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Please join us in congratulating the following students for their outstanding academic excellence, exemplary citizenship, and remarkable perseverance. Their achievements have been recognized with prestigious awards from distinguished educational organizations
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Congregation Or Shalom will host a community blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross on July 15, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 205 Old Grassy Hill Road.To learn more or make an appointment to donate, visit redcrossblood.org.“The short amount of time it takes to donate can mean
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The University of Rhode Island is pleased to announce that several Orange students have been named to its Spring 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
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Obituary: Carolyn Contardi
Carolyn H. (Marcovich) Contardi, 74, of Orange passed away February 24, 2023. Born in Bridgeport, she was the daughter of the late Stephen and Helen (Buturla) Marcovich.
Obituary: Lucille Cassella
Lucille Cassella, 87, of Orange, passed away peacefully at her home on February 8, 2023. Born on July 12, 1935 in Meriden, CT, she lived life fully and on her own terms. She brought love and laughter to all who knew her. There was no greater friend or relative.
Case Memorial Library for March 2023
March Madness: Tournament of Chocolates - For teens in grades 7-12. Which candy is the champion of chocolate? Find out in our March Madness tournament of chocolates. Take home a kit with 16 different chocolate candies to taste and vote for your favorites in our online elimination tournament.
Book Sale Bonanza
The Friends of the Case Memorial Library will hold a Book Sale Bonanza on Saturday, March 25, 10:00am-3:00pm in the Library basement. A variety of books at bargain prices are ready to be snatched up.
Maplewood Senior Living Receives 2023 Best of Senior Living Award For 14 Communities
Maplewood Senior Living — one of the country’s leading senior living providers — is thrilled to announce that 14 of its communities across the US have just received the 2023 Best of Senior Living Awards, many for the sixth year in a row. The award was given by A Place for Mom, the premier online
Upcoming Activities at the Orange Senior Center from March 2023
Three individuals will be honored at the Living Treasure Award ceremony on May 18, 2023, from 5-8pm in the High Plains Community Center in Orange. Purchase tickets at the Community Services office.
Monthly Young Families Program at Temple Beth Sholom
Temple Beth Sholom in Hamden offers ongoing programs for families with young children to start a lifelong relationship with Judaism. Current members and those seeking a connection to a Jewish community are invited to share and explore these Jewish experiences together.
Orange Congregational Church for March 2023
Orange Congregational Church invites you to join us for worship Sundays at 10 a.m. in our Sanctuary on the corner of 205 Meeting House Lane and Orange Center Road, and livestreamed to our “Orange Congregational Church, UCC” YouTube page.
Congregation Or Shalom Reaches Out
Driving by Congregation Or Shalom in Orange, one cannot help but notice the synagogue’s banner and motto, “Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open Doors.” In fact, Rabbi Wainhaus, spiritual leader of the congregation, often includes those words in his sermons. As he puts it, “Our motto represents the message
Proprioception: The 6th Sense of the Body
Balance is a complex thing in life, but in the body it takes on a whole different meaning. Internally, we have to balance our heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, breathing, and digestion. The most critical thing to balance our body functionally is something most people don’t even sense.
Amity Board of Education News: Unexpended Funds, Student Awards, Budget, More
Application of Unexpended Funds: The Amity Board of Education made its decision on how to apply the unexpended funds from the 2021-2022 budget. Board members debated the interpretation of C.G.S. 10-51(c), which reads, “The board shall use any budget appropriation which has not been expended by th
Amity Region 5 High School Students Preserve Hundreds of Photos for Hurricane Victims
Amity High School photography students have been involved in q community service photography project that has drawn national attention. The project involves using state-of- the- art technology they learned in school to preserve photos from Hurricane Ian (Florida) victims.The project was conceptuali
Bullard-Havens Tech High School Students Share Heartwarming Messages with Orange Rehab Residents
The freshmen students in Deborah Boughton’s English classes at Bullard-Havens Technical High School in Bridgeport made beautiful holiday cards for every resident at Orange Rehabilitation and Health Care Center on the Boston Post Road in Orange, CT. In the spirit of the season, Ms. Boughton is seen
The Gift of Time: Orange Community Nursery School’s Kindergarten Readiness 5 year old Program
As preschool teachers at Orange Community Nursery School we are acutely aware that our students learn best in a playful environment. OCNS (located at the High Plains Community Center) has traditionally been a play-based program and has been working with families in Orange for the past 66 years. Ba
