High school seniors who were named Future Leaders by the Loudoun Times-Mirror at the annual Loudoun School-Business Partnership Recognition Breakfast were honored and presented with $1,500 scholarships. Diana Gretzkowski, from Potomac Falls High School, was awarded a $3,000 scholarship.

Chris Cooley: Professional potter.

The sport of polo booming at Great Meadow, home of the Gold Cup Races.

Each year, the Loudoun Times-Mirror celebrates some of the county’s most outstanding senior students, chosen from a spectrum of scholastic pursuits, such as civic outreach, sports, arts and science. The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation has generously underwritten the annual program.

Nichols Hardware, a mercantile establishment in the same family’s hands for more than eight decades, is the subject of a film currently being shot in western Loudoun County.

A Loudoun resident discovers the lost art of crafting dry stack stone walls—and shares it with others in an award-winning documentary film.