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STANDARD PRESORT RESIDENTIAL U.S. POSTAGE CUSTOMER PAID ECRWSS PERMIT NO. 82 WOODSTOCK, VA AUGUST 2020 www.blueridgeleader.com blueridgeleader SINCE 1984 Interview with Sheriff Mike Chapman BY VALERIE CURY fices and police departments are the The recent vote by the Loudoun scope of services each provide, and to County Board of Supervisors favoring whom chiefs and sheriffs report. the County move to a county-wide In Loudoun, the sheriff provides full police department, rather than the service – meaning he or she has pri- current Sheriff’s Office, prompted this mary responsibility over enforcement, Blue Ridge Leader interview with Sher- the Adult Detention Center, and the iff Mike Chapman. The BOS has since Courts. This integrated effort enables decided to have a study conducted on seamless coordination between practi- the matter. Such a change would ulti- cally all law enforcement matters – to mately have to be put to a referendum include crime prevention, education, by the voters. Chapman was elected enforcement, school safety, commu- Ready, set, Sheriff in 2011, and is currently serving nity outreach, court security, mental the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area his third term, which began in January health services, and re-entry programs determined that Loudoun County has had a 32 percent reduction in serious learn! of this year. to reduce recidivism for individuals re- leased from incarceration. This interop- crime over the past eight years. BY LAURA LONGLEY Blue Ridge Leader: What is the dif- erability and the sheriff’s professional Police departments, conversely, han- School is about to start, and despite all ference between a sheriff’s office staff largely explain Loudoun’s success dle only duties related to law enforce- the unknowns, teachers and staff are ready and a police department? in having the lowest crime rate in the ment, including crime prevention, in- for almost anything. Virginia Metropolitan-D.C. area, and its vestigations, school resource officers, “We’ve been incredibly busy with train- Sheriff Mike Chapman: The two near-90 percent citizen satisfaction rat- and traffic enforcement. These respon- ing,” said Wyade Byard, Loudoun County main differences between sheriff’s of- ing. The Council of Governments for CONTINUED ON PAGE 14» Public Schools spokesman. “As we speak, staff is at Culbert Elementary School learning the proper way to wear PPE—per- sonal protective equipment.” Until mid-July, just like you, the school Middleburg at a Historic Crossroad? district was anticipating either a full re- turn to school or a hybrid program—two BY LAURA LONGLEY of Rt. 50 and east of Sam Fred Road. days in class, three days at home learn- Town Planning On July 27, after three hours of dis- In a unanimous vote (with Commis- ing remotely. The teachers had been fully cussion in a high stakes meeting to sioner Mimi Stein absent), the Commis- trained for both approaches. The district’s Commission determine the fate of a by-right, 28-lot sioners elected to give developer An- communications team had even prepared cluster subdivision with 10 rural econo- drew Hertneky, Middleburg Land 1 LLC postpones decision “day in the life” videos of fictional stu- my lots, the Town of Middleburg Plan- manager, two more weeks to address dents—fourth-grader “Sebastian” and ning Commission decided in the end to remaining questions and make any ad- on Banbury Cross high schooler “Anna.” Even though the postpone. The proposal, which is called justments necessary to the preliminary school district will begin the year with development Banbury Cross Reserve, is located north plat. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22» CONTINUED ON PAGE 24» CALL JOHN. 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In a talk before the Loudoun Branch Black Education in of the NAACP, historian Larry Roeder told Edwin Washington’s story, found in Loudoun long-forgotten documents of Loudoun County’s education archives. “In June BY LAURA LONGLEY 1867, a ‘colored’ 16-year-old boy named If you think this is the most challeng- Edwin Washington worked in a hotel ing time for America to provide a good in Leesburg, Virginia for five dollars a education for all, just look back 155 years month, plus board, with the ‘privilege of to the end of the Civil War, and imagine coming to school’ in between errands,” creating a brand new, fully function- Roeder recounted. “Unfortunately, this ing system to provide millions of Black meant he couldn’t attend school on Americans with schools, teachers, and a regular basis, or at all during Court the time to learn. weeks. Still, he went to class whenever Tapping the resources of the Black he could.” And he began to write. Mak- History Committee of Friends of Thom- ing his first attempts at composition, Students and teachers at Waterford’s Second Street School. as Balch Library chaired by Donna Boha- Edwin wrote the following, titled “Going non, the Edwin Washington Project led to School”: Schools within a year of the war, one were taught now exists as a private res- by Larry Roeder, historian and mapmak- I think it is a very good thing to of them was run by Richard Bailey, an idence. er Eugene Scheel, and the “Nest of Abo- go to school and learn to read and African American educator. Elsewhere litionists” blog on the Quakers of Goose The Teachers Arrive write. It is the first opportunity we in western Loudoun, schools for Black Creek by Lee Lawrence, we’ve pulled to- ever had, and we ought to make students opened in Hillsboro, Water- Because the Freedmen’s Bureau had gether this brief introduction to that era. good use of it. I think it will be a ford, Middleburg, Brownsville (Harmo- so few staff and little money, it worked ny/Hamilton), Woodgrove (Round Hill), with northern benevolent organizations The Freedmen’s Bureau and Loudoun’s First great improvement to us. We ought Willisville, and Goose Creek. and African American communities to Black Schools to love our teacher and mind her and respect her; and if we love her The Quakers of Goose Creek, renamed place northern teachers in freed people’s In 1865, nothing was in place for the she will love us, and we ought to love Lincoln in 1865, had supported high schools in the South. creation of schools. Therefore, Congress and respect everybody. Signed Ed- quality education since arriving here in The American Missionary Society and created an agency, not surprisingly short win Washington. the mid-1730s. As of 1815, their one- the American Freedmen’s Union Com- on funds and personnel, called the Bu- room Oakdale School served the children mission recruited and paid teachers. The Today, the Edwin Washington Project, reau of Refugees, Freedmen and Aban- of the village and surrounding farms, in- Freedmen’s Bureau then assigned the using unearthed lost records, is docu- doned Lands, it became known as the cluding Black children. The first public teachers to schools and provided them menting segregated schools in Loudoun Freedmen’s Bureau. Later assessments school built for African Americans, on with transportation. The local African County.