The United States Postal Service will hold a public meeting in Charlottesville Wednesday to discuss a proposal to shut down a local postal facility.

The Orange County Health Department will join others in Central Florida that have recently partnered with schools to get students vaccinated against the swine flu .

It took only a couple of hours today for a jury to find Gary Delgross guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal beating of an Orange County man with a carpenter's level.

Members of the newly formed 4-H Eco-ventures Club hit the ground running last month.

Residents in drivers in Orange County who use AT&T devices should be seeing an improvement in service in the wake of recent upgrades.

Aerojet, under contract to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory , recently completed ground testing of an advanced Scramjet engine combustor demonstrating a new thermal management approach.

Employees of retail and hospitality-related businesses are getting first crack at becoming "certified tourism ambassadors" under an education program sponsored by the national Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Partnership.

Every year in October, the Town of Orange sets the rate it charges the Rapidan Service Authority for water.

The Orange Community Band will present an autumn concert Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Orange County High School.

Out in the countryside of Orange County , historians are working to breathe new life into an old battle.

After delaying their decision two weeks ago, the Town of Orange Planning Commission recommended approval of the Uptown North Orange rezoning application at their meeting Tuesday night, a decision that took less than 30 minutes.

Civil War Union Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain wrote of our national battlefields: "Generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by great things suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream." Fast forward to the 21st century.

Receiving 97 votes in our Weekly Challenge makes Joe Stange of Orange this week's caption contest winner.

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.