https://themiddleburgpage.com/Hunt Country stories from Hunt Country Network.en-ushttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/next-recession-newspapers.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/next-recession-newspapers.htmlWed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000That was the grim message from former Wall Street Journal deputy publisher Dick Tofel to the local news investors who bought and rebuilt The Fauquier Times … and he warned that it’s not if, but when. “We haven’t had a regular recession in this country in almost 20 years,” Tofel said. “When we have thttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/mars-is-closer-than-you-think.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/mars-is-closer-than-you-think.htmlWed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000### By Dana Priest The blind Husky with a “let’s play!” expression kept drawing Eryka Hackett’s attention to Middleburg Humane Foundation’s adoption page, even though she had five rescue cats and a Husky from an abusive home living with her in the townhouse she shares with her mom. Still, Hackett cohttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/sandy-lerner-auction.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/sandy-lerner-auction.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Sandy Lerner, famous for building network router company Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley, for preserving Jane Austen’s family home in England, and for her organic farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country, is auctioning an array of art, furniture and other objects from her house on Ayrshire Farm in Uppervillehttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/race-before-the-race.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/race-before-the-race.htmlWed, 02 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000What keeps Rob Marino up at night is his worry that upcoming changes in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) are about to knock up to 1,500 Fauquier County residents off their Medicaid insurance. The Fauquier Free Clinic already spends every cent of the nearly $3 million it raises to take care of morehttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/gold-cup-passes-the-reins.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/gold-cup-passes-the-reins.htmlWed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000Old and dear friends Will Allison and Al Griffin are passing Gold Cup’s Chairmanship, from what they describe as something very much like from the mentor to the student; from the father to the son. “Will has been so many things to so many people,” Al says. “Part big brother, part uncle, part confidahttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/la-caccia-chase-club.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/la-caccia-chase-club.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000Before the dust settles, Kevin Ash will have built two hotels, three upscale public restaurants, three cafes, and a members only club in Leesburg, Warrenton and Middleburg. Here in Middleburg it will be an Italian Restaurant, “LaCaccia”, (“The Hunt”) next to the Post Office, also the meaning of his https://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/sporting-library-horse.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/sporting-library-horse.htmlWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000Middleburg — The standing room only audience of riders at the National Sporting Library & Museum gasped when Dr. Janet Jones, a cognitive scientist who trained hundreds of difficult and green horses over the years, declared that riding a horse is 20 times more dangerous than riding a motorcycle. “I https://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/textile-museum.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/textile-museum.htmlWed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000For millennia, horses have captivated humans with their beauty, strength and majesty. From Türkiye to Japan, civilizations have elaborately costumed these prized animals. A magnificent selection of saddle covers, horse blankets and other equestrian textiles from the past 1,300 years communicates thehttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/artists-in-middleburg.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/artists-in-middleburg.htmlWed, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000“Wolf”, a charcoal by local artist Oyunaa Waskin, won ‘Best of Show’ in the Artists in Middleburg’s (AiM) “The Animal in Art” exhibit running through June 14th at the gallery on 102 W. Wash­ ington Street in Middleburg. “By blending ink-like techniques with the softness of charcoal, I create depth ahttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/steal-this-story.htmlhttps://themiddleburgpage.com/stories/steal-this-story.htmlWed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000Shortly after KPFT radio in Houston went on the air in 1970 as one of the first progressive Pacifica radio stations, the Ku Klux Klan strapped dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blew it up, journalist Amy Goodman – who built and runs the acclaimed Democracy Now! news broadcast – told a rapt