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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Inside/Out Dance Co., the youth performance company of The Dance Studio of Orange, will present a performance on Saturday featuring some pieces composed by student choreographers.The dance company’s second annual dance concert is set to...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The 2023 Annual Town Meeting will be called to order by Matthew Fortier.The town’s health agent ran uncontested for moderator and won with 164 votes in Monday’s election. He replaces Christopher Woodcock, who decided not to seek reelection to...

ORANGE — An initial presentation of the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 will be held in the school’s library at 6 p.m. on Thursday.Elizabeth Teahan-Zielinski, superintendent of the Ralph C. Mahar Regional...

By BELLA LEVAVI

After initial plans to renovate the basketball and tennis courts at Butterfield Park proved to be too expensive, the town has reined in its plans to stay within budget.The new plan focuses solely on tennis court upgrades. “We couldn’t afford to do...

Morning Dew Cultivars announces next round of incubator program ORANGE — Morning Dew Cultivars, an artisan garden and curing library, has announced the April iteration of its incubator program providing free technical training to aspiring cannabis...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — There are no contested races in Monday’s annual town election.Of the 15 municipal positions that are up for grabs, nine have candidates running — but there is no race in which the number of contestants outweighs the number of slots. Polls...

Orange Selectboard reappoints Lyman as memorial trustee ORANGE — The Selectboard earlier this month reappointed Paul Lyman as its designee for trustee of the soldiers’ memorial.Town Clerk Nancy Blackmer explained the trustees are supposed to be made...

ATHOL — Orange District Court Judge Laurie MacLeod set bail in the cases of three people who are being charged in connection with an assault in which two people were held against their will for four hours in a house in Athol, according the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — With the Selectboard’s vote to enter the Complete Neighborhoods Initiative, Montague has begun exploring prospective redevelopment of the Farren Care Center property.The Complete Neighborhoods Initiative, a regional project Montague entered...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Six North Quabbin residents face charges of kidnapping and other crimes as a result of an assault in which two people were reportedly held against their will for four hours in an Athol house on Feb. 1.Athol residents Franklin L. Payne, 46,...

Hunter Biden was at the top of his class at Yale Law and served as the editor of the Yale Law Review. He also studied international affairs and edited a cross-cultural journal while also at Yale. Biden was hired to help Burisma with corporate...

ATHOL — Five people are scheduled for arraignment in Orange District Court on Friday in connection with a violent assault in which two people were held against their will for four hours in a house in Athol, according to the Northwestern Assistant...

By DOMENIC POLI

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An Orange resident who engaged in online communication — often of a sexual nature — with someone he believed to be a 12-year-old girl has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.Cody J. Hansen, 38, pleaded guilty on Dec. 15,...

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As a forester with 50 years of experience, I found the article “Foresters, conservationists oppose Healey logging moratorium,” (Recorder, Jan. 28) interesting and also disturbing.The reason these “forestry battles” go on for decades is that the policy...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The California transplant who bought the North Quabbin region’s only Gilded Age mansion in July 2020 is at odds with her town over requirements to open the structure she is trying to bring back to its former glory.Cynthia Butler has expressed...

ORANGE — A water main break Wednesday morning at the Leisure Woods Mobile Home Park has been fixed, according to Colin Killay, Orange’s superintendent of highway, cemeteries and parks.The water main break off East River Street caused a major water...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Affected vehicles were quickly back on the road after a third-party hauler mistakenly filled an unleaded gasoline storage tank with diesel fuel at a Daniel Shays Highway gas station, and the incident and its ensuing headaches might soon be in...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Pizza Factory is changing ownership after 25 years in business.Paul Whitney purchased the eatery from Athanasios “Arthur” Vlahakis and his wife, Voulie, on Wednesday and opened for customers on Thursday afternoon.“I’m stoked,” Whitney said at...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — It might be “game over” for the arcade proposed for 5 East Main St., as the town’s administrative assistant considers the project to be abandoned after going months without hearing from the proprietor.Dave Gray told the Greenfield Recorder in...