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By MIKE MAGEE

WENDELL — The Wendell Meetinghouse needs two actors who can play a man and a woman, mid-20s to 50, in a production of “Swamped,” a full-length play written and directed by Court Dorsey.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard chair has received numerous complaints from people who are unhappy the sidewalks outside their homes have not been cleared following snow and ice storms, and he used last week’s meeting to clarify that sidewalk clearing is not the municipality’s job.

By PATRICIA KATHERINE LARSON

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town is using grant money to task the Franklin Regional Council of Governments with conducting a slum and blight inventory to determine if Orange qualifies for Community Development Block Grant funding for infrastructure upgrades and other improvements.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Selectboard will look slightly different at this week’s meeting, as a write-in candidate unseated the vice chair during Monday’s annual town election.

NEW SALEM — Swift River School has kicked off sales for the 2025 Supermarket Sweep fundraiser.

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE – As advocates prepare to head to the State House for March 13’s Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) Advocacy Day, at least one local store has seen the community fill the gaps left by December’s 50%, at minimum, reduction to the program.

Staff Report

ORANGE – A man was airlifted to a hospital Friday morning following a head-on collision on Daniel Shays Highway.

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE — Police Chief James Sullivan announced Wednesday that an indictment has been issued in the fraud case that drained an estimated $338,000 from the town’s coffers, but he urged more patience as the investigation continues.

High Honors: Adalynn Marie Almeida, Carter Nicholas Archambault, Lailah Kristine Mahrie Belliveau, Bella Nicole Burnett, Bradley Joshua Coleman, Avarie Rose Comeau, David Lawrence Eadie, Robert John Farrow, Yara Adil Fawzi, John (Jack) Paul Eugene Fitzgerald, Athalia Makaylee Laza, Aidan Japhet Lopez Cruz, Lysander Lopez-Baez, Alec Sawyer Mazarelli, Jozette Anne Robinson, Bentley Sanchez, Shane Kyle Thibault, Sofia Evgenievna Timchenko and Judah Brady Widtfeldt.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School could save $125,208 in the fiscal year 2026 budget by cutting two full-time positions.

By DOMENIC POLI

Don’t talk to the American people until they’ve had their coffee.

Instead of planning for the ethnic cleansing of and proposed land grab of war-torn Gaza, President Donald Trump should be proposing a Marshall Plan for the wartime destruction in Gaza. Yes, Gaza needs to be rebuilt. America bears responsibility for supplying the weapons Israel used to destroy Gaza’s apartment buildings and homes and places of worship, along with its infrastructure, schools, and 11 colleges and universities.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Tempers flared at Town Hall on Wednesday and the woman serving as the Selectboard’s vice chair walked out of a meeting for the second time in almost two years.

ORANGE — Jeff Cole, president of the Orange Scholarship Fund, was recently presented with a $9,000 check from the Mahar 50+ Club, made up of alumni from Ralph C. Mahar Regional School classes that graduated at least 50 years ago, to be put toward the scholarship fund.

By RICK MARBLE

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — An elected committee responsible for the upkeep of the various veterans memorials in town has been invited to participate in the 2024 and 2025 rounds of grants from the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — Though her midwife told her to be prepared for a quick birth, Amy Clukey expected to make it to Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield from her home in Templeton in time to deliver her second child.