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However, a good time is what probably cost Ryan, 28, his life, as he went missing during a beer run one night 21 years ago and was never seen alive again. His partially decomposed body was found six months later in a shallow grave just across the border in western Loudoun County.

“It’s been hard on us,” Ott, 53, of Kearneysville, W.Va., said of her brother’s still-unsolved murder.

“Without funds to purchase the land in Wheatland for public school purposes, staff recommends that the School Board terminate the contracts with Mr. Cangiano and Mr. Burgess.” Such was the lone agenda item on the special meeting of the Loudoun County School Board held on June 1. It passed 9-0.

The final official act of the months long–and now failed–effort by the Loudoun County School Board to secure a three-school site in western Loudoun on the Cangiano/Burgess property at Wheatlands will play out during a special School Board meeting on Monday, June 1, at 1:30 p.m. in the School Board Meeting Room at the School Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn.