Students and parents speak out in favor of continuing to send students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; the school system hires its first equity director.
Waterford residents are upset about Dominion cutting back trees in the village; a Stone Bridge High school student is arrested for making online threats to a school in Broward County, FL.
Visit Loudoun recognizes one of the best haunted houses and one of the first farm-to-table restaurants in the country; a man faces 20 years in federal prison after a woman is poisoned with a date rape drug.
Drug Court gets its first participant; the Riverside High School Marching Rams have notched two state championships in the four years since they formed.
Plans for a new Aldie fire house hit a stumbling block, but the county government presses ahead; Telos Corporation donates $25,000 to help vulnerable children and their families.
County supervisors start work on the county's first-ever Urban Policy Area; the School Board debates whether to stop sending Loudoun students to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax.
Leesburg Town Council members see an eroding relationship with the county government as free government software goes away; two Loudoun 8th graders head to a national chemistry challenge.
Leesburg residents ask the town council to stop spraying the Town Branch with an herbicide called glyphosate; the Loudoun Education Foundation is once again raising money to help feed hungry students.
The Loudoun Chamber's Valor Awards recognize some of the heroes of the past year; Rockwool opponents travel to Denmark to meet the shareholders and CEO personally.
County supervisors question some of the studies behind the latest draft of the new comprehensive plan; the school system's new Ad Hoc Committee on Equity holds its first meeting.
An anti-corruption nonprofit and a group of environmentalists win a legal battle to reopen the Potomac around Trump National golf club; a junior at Stone Bridge High School makes chess history.