The Town of Culpeper’s Light and Power Department has embarked on several projects designed to increase reliability of the electric service provided to its 4,800 residential and commercial customers.

When Dominion Virginia Power, the town Light and Power’s electricity provider, begins replacing several worn out transformers, town electric customers will experience short power outages on successive Sunday mornings in June.

It's budget season in Culpeper and the document being prepared by the town council will guide spending for fiscal year 2014 beginning July 1.

With the increase of the town meals tax by a penny approved, the Culpeper Town Council turned to other budget matters at a special meeting May 16.

The former English and history double-major who never thought he'd be involved in newspapers has purchased the remaining family shares of Times Community Media, a Northern Virginia-based firm that operates four daily news websites, their weekly print editions and two business magazines, making him the strong-majority owner of the company.

Art has many forms and even more advantages for young minds. Students learn the benefits of communication, exploration, imagination, along with cultural and historical understanding through the arts, according to those who teach it.

There's license to be nosy this weekend during the annual Hunt Country Stable Tour. Visitors get carte blanche to plumb the depths of 10 of the region's most historic horse farms, visit the backstretch of the local training track and tour Middleburg's renowned sporting library, museum and agricultural research center.

The Town of Culpeper has begun taking applications for its second annual Citizen’s Academy slated to begin in July, lasting seven weeks.

Information from the public based on a last week’s news release about nine recent heroin overdoses, including two deaths, in the region resulted in the arrest of three Culpeper men on drug charges early this morning.

Culpeper police are seeking the public’s help identifying a woman who presented an alleged counterfeit check at a local check-cashing service in early May.

Art has many forms and even more advantages for young minds. Students learn the benefits of communication, exploration, imagination, along with cultural and historical understanding through the arts, according to those who teach it.

The Town of Culpeper has begun taking applications for its second annual Citizen’s Academy slated to begin in July, lasting seven weeks.

To better inform citizens and answer questions, Mayor Chip Coleman announced that he will begin hosting quarterly Town Hall Meetings starting this summer.

Derek McWilliams has been named the new assistant principal for Floyd T. Binns Middle School, effective July 1. He will be replacing W. Nelson Gilbert who is retiring.

On Target Trainers is offering a Utah Concealed Firearm course at the Jeffersonton Community Center, 5073 Jeffersonton Road.,Jeffersonton,VA,22724 on May 22 from 6 to 10 p.m.

Tranquility Farm Equestrian is an equine therapy farm located at 16371 Glen Ella Road in Culpeper.

It didn’t surprise Forest Park baseball coach Sonny Moss much when Gar-Field pulled within one run in the sixth inning of Friday’s Cardinal District matchup between the Indians and Bruins in Woodbridge. Neither recent history (the Bruins are back-to-back district tournament champions) nor the teams’ 2013 records meant a thing on that or any given day. “No team is any kind of gimme at all,” said Moss, whose Bruins improved to 11–6 and 7–3 in the Cardinal District with Friday’s 7–3 win. We prepare the same for every game.”

Charter buses carrying Williams ES students home from a field trip to Richmond Science Center are en route to the school following a traffic mishap involving a chain reaction about 13 miles south of Fredericksburg.

Culpeper County Public Schools is proud to announce that Randi Richards-Lutz, Administrator for Career and Technical Education, has been named National School Administrator of the Year by Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).

Each year, organizers of the Monte Carlo Scholarship Casino Night raise the ante.