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Gem Bingol and George Ohrstrom at the Friends’ annual meeting. Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains held our annual meeting on October 12. George Ohrstrom, the winner of our 2023 Friend of the Mountain award, generously hosted the event at his farm – Camden near […]

Loudoun Wetland; photo by Larry Meade On October 16, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted to remove a proposed Purchase Development Rights (PDR) pilot project from the work program for the Department of Planning and Zoning. The motion to remove the pilot was […]

Peter Weeks presents the State of the Mountain address at the annual meeting. Welcome and thank you for being here today! My name is Peter Weeks and I’m the President of Friends. Even though my home is on the Blue Ridge, I can’t see it! […]

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains Celebration Set for Oct. 12 Gem Bingol, a Piedmont Environmental Council field representative in Loudoun County for more than 25 years, will receive the Friend of the Mountain honor from the Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the group’s […]

From Loudoun Valley High School, our Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountain Award winner is a young woman, Arya Tadepalli, whose resume is stunning: in addition to stellar performance as a student and as an athlete, Arya has been an active volunteer in […]

Introduction With this and similar posters the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) hoped to usher in a noble new world of national sobriety. Of course, what the WCTU and their allies actually ushered in was a world of violence, corruption, and crime. Loudoun County, and […]

Matthew Soiland of Purcellville, who will attend Virginia Tech College of Engineering and was awarded $1,500 for his exceptional essay, noted that, “Being the honored recipient of the 2020 Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountains Educational Scholarship will be instrumental in helping me […]

View of Sleeter Lake