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By Bill, on December 31st, 2011
The somewhat distressed looking Napoleon’s Restaurant at 67 Waterloo St., in Old Town Warrenton’s historical district was foreclosed upon in December of 2010. Napoleon’s opened in 1978, and was sold to Al Nosrat in 2002. Four years later he sold it to Grand American LLC. When The Fauquier Bank foreclosed on Grand American, which it had loaned $ 1.6 million to buy the restaurant, it assumed $ 1.5 million in debt on the property.
For around a year, the parking lot has been chained off, with “for sale” signs hanging from the chain. That chain is no longer there. Earlier this month, it was reported that the property has new owners.
Continue reading Napoleon’s Restaurant Property Has New Owners
By Bill, on December 29th, 2011
Giving thanks, connecting with neighbors and new friends, celebrating the past and the future; these are all things that celebrations like a First Night bring to a community.
Earlier this month, the stark realization hit the community in Warrenton that a First Night celebration scheduled for the last night of this year might have to be cancelled, but many individuals and businesses stepped up to deliver $12,000 in pledges to help the gathering happen. It’s the 20th First Night in Warrenton’s history.
The Town of Leesburg wasn’t so fortunate this year, and had to cancel their New Year’s Eve celebration. The Occupy movement in Dover, Delaware helped rescue First Night Dover earlier this week, with grassroots efforts to draw support from musicians, craftsman, and other entertainment for December 31st in that town after corporate sponsors had to cancel out on the celebration.
Continue reading Community Saves New Year’s Celebration
By Bill, on December 3rd, 2011
This morning, the Town of Warrenton started off the holidays with a parade on Main Street in Old Town. The streets were crowded with people, and there were more people marching than I anticipated. I got there a little early, before the crowds of people arrived.
This year’s parade is celebrating its 25th Anniversary, and was organized by the WOW Fauquier Woman of Wonder, and featured 82 participants, including NBC weatherman, and resident of Delaplane, Virginia, Willard Scott who hosted the event as Grand Marshall.
Continue reading Warrenton Christmas Parade 2011
By Bill, on October 23rd, 2011
Fauquier County’s The Plains decided that since they were too small a town to have a Halloween parade, and that trick or treating really didn’t happen much there, they would do something else to have fun on a community wide basis. They came up with the idea of having a scarecrow contest instead.
Since all the scarecrows were to be in place by October 20th, I went and checked them out yesterday, and took some pictures. I don’t know if I got photos of all of the scarecrows, but I think I managed to find most of them.
Continue reading Halloween Scarecrows in The Plains, Virginia
By Bill, on October 13th, 2011
You never know what one of your neighbors might be up to in their sheds or basements, but could you imagine seeing a motorcycle flying through the skies over Warrenton that looked something like this:
The image is from U.S. Patent 6,877,690, Combination powered parachute and motorcycle, which was originally filed with the US patent office on June 6, 2003, and granted on April 12, 2005.
The abstract from the patent tells us about the invention:
Continue reading Warrenton – Birthplace of the Powered Parachute Motorcycle
By Bill, on October 5th, 2011
If you’ve stopped by Warrenton’s Great Harvest Bread, at 108 Main St., Warrenton, Virginia, in the past, you have an idea of the great smell of fresh baked bread that greets you at the door, or the happy crew that offers a friendly hello as you enter. Today, the bakery has become one of Warrenton’s best places to stop for lunch as well, introducing a number of sandwiches.
I heard about this last Friday, and stopped by to check out what they offered.
Continue reading Unwrapping Warrenton’s New Lunch Spot – Great Harvest Bread
By Bill, on October 1st, 2011
I haven’t updated here in a while, though I do have some good news. The Fauquier Times Democrat is now including actual articles on their website these days. Also, a new site, Fauquier Now launched a week or so ago to provide news in the area as well.
I took a number of pictures of Warrenton this morning, and decided to share some of them.
Continue reading Saturday Morning in Warrenton
By Bill, on March 31st, 2011
Fauquier County has an internet first to its credit. It’s the first county in Virginia to participate in a study on internet access in the State. And if you’re in Fauquier County, you can help.
I remember my days of dial-up internet access all too well. Spending over an hour downloading the newest version of a browser, or waiting impatiently while the latest antivirus software updates made it onto my hard drive. Watching pages take minutes to fully resolve on my screen. It’s not an ideal situation if you run a home-based business and rely upon a website and email to interact with customers.
High Speed internet access doesn’t just benefit people running businesses out of their dens or living rooms. Ecommerce online allows you to shop for goods and services that might not be available to you locally, or find products at low costs. Informational resources on the Web can help you find better ways to farm, to run a small business, and to connect and interact with people who share similar interests with you from around the World.
That’s why I was pretty excited to see an initiative from Virginia Tech’s Ecorridors Program to map out internet access speeds across the state. The focus behind the program is to get people in places like Fauquier County to visit the pages of Accelerate Virginia and take a Internet Speed Test and answer questions about their internet access, to help the organization understand and improve upon internet access in those places.
Continue reading Faster and More Affordable Internet Access in Fauquier County?
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