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ORANGE – The Selectboard voted unanimously on Wednesday to appoint Seth Kelley as a Planning Board alternate.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Who better to give a graduation pep talk than a former NFL cheerleader?

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ORANGE – An arrest has been made in connection with the fraudulent invoices that drained $338,000 from the town’s coffers in the summer of 2023.

By ANN REED

The familiar 41 North Main St. edifice overlooking the town center has good reason to “stand tall” in 2025. The Orange Historical Society, established in 1895 by eight determined townsfolk, will celebrate its 130th anniversary this year.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Sewer Commission voted unanimously this week to raise the sewer rate by 22.32% to adequately operate the wastewater treatment facility at 295 West Main St.

Indivisible North Quabbin has been meeting regularly in Memorial Park in Orange every Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. The purpose of these gatherings is to protest President Donald Trump’s budget cuts and his policies in general. Because there are so many budget cuts in numerous areas and so many assaults on our democracy, we have a highly mixed group of protesters with varied interests and concerns. We usually have between 95 and 100 people attending weekly, holding signs and discussing these issues. We have had as many as 300 attendees.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Orange Farmers Market is back at its old home, Butterfield Park.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Franklin County Community Meals Program’s Hope Against Hunger Auction is back on Saturday, May 24, for the 21st year of raising money to support its community meals and food pantry services.

By DOMENIC POLI

At least 200 students and staff members passed through the second-annual Mahar Makerfaire last week and its organizer was so encouraged by the feedback he plans to open the event to the public next year.

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The struggle to finalize a Ralph C. Mahar Regional School budget for fiscal year 2026 has spilled into Wendell, where Orange residents and school officials spoke at a Selectboard meeting to advocate for what they want the budget to reflect.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Sewer Commission continued its May 14 public hearing for two weeks to allow time for research into possible ways to avoid drastic rate hikes in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Two more North Quabbin area veterans became Quilts of Valor recipients following a ceremony at the Community Church of North Orange and Tully last week.

There is no doubt that Oct. 7 was brutal and demoralizing for the Israelis. What was especially shocking was that Palestinians finally fought back. It took them 75 years to retaliate, but they finally did. Before 1948, the land that is now called Israel was called Palestine, even when under various empires’ control. But after 500 Palestinian villages were massacred and 750,000 Palestinians were driven off their land and out of their homes by predominantly European-origin Zionist forces, it took the Palestinians (not Arab countries) 75 years to mount a serious retaliation. How dare they? Don’t they know their place? Didn’t the decades-long brutal occupation teach them anything?

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Neither snow nor rain nor heat kept letter carrier David L’Heureux from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. Only retirement could do that.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Department heads voiced frustration last week about potentially having to sustain 15% budget cuts as Orange once again grapples with financial woes.

By DOMENIC POLI

Stefan Maier decided to pull out all the stops in 1993.

NEW SALEM — A cleanup of the veterans memorial is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, May 9. The memorial is located in Veterans Park, between the 1794 Meetinghouse and the Town Hall Annex.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Wheeler Memorial Library’s Children’s Room has reopened to the public nearly 10 months after flooding caused by a contractor’s error and a rainstorm.

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ORANGE — Solar panels have been installed on Fisher Hill Elementary School’s roof, another step in a renovation project that began nearly five years ago.

High Honors: Carter Nicholas Archambault, Lailah Kristine Mahrie Belliveau, Joseph Edward Burke, Isla Elizabeth Burnham, Chance Marshall Butler, Bradley Joshua Coleman, Avarie Rose Comeau, David Lawrence Eadie, Robert John Farrow, Yara Adil Fawzi, Jaylah Loveasia-Anne Fisher, John (Jack) Paul Eugene Fitzgerald, Isabella Mae Kimball, Athalia Makaylee Laza, Aidan Japhet Lopez Cruz, Lysander Lopez-Baez, Alec Sawyer Mazarelli, Phoebe Ann Marie Merrill, Benjamin Phoenix Norwood, Amelia Winter Robichaud, Bentley Sanchez, Shane Kyle Thibault, Sofia Evgenievna Timchenko, Judah Brady Widtfeldt, Henry Bremner Wood Rogers, Mason Allen Rounds, Landon James Sheldon, Ashlynn Faith Terry-Simon and James Gregory Vallejos.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE – Ninety-eight children and adults stopped by Moore-Leland Library last week to interact with some animals they’re unlikely to encounter on an average day.