shop in 2018 from […]
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Local residents have long-distance love for Spelunker’s
CUSTARD & CAVERN BURGERS By Chris Wadsworth Sixty miles or so southwest of Ashburn sits the town of Front Royal – famed as the gateway […]
Amazing Kids
Local high schoolers work to prevent accidents between cars and animals
DEER DASH By Tracy Owens Proximity to nature is one of the amenities of Martins Chase, a neighborhood just west of Belmont Ridge Road. Surrounded […]
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Ashburn’s first female firefighter fought more than flames
TRAILBLAZER By Panchami Rangaraju September 17, 1990. Anne Marie Mason remembers it was a beautiful day. She was living with her family in a townhouse […]
Amazing Kids
Local music students perform to help others
HITTING THE RIGHT NOTE Charles Pekow In August 2023, the students from Notes n’ Beats – an Ashburn-based music school – were performing a concert […]
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Ashburn artist spotlights local scenes with a unique perspective
COLORING WITHIN THE LINES By Chris Wadsworth “I can’t paint, but I can draw and generally color within the lines.” That’s the motto of Ashburn […]
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Meet the president of Loudoun’s fast-growing local hospital
INSIDE INOVA By Chris Wadsworth As the president of Inova Loudoun Hospital, Susan Carroll has found herself in plenty of high-pressure situations. But one of […]
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Birria tacos are proving popular on area menus
BOOM TIME FOR BIRRIA By Chris Wadsworth I still remember the first time that I heard the term “birria tacos.” My son, then a high-schooler, […]
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Ashburn man serving in Peace Corps in remote Kyrgyzstan
BUILDING BRIDGES By Chris Wadsworth It was definitely not a situation Alex Lowe ever expected to find himself in – more than 6,000 miles away […]