As the Town of Orange holds its “Summer of Celebration” for the Bicentennial Year, the Orange Town News w ...
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“The Weeklings” Featured for the Town of Orange Bicentennial Concert & Fireworks Show
|“The Weeklings” Featured for the Town of Orange Bicentennial Concert & Fireworks Show
As the Town of Orange holds its “Summer of Celebration” for the Bicentennial Year, the Orange Town News will be producing a Bicentennial Concert and Fireworks Show. The show will be featuring “The Wee ...
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Founding Day Events Coming Up
|Founding Day Events Coming Up
Ceremony Kicks Off Bicentennial The town will observe the 200th anniversary of its founding with a Foundi ...
Ceremony Kicks Off Bicentennial The town will observe the 200th anniversary of its founding with a Founding Day ceremony on Saturday, May 28, at 10 a.m. at the High Plains gazebo, with state and local ...
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Amity High School Students Stage Mock Fatal Car Crash
|Amity High School Students Stage Mock Fatal Car Crash
Amity High School’s SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) club staged a mock fatal car crash with ...
Amity High School’s SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) club staged a mock fatal car crash with students acting out the parts of victims of a drunk driving crash. It was a powerful visual r ...
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Political Fault Lines Emerge at Budget Hearing
|Political Fault Lines Emerge at Budget Hearing
Cultural and political divisions over race and sex education at Amity schools overshadowed the question-a ...
Cultural and political divisions over race and sex education at Amity schools overshadowed the question-and comments portion of the Orange budget hearing April 21 at the High Plains cafeteria. In fac ...
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Amity Athletics Celebrates Its Alumni
|Amity Athletics Celebrates Its Alumni
Life’s ups and downs, its challenges but also its lighthearted moments were front and center as a new gro ...
Life’s ups and downs, its challenges but also its lighthearted moments were front and center as a new group of successful Amity alumni were inducted into the Amity Athletic Hall of Fame and the Hall o ...
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Orange Schools Slowly and Intentionally Return to Normalcy
|Orange Schools Slowly and Intentionally Return to Normalcy
Orange Schools are slowly looking a bit more like they did pre-COVID in a variety of ways. On February 2 ...
Orange Schools are slowly looking a bit more like they did pre-COVID in a variety of ways. On February 28, Orange Schools made mask-wearing optional for students, staff and visitors. “The transition ...
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Planners To Work on Affordable Housing Plan
|Planners To Work on Affordable Housing Plan
The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCROG) has submitted a draft affordable housing plan t ...
The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCROG) has submitted a draft affordable housing plan to the Orange Plan and Zoning Commission for its review. Zoning Enforcement Officer Jack Demirj ...
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Vote May 3 – Amity Budget Referendum
|Vote May 3 – Amity Budget Referendum
Facts to Consider regarding the Amity Budget Request Student Enrollment and Staffing: Student enrollment ...
Facts to Consider regarding the Amity Budget Request Student Enrollment and Staffing: Student enrollment at Amity has in fact dropped by 425 students since 2009 - 2010. Despite this fact staff has inc ...
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Amity Referendum Set for May 3
|Amity Referendum Set for May 3
People who have questions about the Amity budget for the 2022-23 school year can follow the presentation ...
People who have questions about the Amity budget for the 2022-23 school year can follow the presentation at the District Annual Meeting on Monday, May 2, at 5:30 p.m. in the presentation room at the D ...
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Orange Firefighters Ran Record Number of Calls During 2021
|Orange Firefighters Ran Record Number of Calls During 2021
Fire Department Recognizes Service Anniversaries, Looks to The Future The Connecticut General Assembly re ...
Fire Department Recognizes Service Anniversaries, Looks to The Future The Connecticut General Assembly recognized the work of three Orange Volunteer Fire Department members who have given a total of 1 ...
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Telecommunications in Orange…
|Telecommunications in Orange…
This is the History Corner, right? So, you may be wondering about the title…well, just sit back and see ...
This is the History Corner, right? So, you may be wondering about the title…well, just sit back and see just what the title means. The word telecommunication is a compound of Greek and Latin with “t ...
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OVNA Nurses Bring the Care Into The Home
|OVNA Nurses Bring the Care Into The Home
After John McCarthy of Orange had ankle surgery last year, he couldn’t put weight on his foot for a long ...
After John McCarthy of Orange had ankle surgery last year, he couldn’t put weight on his foot for a long time. He couldn’t drive; he couldn’t get up and down the stairs of his house. That’s when the ...
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Playground Project Moves Forward
|Playground Project Moves Forward
The Board of Selectmen gave the green light for the Playground Committee to move ahead with its plans for ...
The Board of Selectmen gave the green light for the Playground Committee to move ahead with its plans for an all-inclusive playground at Fred Wolfe Park. “Our goal is to create a destination playgrou ...
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Bicentennial Committee Has Us Booked for The Summer
|Bicentennial Committee Has Us Booked for The Summer
There are so many ways a town like Orange can mark its 200th birthday that the group planning this milest ...
There are so many ways a town like Orange can mark its 200th birthday that the group planning this milestone has scheduled a whole season – the Bicentennial Summer Celebration – to give it its full du ...
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Cost of Surplus, Amity Budget Update, & Voting Awareness
|Cost of Surplus, Amity Budget Update, & Voting Awareness
Responding to Taxpayer’s Questions The feedback from the prior two articles in the Orange Town News has b ...
Responding to Taxpayer’s Questions The feedback from the prior two articles in the Orange Town News has been extensive. People have numerous questions & seem to be connecting to the topic of budg ...
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Orange Firefighters Train for Ice Rescue
|Orange Firefighters Train for Ice Rescue
Winter Increases the Danger of Cold-Water Drowning and Orange Firefighters Will Be Ready Orange firefight ...
Winter Increases the Danger of Cold-Water Drowning and Orange Firefighters Will Be Ready Orange firefighters spent their weekend honing their skills at pulling drowning victims out of icy ponds and st ...
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History Corner: Growing Up in the Bronx…
|History Corner: Growing Up in the Bronx…
We had wonderful neighbors while I was growing up on Garrison Ave. in the Bronx. Rabbi and Mrs. Steinber ...
We had wonderful neighbors while I was growing up on Garrison Ave. in the Bronx. Rabbi and Mrs. Steinberg lived on the 3rd floor of our building and the Goldberg’s lived next door. Rabbi was an inva ...
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Zoners Schedule Hearings on Accessory Buildings
|Zoners Schedule Hearings on Accessory Buildings
The Orange Plan and Zoning Commission has scheduled public hearings as it is faced with the question whet ...
The Orange Plan and Zoning Commission has scheduled public hearings as it is faced with the question whether or not to allow detached accessory buildings on single family lots. The hearings will be h ...
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PJ Shanley to Join the Board of Selectmen
|PJ Shanley to Join the Board of Selectmen
First Selectman Jim Zeoli last week appointed former Board of Finance member PJ Shanley to serve on the B ...
First Selectman Jim Zeoli last week appointed former Board of Finance member PJ Shanley to serve on the Board of Selectmen. The appointment comes after the surprise resignation of recently elected Co ...
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Proposed Amity FY 22-23 Budget Would Significantly Impact Taxes
|Proposed Amity FY 22-23 Budget Would Significantly Impact Taxes
Orange BOF Supports up to 0.41% Increase, Ultimately Taxpayers Will Decide on Budget to Support by Jim Le ...
Orange BOF Supports up to 0.41% Increase, Ultimately Taxpayers Will Decide on Budget to Support by Jim Leahy, Vice-Chairman, Orange Board of Finance On January 24, the Orange Board of Finance (OBOF) m ...