Tues., Oct

The Orange Rotary Club invites groups from Lake of the Woods to enter the 2022 Orange Christmas Parade, joining entries from Gordonsville, the Town of Orange, and beyond.

The annual parade is a great opportunity for existing and ad hoc groups to share their message and or their talents with an audience of hundreds.

Traditional entries have included government/ administrative offices, businesses, civic groups, school groups, and first responders. Other Christmas parades in the country have also included groups of residents who just like to perform and who put together a march/dance number just for parades, like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies and the Franklin Tennessee Real Power Drill Team. Your passion and imagination are the only limits!

This year’s parade will be held at 4:30 PM on Saturday, Dec. 3, with the theme, Christmas in Orange: Past | Present | Future. There will be cash prizes for winning entries in four categories.

For those who cannot enter, we encourage you to contribute to a LOW parade entry or be a sponsor of the parade itself.

For everyone else, please do come to Orange after enjoying the LOW Christkindlmarkt to cheer on neighbors from near and far! For more information, please visit orangerotaryvaorg.wixsite.com/ orangevaxmasparade.

Orange County Hazardous Waste Collection Event

Saturday, October 8, 2022

4 HOURS ONLY: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Orange County Landfill 11530 Porter Road, Orange, VA 22960

Attention Orange County Residents! Here is your chance to get rid of all that potentially dangerous stuff in your garage and basement. This event lasts only 4 hours and will end promptly at noon. No business waste accepted. Some items cannot be accepted, such as gas grill tanks. See below for more information. Must be an Orange County, VA resident or property owner to participate.

Acceptable Items Include:

• Paint • Pool Chemicals • Pesticides (Solid & Liquid) • Herbicides (Solid & Liquid) • Insecticides • Solvents • Gasoline (No Containers Over 5 Gallons) • Cleaners (Non-RCRA) • Acids & Bases • Fluorescent Lightbulbs • Aerosols • Antifreeze • Fertilizer/Oxidizers • Flammable Liquids Lab Packed • Flammable Solids (5 Gallon Max) • Small Camp-Style Propane Cylinders • Mercury Elemental & Toxic (5 Gallon Max) • Aluminum Paint (5 Gallon Max) • Oil • Batteries

Sorry, Items NOT Accepted Include:

Explosives, Compressed Gas or Petroleum Tanks (such as gas grill tanks), Fire Extinguishers, TVs or Appliances, Medical Waste, Yard Waste, Tires, Pesticide Cylinders, Asbestos, Business Waste, Unknown Cylinders, Unknown/Unlabeled Materials

by Lee Frame, District 5 Supervisor

When you get your personal property tax bill this year, you will probably find that the assessed value of your vehicle has increased. As a reminder, the personal property tax is assessed on the vehicles that you owned on Jan. 1. As I reported earlier this year, supply chain problems have resulted in fewer new cars being produced and as a result, the value of new and used cars has increased significantly. In view of this, the Supervisors reduced the tax rate on personal property during the budget process. At that time, the rate was reduced from $3.75 to $3.50 per hundred assessed value. Since car values are continuing to increase, the Supervisors recently reduced the personal property tax rate an additional $0.25 to $3.25 per hundred assessed value.

Also at that meeting, the Supervisors adopted a resolution to implement the personal property tax relief value. The Virginia Personal Property Tax Relief Act provides partial relief from the personal property tax on personal automobiles. During the 1997 campaign for Governor, the car tax was a major issue and in 1998, the Personal Property Relief Act was enacted providing car tax relief. This act planned to completely phase out the car tax in five years. Since personal property (cars) is a local tax, the commonwealth started to reimburse taxpayers directly for this tax relief. Subsequently, the commonwealth began to send the reimbursements to the localities and the localities reduced the tax owed by the relief amount. If you examine your personal property tax bill you will notice a column which indicates this relief.

Because the number and cost of cars continued to increase in the state, the cost of state reimbursement kept climbing and eventually the state held the reimbursement to localities to a fixed amount. The dollar amount provided to Orange County is fixed and due to increasing numbers and values of vehicles in the county, that fixed amount stretches over a larger personal property tax base and the relief gets smaller each year. This year, the number of vehicles went down from 35,830 to 35,274 or by 1.5%. However due to significantly increasing values of both new and used vehicles, the total value of vehicles in Orange County increased from $303 million to $421 million or 39%. As a result, the tax relief percentage dropped again. Over the years from 2007 to 2021, the percentage relief dropped from 70% to 27.19%. For 2022 the calculated relief amount has dropped to 25.46%.

The Orange County Library is experiencing a surge in usage. In the last fiscal year, 1,637 new patrons were added. That is an 83% increase over the previous year and represents five new patrons for each operating day during the year. Visits to the libraries also saw a large increase of 29% which represents 272 visits per day. The growth trend is continuing in the current fiscal year. In the first month of this year (July) as compared to July of last year, new patrons increase 68%, circulation is up 21% and juvenile circulation nearly doubled. For those who have not been to the library recently, there are many new features available. I encourage you to visit the library’s website at https://ocplva.org.

If you have questions about county government or want to let me know your feelings on specific issues, you can contact me at lframe@ orangecountyva.gov.

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