Morning Minute

The county works to launch a stewardship program for its government-owned historic properties; Leesburg is still debating allowing food trucks downtown.

A proposal to demolish a horse farm from the 1920s to build 129 houses has some people wondering if Leesburg should expand its historic district; a piece of Bluemont history reopens after more than 70 years.

AT&T gets a chance to defend its plans for a 155-foot cell tower on top of Short Hill Mountain; a man who may have been trying for a life insurance payout is sentenced in a fatal crash.

Loudoun's Department of Economic Development and some of its farmers think industrial hemp will be the next big thing; the School Board narrows down options for naming the county's newest elementary school.

Loudoun gets a new fire chief; and the county can't seem to give away tourism grant funding.

Five months after Purcellville privatized managing Fireman's Field, the town gets a request for reimbursement—and it's nearly $30,000 bigger than the town expected; a Loudoun middle school soccer player makes history.

The Loudoun Advisory Commission on Youth finds on-time graduation slipping and school absenteeism on the rise; JK Community Farm starts planting.

Hillsboro could be the first place in Loudoun to feel the state's cut to regional transportation funding; Loudoun could try to gobble up transportation funding from other projects across the state after that cut.

Round Hill establishes its identity as the place to go outside; county supervisors sign off on a kennel and animal hospital across the Leesburg Bypass from Leesburg's Foxridge neighborhood.

Federal regulations threaten 150 jobs for people with disabilities at a Leesburg nonprofit; two years later, the Envision Loudoun stakeholders committee has the first draft of Loudoun's next comprehensive plan.