A new law is sure to get many Virginians to put down their phones while driving. As of July 1, it is illegal to text message while operating a motor vehicle in the state.

County officials are looking for a few good citizens to serve on area boards, committees and commissions.

Property owners challenge subdivision ordinance

Interim superintendent yields to Dr. Grimesey

Thursday night the Orange County Planning Commission, with a 5 to 4 vote, recommended supervisors approve a special use permit which would allow a 138,000-square-foot Walmart supercenter to be built near the intersection of Route 3 and Route 20.

Anthony and Gissela Beasley and their children Kevin, Keanna and Anthony Jr. are the Habitat house’s new owners.

Police say a Locust Grove woman is dead after a Monday night crash in Orange County.

Notes from the June 15 Orange Town Council meeting:

Last week, an Albemarle County Circuit Court judge ruled that felony possession of a hoax device charges against Mark Ryland Dowdy won’t be dropped, in spite of Dowdy’s accusations of misconduct against Albemarle County Authorities and a county prosecutor.

His next clear memory is of waking up at the University of Virginia hospital in Charlottesville, heading into a second surgery for a badly broken left arm.

Recent rainfall totals have kept emergency drought measures off the radar, but county officials are readying their state-required long-term water supply plan for future days of dry weather.

Gordonsville planners recommend approval to council

Rains good for river, not crops

As automobile dealerships nationwide brace for fallout from General Motors’ bankruptcy and restructure, local dealerships-their franchises safe for the time being, are rising to the challenge of representing the recovering auto corporation.

Grymes Memorial students, faculty, parents, and alumni gathered together on Friday, May 29 for the 20th annual field day.

Meetings established to hear citizen suggestions

Notes from the June 9 Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday

Gordonsville planners consider ordinance, board of architectural review

Traffic environmental, historical impacts addressed

Public comment not permitted again until board hearing

My name is Shannon Clore Abbs. I am a candidate for the District 1 seat on the board of supervisors.

Voters have choices in supervisor races

Judge rules games continue until Oct. trial

1,200-student school should open fall 2010

Focus on furnishings, interior

Notes from the May 26 Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting.

County, towns talk tipping fees

Notes from the Orange County School Board’s June meeting

Friends and fellow law enforcement officers are remembering the life of Greene County deputy and former Orange County deputy Chadwick “Chad” Alan Carr, killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer on Route 230 near Greene Hills Country Club last Thursday.