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VOL. 10, NO. 40
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AUGUST 14, 2025
FirstEnergy Briefs Residents on 500kV Power Line Plan BY HANNA PAMPALONI
hpampaloni@loudounnow.org
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irstEnergy on Tuesday hosted its first community meeting on a 500-kilovolt transmission line that it is proposing to build along existing rights-of-way through northern Loudoun. The Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek Improvements Project was supported by PJM Interconnection, the regional power coordinator, to help provide regional grid reliability. It is expected to be built along 44 miles of existing ROW through Frederick, Loudoun, Clarke and Jefferson counties. The proposal would upgrade an existing single 138-kV line to create double circuit 500-kV and 138-kV lines. “This is going to enhance grid reliability for growing demands of electricity by residential and commercial customers,” Senior Communications Representative Will Boye said. He said the existing H-frame structures are approximately 65 feet tall. The new towers, built alongside those, will be taller but slenderer monopoles. “The average height of the new structures would be 185 feet,” Boye said. POWER LINE continues on page 8
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The Paxton campus in Leesburg has been home to The Arc of Loudoun rent-free for 16 years. Last week, after negotiations to renew the lease failed, and after news that The Arc would need to vacate the campus by the start of the school year, the Paxton Trust changed the locks including on the front gate which serves as the primary entrance to the campus.
Paxton Trust Takes Control of Campus, Locks Out The Arc of Loudoun BY HANNA PAMPALONI
hpampaloni@loudounnow.org
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he Paxton Trust has taken full control of its Leesburg campus that has housed The Arc of Loudoun for the past 16 years. The Arc of Loudoun CEO Lisa Max announced late Saturday night that a security
service and locksmith had changed the locks that day, prior to the organization clearing all its equipment from the site. The action comes after more than a year of negotiations to renew the nonprofit’s expired lease failed. “At 5:53 on Saturday evening – well after locks were changed shut – [Paxton attorney Jay] Chadwick sent an email to some of The
Arc’s Board members informing them that the trustees were ending The Arc’s tenancy on campus effective immediately and without notice,” Max stated in an email. Max said that security personnel told them that nothing was removed from any of
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