Promoting a “contract with fellow citizens of the town of Orange” to oppose water and sewer rate and real estate tax increases, Ryan Gibson and Kent Higginbotham were elected to the Orange Town Council Tuesday.

Tuesday, May 6, voters will head to the polls to elect two members, for four-year terms, to Orange Town Council.

It will cost more to own land in Orange County when the next real estate tax bill comes due, because the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to adopt the $133,160,815 budget, to adopt a $.05 tax rate increase, (bringing the rate to $0.47 per $100 of assessed valuation), and to adopt a FY 2008-09 $51,049,288 capital improvements plan.

State reinstates partial jail funding