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Purcellville and Hamilton News: commuter lot, water theft and an Emancipation Celebration
Good news for commuters
A permanent commuter lot of up to 150 spaces should be ready on Business Route 7, east of Hamilton, sometime in 2010, according to Nancy Gourley at the county's transportation office. The county has approved and funded Phase 1 – one ballfield and parking -- of the development of a sports complex on land partly donated and party sold to the county by Dennis and Linda Virts.
Commuters will continue to use the 90 spaces at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Purcellville. For the rest of summer, commuters can park at Harmony Intermediate School west of Hamilton. When school reopens in September, they will park at Franklin Park between Purcellville and Round Hill.
Where they will park in summer 2009, when the pool reopens at Franklin Park, has not been determined.
Purcellville
Lock up
Police Chief Darryl Smith reports that unlocked vehicles and garages in Village Case, Purcellville Ridge and Kings Bridge have been broken into. The thieves seem to favor GPS units, cash and other "items of value."
No locked vehicles or garages have been entered recently.
The police urge all residents to keep the cars and trucks locked, and double-check garage doors – the access to your house.
Call the Police Department at 540-338-7422 to report suspicious activity or thefts.
Emancipation Celebration
Reggie Simms and Jay Johnson, with help from the Purcellville Preservation Association, are laying plans to make the Sept. 20 Emancipation Celebration at the Carver school the best community get-together ever.
Better yet, there's lots of room for volunteers to be part of making it happen.
"We are acknowledging the Emancipation Proclamation," Johnson said, "but we are celebrating a day for family and community of all races and origins to get together."
The day will include educational exhibits, lectures, tours, film programs, a picnic lunch and performances by local choirs and blues guitarists.
Go to www.ppa-va.org for updates, and announcements of times and places for volunteers to get started. Call Meredith Thomas (540-338-2238) or Jay Johnson (540-751-1919, 540-454-0364) for more information and to get involved.
Water theft
Three cases of water theft are on the books in the last three weeks, according to Town Manager Robert Lohr. Contractors installing landscaping, residents filling pools and those washing down vehicles or equipment are all part of the problem, which costs every resident money. The town will levy the stiffest fines it can, Lohr said, and will confiscate equipment used in the thefts. Criminal charges also are possible.
Residents who report thefts are eligible for rewards. Call Samer Beidas, public works director, at 540-751-2314, to report any suspected theft of town water.
Hamilton
Special meeting
Council called a special session July 21 and approved David Cummings' request to hook his South St. Paul Street home up to the town's sewer system. The home is in the original special tax district, established in the mid-1990s to get out-of-town residents whose septic systems have failed onto the town's sewer system.
Long-term planning
Mayor Ray Whitbey said the council will be setting a date, probably in the fall after children are back in school, for a retreat. At the retreat – the first in more than two years -- the council members and mayor will set long-term goals for the town and where it should be going.
Lovettsville
Heritage Highlands hearing
The town's Planning Commission will hold a public hearing July 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall. The hearing concerns Heritage Highlands, the age-restricted community on south Berlin Pike near the intersection with South Loudoun Street.
Lennar Homes, the developer of Heritage Highlands, wants the Town of Lovettsville to allow a third occupant who is 25 or older in the homes to assist a resident, to allow 20 percent of the homes in Heritage Highlands to have no age restriction for residents, to change the time a guest can stay from 30 days to 180 days and to change the rules to allow a primary resident who is not the owner.
All town residents are encouraged to speak at the public hearing. Town Hall is at 6 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
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