Orange Town News

Vaughan Dumas, chief of the Orange Volunteer Fire Department, right, accepts a $1,000 check from the Regional Water Authority. “This is our way of giving back what we can,” said Nicoletta Blevins, government and community relations manager for the Regional Water Authority.

Orange Community Nursery School held is annual Friendship Food Drive during the month of February. Students from the 3 year old class delivered food to the food bank. Thank you to the families for a successful food drive!

Create your own gelli plate prints at this hands-on workshop guided by Librarian Rebecca Harlow. Gel plate printing is a beginner-friendly monoprinting technique that uses a reusable gel plate, water-based paints, and textures to create unique, one-of-a-kind prints on paper without a printing press.

Suzuki Music Schools has scheduled the next performance in its Children’s Cookie Concert Series for Saturday, March 14th, at 3:00 PM. The event will be held at 480 Racebrook Road, located within St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church.

Serena Giampa of Orange, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Campus, located in Madison, NJ, has been named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2025 semester.

Macie Salado of Orange was named to the College of the Holy Cross Fall 2025 Dean's List. A member of the Class of 2029, Salado was named to the Dean's List for outstanding academic achievement during the spring semester of the 2025-26 academic year.

Tufts University recently announced the dean's list for the fall 2025 semester. Dean's list honors at Tufts University require a semester grade point average of 3.4 or greater. The following students from Orange received honors

On February 2, 2026, six students from Orange Public Schools were honored by the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) at an awards ceremony recognizing excellence in the visual and performing arts. The music teachers, art teachers, and principals joined the honorees at the reception.

The Library will be closed on Monday, February 16 for Presidents' Day. The Library will reopen on Tuesday, February 17 at 10 a.m.

The University of Rhode Island is pleased to announce that several Orange students have been named to its Fall 2025 Dean's List. To be included on the Dean's List, full-time students must have completed 12 or more credits for letter grades which are GPA applicable

The Orange Scholarship Foundation Association is offering several scholarships to graduating seniors from Orange who attend public or private schools. In particular, the Ashlie Krakowski Memorial Scholarship is $5000 and is awarded to a student who intends to pursue a career in health care or a

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert (Bob) Drobish, who died peacefully on February 2, 2026, at the age of 90, surrounded by his loving wife and three children. He was born on January 16, 1936, in New Haven, Connecticut.