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.

For the ninth consecutive year, the Town of Culpeper Treasurer’s Office received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (CAFR) awarded by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA).

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