News in Orange, CT

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.

Children wore festive Goddard party hats and enjoyed a special visit from beloved characters Bluey and Olaf, who danced, sang and posed for photos.

Nico Young of Orange has been named to the Plymouth State University Dean's List for the Fall 2025 semester. To be named to the Dean's List, a student must achieve a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.69 for the Fall 2025 term, be a matriculated student with at least 12 credits, at least nine of

Western New England University (WNE) is proud to announce that Owen Hawes of Orange has been named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2025 semester. Hawes is one of nearly 800 students to achieve this mark of academic excellence. Students are named to the Dean's List for achieving a semester grade

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced its Dean's List for academic excellence for the Fall 2025 semester. The criteria for the WPI Dean's List differ from that of most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average (GPA). Instead, WPI students are named to the Dean's

The 2025-2026 Amity Academic Hall of Honor and Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony ceremony will take place on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The event will be held at Grassy Hill Country Club in Orange.

Orange Community Nursery School offers a 5 day readiness program for children who are not age eligible for kindergarten. Pictured are students in the 5 year old kindergarten readiness class working on letter recognition by building letters using shapes.

Macy Lyons, of Orange, was named to University of Bridgeport's Fall 2025 Dean's List. Lyons was among more than 325 students named to the Fall 2025 Dean's List.