Orange Town News

Dante Agnello, a Freshman Finance and Business Analytics major from Orange, has been named to the Le Moyne College Fall 2025 Dean's List. To make the list, students must achieve a GPA of 3.5 or above.

Congratulations to Amity Middle School Orange eighth grade students, Quinn Smith and Elizabeth Scates who are the recipients of this year’s Connecticut Association of Public Schools Superintendent (CAPSS) Awards.

St. Mary School invites prospective families to experience the difference a SMS education makes at our Pre-K through Grade 8 Open House on Tuesday, January 27, from 6:00–7:00 p.m.

Orange resident, Ellery Varholak, has been named to the President's List at James Madison University for the fall 2025 semester. Students who earn President's List honors must carry at least 12 graded credit hours and earn a GPA of 3.900 or above. Varholak is majoring in Middle Grades Education - BS

The following full-time student from Orange has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2025 semester at Western Connecticut State University: Zola Kneeland, Musical Theatre

Orange Community Women is excited to present “Amazing Animal Ambassadors” on Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 1:00 at High Plains Community Center. This event has been generously sponsored by the Orange Foundation.

It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) congratulates the following students from Orange on being named to the Fall 2025 President's List. The fall terms run from September to December.

The extended day 3s class at OCNS wishes our entire community a joyful and healthy start to 2026! We are so excited to be back in the classroom, ready for a new year filled with discovery, friendship, and hands-on learning. We look forward to all the milestones our students will reach in the coming

Owen Weaver, a Partner with the law firm Zabel Schellenberg, was recently elected to the Amity Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.Weaver currently serves as the Town Attorney for Orange. Since 2013, he has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers. In 2024, Weaver became a Fellow of the

Orange firefighters quickly extinguished a fire in a house Tuesday night at 516 New England Lane. The Orange Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched at just after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday for a house filled with smoke. First-arriving firefighters began looking for the source of the smoke, suspecting

Santa arrived in Orange this year on a fire truck, delivering gifts to a record number of children in town. “Santa’s Helper” has become a townwide tradition and big fund-raiser for the all-volunteer fire department. This year, there were seven Santas helping out, each one on a fire truck

Happy Holidays from Orange Communuty Nursery School! The 3’s class enjoyed a holiday pajama party as part of their holiday celebration.