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ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School will soon be more energy-efficient after securing $524,000 in grants.

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NEW SALEM — The torch has officially been passed at the New Salem and Wendell fire departments, with Matt O’Donnell replacing longtime Chief Joe Cuneo in the dual role on July 1.

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ORANGE — Summer and after-school programming appears to be in jeopardy after the U.S. Department of Education announced it is withholding certain funding, including 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants, for the 2025-2026 school year.

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ORANGE — Licenses, certificates and notifications coming out of Town Hall will no longer bear the name Nancy M. Blackmer, as the longtime public servant retired as town clerk on June 30.

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ORANGE - A local woman is the only Franklin County resident to have been named to the Class of 2025 Commonwealth Heroines, a distinction bestowed upon women who make outstanding contributions to their organizations and communities.

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ORANGE — Voters adopted a $28.4 million fiscal year 2026 budget on Wednesday following a trying and contentious three-night Annual Town Meeting.

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ORANGE — Annual Town Meeting was postponed again on Tuesday, this time so the Finance Committee could re-evaluate the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget.

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ORANGE — Voters flocked to the polls at 62 Cheney St. on Monday to have their say on a Proposition 2½ override.

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ORANGE — The town now owns the 1.06 acres at 16-36 West River St., the former site of an old cereal factory that three juveniles destroyed by arson three years ago.

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ORANGE — With a Proposition 2½ override vote coming to the ballot boxes on Monday, roughly 50 people gathered in Town Hall’s Ruth B. Smith Auditorium this week to voice their thoughts to the Selectboard on the budget proposal.

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ORANGE — With a Proposition 2½ override vote coming to the ballot boxes on Monday, roughly 50 people gathered in Town Hall’s Ruth B. Smith Auditorium this week to voice their thoughts to the Selectboard on the budget proposal.

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ORANGE — A suggestion to postpone a budget vote at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting until after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote at the ballot box caused some to speak against the idea, arguing that it was taking the decision out of voters’ hands.

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SPRINGFIELD — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 months of supervised release for stealing benefit payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and submitting a false Purple Heart application through his congressional representative.

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ORANGE — An Orange man is being held without bail after allegedly confessing to stabbing his girlfriend during an argument.

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ORANGE – The town administrator plans to suggest that voters at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting table a warrant article pertaining to the budget and revisit the matter after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote.

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ATHOL – A lifelong resident has invented a new shoe insert to help improve the lives of people like him, those with debilitating foot pain.

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

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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.

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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.

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WENDELL — The citizens group that formed in 2023 in opposition to a since-withdrawn proposal for a battery storage facility has filed a motion asking the Land Court to overturn the state Attorney General’s rejection of the group’s proposed bylaw.

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ATHOL – Anthony A. Brighenti, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and retired state Environmental Police officer who served many years on the Athol Selectboard and School Committee, died earlier this month. He was 80.