This weekend

Well, we've cleared 2,500 unique visitors in the 46 hours since the paper was posted online, which is high for the middle of the summer. A large portion of those numbers can probably be attributed to the audience for Vanessa's necessarily lengthy analysis of the OMM v. BOE case (the case materials were in excess of 300 pages).

And that's it for me tooting our horn. This weekend is the second Family Fun Day of the summer. I'm told the event was a regular feature a few years ago and is being revived. If you live in Orange County and don't want to go far for cheap or free family entertainment this summer, your choices are pretty good: Family Fun Day on the second Saturday of the month, back porch music at the Cedar Grove Crossroads on the third Friday and Last Fridays on, well, that's obvious.

This Family Fun Day includes:
• A scavenger hunt around town coordinated by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough.
• Two walking tours of downtown, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2 p.m.; there's a nominal cost.
• "Native American Day" at the Orange County Historical Museum.
• "Digging Into the Past" at the Burwell School.
• Wine tasting at Hillsborough Wine Company.
• "Pick a Pop" at Matthew's Chocolates.

For the full rundown, click here.

All quiet on the northern front
Week one of election filing season is almost gone, and while our neighbors to the south seem pretty active, we have one candidate for mayor and one candidate for two town board spots (both incumbents). You could look at this and say residents are pretty pleased with how things are going, but I'm going to give it a little more time before we conclude that.

Have a good weekend.