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🌱 How Sterling residents pushed back on rising power bills and data centers

Coming up on the Sterling Patch calendar: Free High Holidays Service: Erev Rosh Hashanah

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  • How Sterling residents pushed back on rising power bills and data centers

Also on today's calendar: Free High Holidays Service: Erev Rosh Hashanah and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Tuesday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 85 and low of 65 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 89, low: 67. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Hot with a stray thunderstorm, with a high of 90 and low of 68 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hashmi Hears Loudoun: Who Will Pay for Virginia's Energy Future? (blueridgeleader.com) — Sterling residents recently packed a community meeting with Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi to demand answers about rising electric bills, data center growth, and a proposed Dominion–NextEra merger. Local speakers described struggling with higher costs and fearing new transmission lines, while lawmakers vowed to fight the deal, push data centers to pay more, and extend state review so residents' voices carry more weight.
   

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