Community Views

Ramadan: This is the year we can end the Dulles Greenway's highway robbery. Here's why.

Community View from David Ramadan
Updated Jul 9, 2020
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Hang on to your wallets, Loudoun County commuters — the owners of the Dulles Greenway are at it again.

Chachu: Start listening, Supervisor Kershner

Community View from Zemma Chachu
Jun 22, 2020
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This letter is to Supervisor Caleb Kershner (R-Catoctin) regarding your answer to the Loudoun Times-Mirror on whether you believe the Confederate monument in front of the county courthouse in Leesburg is appropriate in 2020 America and if you support removing and/or relocating it. I want to …

Weiss: Kershner has a lot to learn

Letter to the Editor from Jill Weiss
Jun 22, 2020
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Supervisor Kershner, your suggestion that the Confederate statue on Loudoun’s courthouse grounds is “solely a tribute placed by loving family members to remember their fallen” is incredulous. If that was the sole purpose of the statue, it would have been placed in Union Cemetery, near their …

Del. Reid: Developing a second-wave containment strategy for COVID-19

By Del. David Reid
Jun 17, 2020
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We know a lot more now than we did in March when we started dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. We also know that it has always been “easier to criticize than it is to create” and many people have used this opportunity to criticize the steps taken by Gov. Ralph Northam (D). It’s also very di…

Stack: Racism is alive and well in Loudoun County. It always has been.

Community View from Josh Stack
Jun 14, 2020
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I was born and raised in Lovettsville in the 1980s. I’m 45 years old. At the time, it had a population of 600 people, two gas stations, three stores and a couple churches. No fast food, two restaurants, a community center, and farms everywhere.

Perspective: To be black and a journalist at this moment

By Amanda Barrett, Associated Press
Jun 2, 2020
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For many Americans, “space” means leaving the Earth’s atmosphere and exploring the galaxy. They think of this weekend’s SpaceX launch. Or going where no one has gone before on “Star Trek.”

Ellis: Fixing Loudoun's rural cluster problem

Community View from John Ellis
Jun 2, 2020
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In these sad and anxious times, it is difficult to focus on the future. Despite the challenges, however, our county government continues to move forward as best as it can on important long-term issues, including the fate of Loudoun’s rapidly diminishing rural areas.

Gemmill: Honor those who have served this Memorial Day

Community View from Bruce Gemmill
May 25, 2020
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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave our war-torn nation one of the mightiest speeches ever delivered. The Gettysburg address commemorated those who gave their “last full measure of devotion,” at a time when our nation was ripping itself apart. In his eulogy on the slain president two years later, …

A message from the Loudoun County Veterans Engagement Board: Honoring our veterans this Memorial Day

May 22, 2020
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While all of us are facing this pandemic together, those who served or are serving in the military know all too well that standing together for our families, communities, and country in the face of adversity is not new. Especially those who have been on the battlefield and lost friends or lo…

Baratko: Three reasons to celebrate

Column by Trevor Baratko, tbaratko@loudountimes.com
May 10, 2020
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As the Internet is quick to remind us, there's a celebration for every day.

Why the restaurant you come back to will be different

Community View from Jason Miller
May 9, 2020
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The outpouring of community support for local restaurants has been nothing short of amazing. So many people have found their own way to help so many of our local restaurants. To see such a strong community help in so many ways is heartwarming and gives me hope for the changes that must come.

Arumani: Prepare your empathy for the post-COVID-19 world

Community View from Sahana Arumani
Apr 25, 2020
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On Saturday, March 28, my father took a calculated risk. After two weeks of silent restlessness, the inevitable need for a grocery run had arrived. The Clorox spray, decade-old gloves from beneath the bathroom sink and masks bought during the swine flu outbreak of 2009 are the main soldiers …

King: Remembering Dr. Bruml and the Jews of Prague

By Charlie King, Special to the Times-Mirror
Apr 21, 2020
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"We had a life before Auschwitz, and we had a life afterward. Living, suffering, loving people--it's all part of a life. What I am saying is, one goes on. Life goes on, and one goes on. One has to stay as decent and caring as one can. And because the Nazis were rotten, you don't have to beco…

Loudoun Curbside

Real-time social media posts and menus from local businesses operating pickup and delivery services through the coronavirus shutdown. Call 703-777-1111 to add your business.

Loudoun Curbside

Real-time social media posts and menus from local businesses operating pickup and delivery services through the coronavirus shutdown. Call 703-777-1111 to add your business.