Orange News

Eastern Orange County's largest landowner, the King family, has made Wal-Mart an offer its members believe would defuse the national controversy over the retailer's proposed store in the Wilderness battlefield area.

So, here I am at the Ponderay, Idaho Super Wal-Mart. It is beautiful. They've totally redesigned it to be far more wide open, with immense aisles, immaculately clean surfaces, and somehow still a fabulously good selection of items.

Once upon a time , there were some happy homeowners who had an unobstructed view of some ponds behind a nearby high school .

In June, after my Navy ship reunion in Norfolk, Va., a friend and I visited the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., the Jefferson and Monroe presidential family homes near Charlottesville and Madison's near Orange, Va.

Orange County supervisors have unanimously approved spending $1,000 to secure an option on land for a new combined fire and rescue station.

After an hour of discussion in a closed session last night, Orange County supervisors took two minutes to fire County Administrator Bill Rolfe and to appoint Julie Jordan as acting county administrator.

Orange County supervisors are taking the county administrator to the woodshed tonight over his suggestion that they explore other possible sites for a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is wearing handcuffs and leg chains as he arrived at a federal courthouse in Houston to face fraud and conspiracy charges.

The James Madison Museum honored the father of the Constitution last week by showing one of the only five portraits of the fourth president painted from life.

Carter Nicholas was pouring wine with one hand and making change with the other.

ORANGE, Va. - Wal-Mart's proposal to build a Supercenter near a hallowed Civil War battlefield is headed to its first vote Thursday.

The skies above the Orange will be lit up July 4 thanks to Celebrate Orange's sixth annual Picnic in the Park.

Terry Detrie of Washington, Pa., rolled over in his tent at 5 a.m. yesterday and began packing up his gear.

The town of Culpeper's ongoing celebration of its 250th anniversary will get a boost today from some 2,000 bicyclists riding across central Virginia.

A Virginia man has been charged with reckless operation of an aircraft after he clipped a skydiver's parachute.

County home, at least for one night. The Bike Virginia riders will arrive in town June 23.

Local citizens will soon get the opportunity to voice their opinions about the future use of the old public works lots in the Town of Orange.

The Orange County Animal Shelter is looking for people to take in its dogs for two weeks starting at the end of the month while the facility's 50 kennels get a needed fix-up. "We'll be resurfacing the concrete floors and cinder-block walls," said shelter Director Beth Hamilton.

The director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says their security training helped save lives when guards quickly shot an elderly gunman who opened fire with a rifle.

Orange County should resolve the National Park Service's concerns about the Wal-Mart retail center proposed in the Wilderness battlefield area, a state agency says.