News in Orange, CT

The Orange Tractor Supply is inviting customers to attend a Pet Adoption Event on February 10, 2024 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The pet adoption event is open to the public and friendly, leashed pets. It will take place at Tractor Supply at 253 Indian River Road. 

On October 3, the Garden Club of Woodbridge hosted the Garden Club of Orange. Members of both clubs were excited to meet guest speaker, Tovah Martin. Tovah’s presentation, “Terrariums and You,” showcased terrariums in creative glass vessels, e.g., teacups and furniture pieces.

Entertainment Weekly Editor’s Choice Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles’ cocktail hour. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a lonely former child prodigy who writes questions for quiz

The Congregations of Orange Collaborative (COC) is seeking donations from their congregants to help Orange residents who are fuel insecure this winter. Please donate to the Orange Fuel Bank. Checks may be written to Treasurer, Town of Orange (in memo line put: fuel bank) and may be delivered or mail

Milford-State Rep. Kathy Kennedy, who is serving her third term in the Connecticut General Assembly representing the 119th House District covering portions of Orange and Milford, announced she plans to run for another term this November.Kennedy has built a reputation for her bipartisanship

Students at the Amity Middle School Orange banded together to say thank you to our veterans through our annual Stockings for Soldiers community outreach program. The students, staff, and families of AMSO sent in various toiletry and snack items that were put into stockings and delivered on Friday

Kelly Pritchard, resident of Orange, Connecticut, a member of the class of 2025 majoring in Aerospace Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense research project titled Eel Point Road Restoration and Resilience.

Space, the Final Frontier! How many of you were “Star Trekkers” who would follow Jean Luc Picard to the farthest parts of the universe? Powerful telescopes have turned that fiction into reality. The Friends of the Case Memorial Library invite you to journey through space via a Zoom program on

Which side are you on? That’s the question that every single person in Connecticut had to answer in 1775, as the thirteen colonies began a rebellion against British rule. Loyalty was not only a matter of words or opinion. For soldiers and civilians alike, loyalty could mean loss of fortune

Once again, the citizens of Orange have demonstrated their giving spirit during this past holiday season. The Friends of the Case Memorial Library installed our “Mitten Tree” in the library during the month of December and our generous knitters, crocheters, and shoppers decorated the tree

The Orange Scholarship Foundation Association is offering several scholarships to graduating seniors from Orange. Among them is the Ashlie Krakowski Memorial Scholarship of $5000. This scholarship is awarded to a student who intends to pursue a career in health care or a related health care field.

When the falling snowflakes tell you to grab a shovel, consider how easy it is to make the wrong moves and hurt yourself. Snow shoveling requires upper body strength and endurance. Warm up to any yard work by exercising your primary muscles that include biceps, deltoids, rotator cuff, forearm

While the rain was heavy and the wind was strong, the outpouring of support was tremendous. What seemed like only a trickle of cars compared to last year, the arrivals were steady. So many thanks to our wonderful volunteers.

Non-profits in the Town of Orange need venues to get word of our events out to the public. If you have somewhere in your establishment where we may put our information out for display, please let us know.You can contact me at 203-795-6564 or orangehistorical@yahoo.com.

The Garden Club of Orange’s annual holiday luncheon, The Silver Tea, was held on December 12, 2023. As part of the civic nature of the event, donations from members were collected for and then the amount matched through the Club’s general fund with a total of $400 donated to the Orange Community

The countdown to kickoff has begun! Football fans everywhere are coming together to watch one of the most highly anticipated games of the year. And of course, this beloved American tradition isn’t complete without a winning lineup of game day snacks and a few cold beers with friends and family.

Civil Air Patrol CT Minuteman Squadron CT-073 along with Girl Scout Troop 60274 participated in the nationwide Wreaths Across America on 12/16/2023. They laid over 30 wreaths on veteran's graves at the Orange Cemetery on Orange Center Road.

The Orange Lions Club will provide a limited number of mini-grants to eligible community organizations and/or individuals in 2024. The program is intended to provide funds to worthy causes and activities in the town of Orange that might not otherwise be funded.