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Today's riddle: Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Governmental Meetings – Week of October 5, 2026 (pjrnews.com) — Culpeper residents can track this week's key public meetings, including Tuesday's morning and evening Board of Supervisors sessions at the county BOS meeting room. The listing also notes that early voting for the November 3 general election has begun at the Culpeper Director of Elections office, alongside regional meetings in neighboring counties and towns.
• Culpeper Police Officers are injured in a structure fire (theriver953.com) — Three Culpeper police officers and one resident were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after officers helped evacuate a burning two-story structure on Old Fredericksburg Road. Multiple Culpeper fire and rescue crews brought the October 4 blaze under control, but Old Fredericksburg Road and Wolford Street stayed closed to traffic until about 9 p.m. while crews worked the scene.
• Culpeper businessman pleads 'no contest' of embezzling from Culpeper County business (pjrnews.com) — A Culpeper business owner who runs Fulton Moto and Fulton Coffee on East Davis Street received a fully suspended six-year jail sentence after pleading no contest to six reduced misdemeanor embezzlement charges in Culpeper County Circuit Court. He must complete supervised probation, community service, and over $14,000 in restitution, a deal his father and stepmother, the victims, opposed.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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