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🌱 How Orange County’s Hornets kept their playoff dreams alive Friday night

Orange, Virginia Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Orange! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Orange County’s Hornets kept their playoff dreams alive Friday night
  • How an Orange, Virginia chapter shaped a now-celebrated abstract artist

Also on today's calendar: Family Storytime @ Main and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped? 🤔 (Answer below!)

☑️ Important voting information: The Nov. 3 general election is coming up. Official Virginia election resources: Find your polling place | Register to vote | Check your registration | Absentee, mail and early voting.

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Partly sunny and cooler, with a high of 62 and low of 42 degrees.
  • Sunday: Sunshine and a few clouds, temps: high: 64, low: 46.
  • Monday: Partial sunshine, with a high of 62 and low of 43 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Orange County holds off Charlottesville 26-20 on Black Knight senior night (29news.com) — Orange County’s football team kept its playoff hopes alive Friday night with a tight 26–20 win over Charlottesville, powered by multiple rushing touchdowns from quarterback Terrial Woolfork. The Hornets capitalized on early turnovers, then held strong in a tense fourth quarter. Orange County now prepares to host Western Albemarle with postseason chances still on the line.
   

• How a Bankruptcy Auction Saved Artist Mavis Pusey From Obscurity (culturedmag.com) — An influential abstract artist, Mavis Pusey, spent part of her later career living and working in the rural town of Orange while exhibiting in nearby Charlottesville. Her carefully kept archive was nearly lost in a bankruptcy auction, but collectors and curators helped rescue hundreds of works. That effort has led to major museum shows and a long-overdue reassessment of her legacy.
   

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  • Domino's Pizza, Inc. posted a job opening for Assistant Manager(04372) - 344 Stoneridge Dr in Ruckersville. Apply here.
  • Subway posted a job opening for Sandwich Artist in Ruckersville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Orange here.

🗞 Nearby News

Madison

  • ▶︎Madison County JV's: The Other Championship Team (pjrnews.com)

Culpeper

  • Culpeper PD announces return of trading card program (pjrnews.com)
  • Publix Signs Lease for 55,000-Square-Foot Culpeper Store, 140 Jobs Coming (newsbreak.com)
  • The November argument session begins on Monday (scotusblog.com)

Ok Orange! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped?" — You have a foreign ax-sent (accent) (Thank you Carrie E. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Orange

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