Orange News

After Jan. 1, Orange residents and organizations will no longer be able to use the town's community room.

At the 105th annual Virginia Municipal League Conference, held at the Hotel Roanoke Oct.

At the end of months of campaigning and 13 hours of voting, the District 1 Board of Supervisors race came down to just five votes.

Family members of Shannon Abbs who voted in Tuesday's election: six. Votes by which she appears to have upset an incumbent for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors: five.

Louisa's two tested incumbents have held on to their seats, but a coup has taken place in Fluvanna, and two of Orange County's five supervisors have been unseated, according to unofficial results reported by voter registrars and the state board of elections.

Published: November 2, 2009 Updated: November 2, 2009 "Consumable Tourism" is a term that I coined after a meeting in Sperryville with representatives of the Virginia Tourism Corporation in February.

Two men were charged with robbery after they held up a man in a Walmart parking lot late Thursday before going inside the store to shop, police said.

Amidst tears, lollipops and temporary tattoos, Unionville Elementary School students rolled up their sleeves on Friday to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

An eastern route for a U.S. 29 bypass of Charlottesville has been taken off a consultant's map, but some of the state's top decision-makers said this week a bypass still is needed.

The new emergency room in Spotsylvania County has doctors, nurses, exam rooms and parking for ambulances out back.

A little more than two centuries after the fact, the Marquis de Lafayette is finally getting an official nod in Orange County .

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground boasts nine presidential homes along its 180-mile route, with 13 national parks and enough Civil War sites to keep even the biggest history buffs occupied for weeks.

Supervisors don't always agree, but when it comes to VDOT's idea to route a major north-south arterial state highway directly through Orange County, the board is unanimous with a resounding "No!" Interim Planning Director Debbie Kendall said state transportation planners proposed to alleviate current congestion and travel problems on Route 29 by ...

Every cattleman doesn't always have enough calves to fill a trailer. But that shouldn't mean he gets paid less for good, healthy, preconditioned animals.

In the dusk of May 6, 1864, along what is now Virginia Route 3, one could hear the horrific screams of the dying as they were engulfed by battlefield flames, their cries punctuated by the popping explosions of cartridges that the fire ignited in their pockets.

The gist: Orange County officials must resolve issues over swine-flu clinics. October 16, 2009 S wine- flu deaths across Florida now top 100.

Jerry Bledsoe is running for re-election to the Orange County School Board. As chairman, he represents the entire county, not just a single district.

Six candidates are vying for two seats on the five-member Orange County Board of Supervisors.

Orange County investigators continue to seek information about the death of a toddler killed by her family's dog, but little has been revealed.

One line drawn in a study of U.S. 29, while small on paper, is making some residents fret that the marking would pave the way for an asphalt swath through one of Albemarle County's rural and historic areas.