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Gordonsville leader Dixie Colvin dies at 86
Gordonsville lost a longtime community servant last week when Coleman “Dixie” Clark Colvin died last Tuesday at the age of 86.
Church bulletins
Church bulletins for May
Orange County Farmers Market opens
The Orange County Farmers and Artisans Market opened its new season Saturday in a new location.
Shady Grove celebrates mortgage burning
Shady Grove Baptist Church celebrated a truly momentous occasion Saturday, May 5—the burning of the church’s mortgage.
Volunteers out in force for Rebuilding Together
Volunteers were out in full force Saturday morning, making repairs to a Poplar Road home as part of Rebuilding Together’s National Rebuilding Day.
Remembering Roberts
A lonesome steam whistle moaned over Gordonsville Saturday afternoon in a fitting tribute to the passing of Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Association co-founder and former District 1 Supervisor William G. “Bill” Roberts.
Oh, what fun it is to ride...
The Therapeutic Adventure Camp of Orange offered a glimpse of the fun to be had this summer with a spring day camp two weeks ago.
Walk for Life
The Pregnancy Centers of Central Virginia, Orange location, raised more than $13,000 Saturday with their annual Walk for Life.
Gordonsville Volunteer Fire Company Banquet
It was a busy year for the Gordonsville Volunteer Fire Company, which logged nearly 6,000 hours of work on more than 400 calls in the past year.
First Friday Bluegrass Jam
The popular Locust Grove First Friday Bluegrass Jam was back in session Friday night for some down-home fun.
Orange County man sings praises for organ donors
After two years, Don Leake no longer has to plug in his heart when he goes to sleep at night.
Not his story
Frank Walker is adamant when he says he is "irrelevant." This well-respected local author, historian, and community leader presents as if he'd like to keep himself anonymous by any and all means.
Hinton-Jackson highlights NAACP banquet
Dr. Hortense Hinton-Jackson literally had people on the edge of their seats and shouting “hallelujah” Saturday night at the 33rd annual Orange County Branch NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet.
Presidential portrait
As dozens of school children run around the visitor’s center at Montpelier, fully engulfed in the ecstasy of a mid-day field trip, John Douglas Hall prepares himself a coffee.
Local teams rally early for Relay for Life
The Orange Relay for Life isn’t until June, but for the 13 teams involved the relay has already started. The teams and their members are hard at work, hosting dinners, bake sales and other events to raise money for the cause.
Little roses, big dreams
Nothing about Sleepy Hollow Bed and Breakfast in Somerset appears out of the ordinary. There is a small pond with an accompanying gazebo, tea service with cookies, the promise of peaceful solitude and a wandering black lab, nosing into laps, especially those of strangers, in hopes of a brief scratch. Away from the main house, though, in a small, unassuming cottage, is a line reaching out to another world, a line connecting the scenic seclusion of Somerset with the harshest realities of poverty in Honduras.
Empowerment on display at OCHS
It was all about the students Friday night in the Orange County High School auditorium.
Act IV: Behind the scenes
This is part four in a series on the anatomy of a Four County Players’ production. In this series we will follow the Barboursville theater’s March musical, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” from conception to opening curtain.
Educators and students gather to celebrate Lightfoot Elementary
Former and current Lightfoot Elementary School educators and students gathered at the school Saturday afternoon to celebrate its history.
Chestnut Grove full of faith
Tucked just off Route 33 sits a country church with a faithful group of followers who have been worshipping in the area for more than a century.
Act III: Rehearsals
This is part three in a series on the anatomy of a Four County Players’ production. In this series we will follow the Barboursville theater’s March musical, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” from conception to opening curtain.
Historic Bethel church still serves
At the intersection of Independence and Marquis Roads in Unionville sits Bethel Baptist facing east. In front of the church is a large stone landmark commemorating the church’s 90th year in 1982. The landmark and the church itself argue silently over the church’s founding, the stone saying 1892 and the front of the church saying 1890. The argument is really over what makes a church: is it a congregation worshipping together, perhaps outside, or is it literally the walls, doors and windows that together create a space for worship and together reach skyward. In the case of Bethel Baptist, it is certainly both.
Orange woman vies for Virginia pageant title
Orange County resident Trinicia Lee is preparing for another run for the Ms. Wheelchair Virginia pageant.
Looking forward through the lens of the past
At the eastern end of the county, amidst the hustle and bustle of Route 3 is a small, peaceful, county church, where worship has been led every Sunday for more than a century.
New 4-H agent no stranger to group
The Orange County Cooperative Extension Office didn’t have to look far to find its next 4-H agent.
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