The Loudoun Times-Mirror on June 7 awarded 28 high school students with Athletes of the Year awards during the inaugural banquet.

On Feb. 21, Wayne and Carolyn Reynolds celebrated 60 years of marriage. They share their secret to a lifetime of love and happiness together with the Loudoun Times-Mirror

The Chorus of the Old Dominion, a group of 15 to 22 men, have sung together for nearly a decade. On Feb. 7, the group was rehearsing for its annual Singing Valentine ritual, where the serenade residents on the big day. The event is the staple of the group’s fundraising.

Willy, a 7-year-old labradoodle, survived days caught in a fence in freezing temperatures.

The U.S. Department of Agricultural worked from Jan. 7-11, 2013, to scare off a roost of at least 200 black and turkey vultures from a Leesburg neighborhood. The vultures were stripping bark from trees and tearing apart the rubber on roofs and cars, as well as causing a health hazard.

On Aug. 16, the crew of the B-17 Aluminum Overcast Flying Fortress took the media and two World War II veterans up for a ride in the historic aircraft. The aircraft is open for tours and rides from Aug. 17-19 at Leesburg Executive Airport.

The Dip-Set team, one of only two step teams in Loudoun County practices at Seneca Ridge Middle School for an upcoming event.

High school seniors who were named Future Leaders by the Loudoun Times-Mirror at the annual Loudoun School-Business Partnership Recognition Breakfast were honored and presented with $1,500 scholarships. Diana Gretzkowski, from Potomac Falls High School, was awarded a $3,000 scholarship.

Chris Cooley: Professional potter.

The sport of polo booming at Great Meadow, home of the Gold Cup Races.

Each year, the Loudoun Times-Mirror celebrates some of the county’s most outstanding senior students, chosen from a spectrum of scholastic pursuits, such as civic outreach, sports, arts and science. The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation has generously underwritten the annual program.

Nichols Hardware, a mercantile establishment in the same family’s hands for more than eight decades, is the subject of a film currently being shot in western Loudoun County.

A Loudoun resident discovers the lost art of crafting dry stack stone walls—and shares it with others in an award-winning documentary film.