A day, or a weekend, at the Orange County Fair is a day well-spent.
It’s nearly 100 degrees outside and inside your football helmet it’s even hotter.
Community newspapers are reflections of the communities they serve.
Tuesday evening, Orange County Schools got a major administrative shake-up that ended with five schools getting new principals next fall and two new central office appointments.
What’s the Fourth of July without a picnic or fireworks?
After more than a decade of controversy, debate, citizen activism and finally governmental intervention, the future of the Lake of the Woods dam is at last resolved.
Congratulations to the Orange County Litter Control Committee and the Orange Downtown Alliance for their upcoming Trashy Ribs and Blues idea.
We’ve studied our Town of Orange map a long time and can’t find Disfunction Junction. Clearly its here.
What an exciting day! A day filled equally with rampant anticipation, yet uncertain fear. Saturday morning, Orange County High School conferred degrees to 378 graduating seniors.
This spring, as the war in Iraq grinds bloodily on past its seven-year anniversary and the war in Afghanistan has passed the eight-year mark, Memorial Day should be anything but an abstract concept.
Lame duck sessions can be interesting times. Elected officials can opt to initiate or execute any number of legislative acts for their successors to enjoy or decry. Or, they can simply table motions or issues and leave them for the incoming board or council.
Well, as so often is the case, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that after a particularly stressful budget season, school officials find themselves with a rather unexpected and unanticipated chunk of money.
Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers.
Every year, Aging Together holds a Community Conversation on Aging in Orange County.
Collectively, more people voted in Tuesday’s town council election than the last council election, but more people are registered, too. Overall, the turnout was the same–20 percent.
The Virginia Dental Association, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the newly formed Piedmont Regional Dental Clinic (PRDC) will host the area's first free Piedmont Regional Mission of Mercy (MOM) Dental Day for Virginia under-insured and uninsured adults Saturday, May 1.
Orange residents probably don't remember May 6, 2008. They should. That day, faced with five viable candidates for two town council seats, only 470 of the town's 2,306 registered voters participated.
Last week, we objected vehemently to the Orange Town Council’s discussion of eliminating the police department.
How much is enough?
Budget balance
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