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

Last November, citizens elected Mark Amos as sheriff of Orange County. Leading up to the election, Mark Amos promised that as sheriff, he would put a proactive emphasis on road safety, internet crime and gang prevention. Now that he’s in office, Amos has set his sights on educating the community to follow through on his campaign promises.

County officials had planned to use grant money to extend a sewer line from the Orange County Airport to residences on Route 20. But now county officials are waiting for word about whether a major employers’ decision to shut down could make that grant money unavailable. 

Virginia Tractor will have a permanent home in Orange County. 

Dotson pitches Route 3 project to supervisors

The Town of Gordonsville put trucks on High Street in December 2001, as a temporary measure to relieve traffic congestion on Main Street, until a bypass could be built around the town.
Dreams of a bypass soon faded into the dust and diesel fumes.

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The economy may not be growing, but two local hotels are.
Owners of the Holiday Inn Express on the north end, and the Red Carpet Inn on the south end of Orange, have plans to accommodate more visitors to Orange and surrounding areas.

Youth sports leagues participants will play ball at Booster Park this year, and the county government has agreed to spend $10,000 to help make it possible.
For the first time, Orange County officials have agreed to provide supplemental funding towards the maintenance and upkeep of the Booster Park facility. 

A slump in the economy has everyone from governments to families cutting expenditures and tightening the purse strings.
Two local food pantries are also feeling the pinch. As more folks fall on hard times, more donations are needed.

Barboursville postal customers have been waiting for nearly two years to get a post office in their neighborhood. And although there have been a series of false starts and stops, a deal has finally been signed--in ink.

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.

After a two-hour deliberation, an Orange County Circuit Court jury found Charles Stagg Washington guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Marilyn Baker.

A jury today found Charles Stag Washington guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who was trying to break up a fight July 4.

Friends of Wilderness Battlefield will commemorate the 144th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness with “Politics and Personalities: The Wilderness Campaign, 1864,” Friday, May 9-Sunday, May 11.

Lynnie Bresnahan was crowned the 2008 Miss Orange County Friday night.

A Louisa County teenager was arrested last month after being accused of firing a weapon into a Gordonsville house, according to Town of Gordonsville Police

DAR chapters and bluegrass music don’t often come up in the same conversation. But the Mine Run Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) marches to a different drummer-or banjo.

Orange County’s Project Lifesaver was put to work Sunday morning, when an 80-year-old Alzheimer’s patient was reported missing in Gordonsville.

Going to high school can be one of the happiest childhood experiences, or depending on the day’s events, one of the most frightening experiences. Fortunately, Orange County High School has a dedicated man on site to ensure the safety of staff and students. Deputy Garcia Madison is the school’s resource officer.

When Johnson was asked to enter a plea, he conferred with his attorney and answered, “Not guilty.” Some of Howard’s relatives began to cry.
Johnson entered his plea to firearms and drug trafficking charges Tuesday in Charlottesville’s federal court. He is a suspect charged in connection with Howard’s death. 

Nearby, well-known Maplewood Cemetery is a well-kept cemetery where an American flag waves boldly over rows of neatly maintained graves arranged between ornate ironwork and stones. But just a short drive away, at Woodberry Cemetery, the deceased are laid to rest in far more modest setting.
There’s no less love, reverence, honor or respect for those buried at Woodberry. And there are veterans buried there too, the same as at Maplewood. At Woodberry, there are simply not enough resources, but the Woodberry Cemetery Association has plans to change that.

One of the county’s major employers has closed its doors, leaving the majority of its workforce without jobs.

Rec, childcare, new school highlight public hearing

The Wilderness Battlefield will be one of 110 Civil War battlefields, parks and historical sites that are participating in the Civil War Preservation Trust’s (CWPT) Park Day 2008 on Saturday, April 5.

James Madison’s Montpelier will host a guided tour of the James Madison Landmark Forest, a 200-acre old-growth forest, on Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m.

The Town of Orange is back on track after plans to upgrade its aging wastewater treatment plant were nearly derailed.

The man suspected of robbing the Wilderness Center Pharmacy at gunpoint last summer is finally in police custody, according to Orange County Sheriff Mark Amos.

When he thought of giving back to his community in the town of Orange, merchant Robert Luther Morin had something very literal in mind.
In the early 1980s, when he had closed down his Orange Furniture Co. and retired after 30 years, he gave the building that housed it to become The Arts Center in Orange.

Anyone who steps into the Town of Orange Police Department will instantly feel the need for space