Pictures of the year
UNITED STATES – Jan. 01, 2018: Jenna Downer, 12 of Hillsboro took part in the 3rd Annual Hillsboro New Year’s Day polar bear plunge! The weather was a balmy 21 degrees with the water temp at an inviting 32! The ice was 5 inches thick at Belle Ware’s pond and a hole had to be opened up with a chain saw for folks to take the plunge. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – Jan. 08, 2017: A VDOT truck sprays pre-storm treatment of liquid salt brine on Lovettsville road near Point of Rocks in north east Loudoun County. Schools were closed today with the pending storm expected to arrive in mid afternoon making roads slick for afternoon travelers. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – 01152018: A commemorative brick inscribed with “MLK Dream” along Market Street sets the stage for the march from Loudoun County Court House in downtown Leesburg to Douglass Community Center for the 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” celebration. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: Jan. 29, 2018: Kids play on Snickersville Turnpike in the village of Bluemont on liquid salt brine pre-storm treated roads for tonights pending rain snow mix. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES:Jan. 29, 2018: Kids (L toR) Ali Novello, James Hayter, volunteer Misty Brown, Cooper Brown and Liam Smith, hang out during free time at the Embark Center For Self-Directed Education. The center offers self-directed learning opportunities for kids who don’t fit in well in traditional public schools. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – Jan. 01, 2017: A large flock of Canada geese set up camp in the front yard of a home in the Town of Hamilton. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES:Feb. 12, 2018: Crossing Guard of the Year David Becker works his magic in front of Blue Ridge Middle School in Purcellville. Its easy to see why he won this award as the kids love him and he clearly loves what he is doing with his time as a recent retired firefighter. Becker born and raised in Loudoun was one of the 12 original paid firefighters in Loudoun County. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: Feb. 12, 2018: Students showcased what they’ve learned during Black History Month at Ball’s Bluff Elementary School about black men and women who have influenced American history. Sara Shafagoj second grader clearly knows the answer to a question teacher Faye Sterling just asked. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES:Feb. 22, 2018: A Leesburg veteran surrendered two AR-15s today to the Leesburg Police Department. Here LPD officers removed the guns from the home, two AR-15’s with about 3000 rounds of ammunition, two dozen high capacity magazines and other assault rifle accessories. The guns will be destroyed and not put back into circulation. When asked why they had chosen to surrender the weapons, they said that after seeing videos during the Florida school shooting of students stepping over their teachers and classmatesí bodies as they evacuated was enough. “I’m a former veteran and these guns are fun to shoot, but I don’t want to be part of this anymore. No one needs this type of gun. Their only purpose is to kill people.î (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: 01-22-2018: (L to R) Fiorello Zevallos (20), Ruth Callejas (19) (standing), and Liliana Bran (19) hang out in front of Broadrun High School in Ashburn Virginia. Because of a policy change, they will not be allowed to graduate because theyll age out. Most of these students are new Americans and speak language as a second language. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: Feb. 05, 2018: A worker forms a silhouette against a cloud as he works on the roof of a new apartment complex going up in Ashburn. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: 01-19-2018: Attorney General of Virginia Mark Herring talks with Claire Crook and her dog Charlotte at King Street Coffee in Leesburg. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 02, 2018: Trees and power lines are down all across Loudoun County that saw 70 plus mph winds today. Seen here a power crew from North Carolina works to clear a downed tree off of power lines in Hamilton. A powerful nor’easter rapidly intensified off the Northeast coast Friday, packing a fierce high-wind event that will unfold over area into Saturday morning. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 02, 2018: The sunset in Bluemont was spectacular Saturday evening after a fast-moving nor’easter that shut down schools through the region today has left thousands of homes and businesses without electricity and numerous roads closed by downed powerlines and trees. High windsgusts in excess of 70 mile per hour have been measured at Dulles Airport. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 12, 2018: Cool Spring Elementary School music teacher Luke Denton works with his 4th and 5th grade chorus students who will be performing at the annual Heritage High School cluster concert that features musicians from Heritage HS, Harper Park MS, and Tolbert elementary schools. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 24, 2018: Riverside High School student (holding sign)Yara Omar along with thousands of other participants crowd into Constitution Avenue during the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands rallied in the nation’s capital to demand action to end gun violence and mass shootings in schools. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: August 25, 2018: After Lovettsville resident Gina Faber started Gina’s Pies in 2016, she’s now selling them at the Leesburg Farmers’ Market and is growing her business.(Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: August 20, 2018: Brent Homcy walks with his 5-year-old daughter Emmalyn Homcy to the school bus stop as she heads out the door on her first day of school. Loudoun County schools system welcomes students back today so drive safe. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: June 18, 2018: Preforming during summer programs for kids at Cascades Library, Mikel Gehl and Lisa Mathews from the band Milkshake. The Baltimore Maryland duo are a Grammy-Nominated rock band for kids. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 13, 2018: Waterford residents have been cranky about to much traffic cutting through the village and also people driving to fast but it appears that there is a traffic calming solutions. One hen has implemented the “poultry solution”. Here we see a traffic calming hen at work in the heart of the downtown Waterford, guessing egg/speed bumps are next. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: March 14, 2018: Students at Seneca Ridge Middle School in Sterling Virginia walked out of class today as just one of thousands of schools who are taking part in a national walk out in protest of gun violence after the recent school shooting in Florida. The walk out was organized by student Jacob Wesoky and lasted 17 minutes, one minute for each of the victims of the shooting. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now)(Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – Jan. 01, 2017: A select few students from around the commonwealth are accepted each year to be pages for the General Assembly in Richmond. This year, two were selected from Loudoun County. Here mom’s take photos of Martha Daniel and Jackson Painter as they pose for a photo at Trinity House Café in their page uniforms as they prepare to serve at the General Assembly in Richmond. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: Feb. 12, 2018: Governor Ralph Northam listens to Eden Bertuzzi sing the National Anthem during the opening of the new Veterans Affairs Community Access Center on Miller Drive near Leesburg Airport. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: July 30, 2018: Tonya Taylor, co-manager of the Bainum Foundation Farm in Middleburg rushes in-between todays storms to pick tomatoes after a wet growing season that has reeked havoc on their vegetables. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: August 12, 2018: Brenda McGrath poses for some photos in her 1967 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport Convertible at the Cars & Coffee event at the Dunkin Donuts at Dulles Landing shopping center in Arcola. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: August 12, 2018: A Kitten hangs out in a 1940’s “Rat Car” at the Cars & Coffee event at the Dunkin Donuts at Dulles Landing shopping center in Arcola. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: May 25, 2018: Beth Lam walks her beagels along Snickersville Turnpike during the cool morning temps. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: May 14, 2018: Mabel Kroiz carries a baby goat at her families farm. There are 4 generations living on the farm and a total of 17 family members. George’s Mill farm runs a Bed and Breakfast and Georges Mill Artisan Cheese. The farm is being featured in the Spring Farm Tour. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: August 6, 2018: The Color Guard works on routines during Loudoun County Marching Raiders practice. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: November 6, 2018: Storm clouds clear out of the Blue Ridge near the Village of Bluemont on November 6, 2018. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 3, 2018: Tria Pll Dove walks her horse back to her barn along Greengarden Road in Western Loudoun County. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – July 7, 2018: Allen Cochran moves his sheep along Foundry Road to a feeding pasture using his sheep dogs. Western Loudoun’s historic dirt road known as Foundry Road outside of the Quaker settlement of Lincoln is one of many roads in Loudoun County that are historic. The vast network containing 300 miles of dirt roads in Western Loudoun are important heritage resources that represent the migration, settlement and travel patterns of the County’s early populations. (Photo by Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES: September 7, 2018: Bob Caines walks his dogs as he reads the morning newspaper along the half paved historic Williams Gap Road in Western Loudoun. Caines, who grew up in Loudoun and went to Broad Run High School says he walks the road daily. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: May 25, 2018: C.M. Pigott, along with other members of the Clinton Hatcher Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans began the day by setting out flags in Sharon Cemetery in Middleburg for soldiers that died during the civil war. The next three days members of the SCV, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, American Legion, Scouts and other organizations will set flags on all graves across Loudoun for Memorial Day on Monday. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: June 4, 2018: Welcoming back the sunshine as shafts of light beam into an indoor riding arena as an equestrian hacks her horse after what seemed like weeks of rain. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – September 10, 2018: A Red-Shouldered Hawk :: Buteo lineatus hunts just of off Feather Bed Lane in Western Loudoun County. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES: March 5, 2018: Tony McAleer a former white supremacist and cofounder of Life After Hate addresses about 500 people that attended the Loudoun Love Your Neighbor: Hope Not Hate meeting at Sha’are Shalom in Leesburg. The meeting was a community response to the recent KKK leafleting that been happening in some of Loudoun towns.(Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: June 18, 2018: Purcellville is going to conduct a feasibility study to determine if growing hops on the 189-acre Aberdeen Property is a worthwhile business venture. The property is on Short Hill Road before you get to the water treatment plant. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: April 15, 2018: Even with wind,cold and rain this mom and daughter were having fun at the 52nd Annual Loudoun Hunt Point to Point races that were held at Oatlands Plantation near Leesburg. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: July 01, 2018: Hillsboro 4th of July festival was held today July 1, 2018 at the Old Stone School. The events included a ceremonial groundbreaking for the traffic calming project for route 9 and lots of great food trucks, farmers bringing delicious food and of course fire works after sunset. Here Hillsboro Boy Scout Troop 961 presents the colors to kick off the event, clockwise from top Scoutmaster, Wayne Lopez, Trevor McDuffie, Wyatt Coons, Alex Cunningham, Tristan Mackey.(Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 11, 2018: A equestrian makes their way along Unison Road as the sun sets near the Village of Unison in Western Loudoun County. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Nov. 15, 2018: A tow-truck driver talks with a Virginia State Trooper about cars he was to pull from the ditches along Route 7 West. In the background a VDOT snow plow attempts to keep pace with the storm. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Nov. 15, 2018: The seasons first winter weather blanketed Beaverdam Bridge in snow near the Village of Philomont. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES: November 6, 2018: Virginia Democratic congressional candidate Jennifer Wexton, a former prosecutor and current Democratic state senator, and her husband Andrew react to the election results come in, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 in Dulles, Va. at thier Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. Wexton is running against two-term Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – October 29, 2018: Kori Lord, Emily Lord and Haley Oliver hack their horses down Old Waterford Road near Fieldstone Farm between Waterford and Leesburg. Loudoun County retains much of its charm and scenic beauty. Old Waterford Roadbetween Leesburg and Waterfordis a hilly unpaved (mostly) road with several gorgeous 100 acre farms. Many farms have already been sold and developed. Some farms are for sale and surely will be developed in the future. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – November 3, 2018: Along Unison Road in the village Unison Heritage Day events were held today. Seen here is one of the Piedmont Hunt’s fox hounds getting a little love from Devon Zebrovious. The small event is 15-years-old and helps to raise money for the Preservation Society of Unison. BBQ, Libations, Oysters on the half shell, Homemade Deserts, Willow Grass Bluegrass, and an art show featuring local artists with silent auction and of course the famous live auction are just a few of things at the event. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 22, 2018: Cattle head to the barn on Christmas Eve along Furr Road near the village of Unison. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – November 12, 2018: Fora Hillman of Bloomfield, Va., drives her welsh pony along Willisville Road in Western Loudoun County. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 10, 2018: A small Christmas tree sits on the horizon as the moon rises along Bloomfield Road just outside the Village of Unison. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 13, 2018: The 2nd Annual Bicycle Outfitters Christmas Lights Tour around the Town of Leesburg. The bicycle ride is a “for everyone” pace with no-one left behind. Cyclist are encouraged to decorate their bikes and also a helmet and front and rear light are required. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – 12-17-2018: Members of the Piedmont Hunt hack horses down Quaker Lane near the Village of Unison. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – Dec. 10, 2018: A small Christmas Tree sits out front of the Old Unison Store in the the Village of Unison.(Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP)
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