In this week’s conversation, the community reacts to a deadly domestic shooting, the School Board goes with the expanded holiday list after months of debate over the 2028-29 calendar, Leesburg Town Manager Kaj Dentler is celebrated in retirement. It will be a busy weekend with the Leesburg Airshow, a Revolutionary War program at Claude Moore Park, Hail to the Trail in Purcellville and Lovettsville’s Oktoberfest.

In this week's conversation, the Board of Supervisors work to slow data center development, e-bike safety concerns grow, voting begins for November's election, and it is Crossroads Music Festival weekend in downtown Leesburg.

In this week's conversation, state Sen. Russet Perry stops in the newsroom to talk about a busy week of public events to gather input on the Valley North transmission line project and the proposed Dominion Energy merger as the county Board of Supervisors continues to debate changing the rules for data center construction.

In the conversation this week: the 2027 Board of Supervisors races are off to an early start, a three-week trial opens in an arson case that took the life of a Sterling woman, Leesburg readies for a change in its top government management post.

This week's conversation: Supervisors move closer to data center crack down; a look at back-to-school week, preparations for the 9/11 motorcycle ride, and this weekend's event preview.

The School Board censures one of its members, residents fill Lovettsville Town Hall amid concerns about Valley North Transmission Line Project and annexation plans, ICE ramps up enforcement locally, and America 250 events planned in downtown Leesburg this weekend.

This week the newsroom discusses the latest round of drama in the Town of Purcellville, changes coming to Leesburg's Market Street, and the experience of summer intern Teagan Balda.

This week's topics: President Trump's plans for Dulles Airport, Loudoun towns searching for new town managers, covering the domestic shooting at the Bieniemy home.

The Board of Supervisors rolls out plans for tighter controls on data centers. Supervisor Juli Briskman is censured. A crash during an attempted ICE arrest in Sterling was recorded on video.

A discussion of continuing controversies over plans for new electrical power lines and substations; warnings that Loudoun's data centers could shift to generator power during the heat wave; concerns about plans to fully encrypt the radio traffic of the county's law enforcement agencies.