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ORANGE — It’s a whole new world for the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School theater program as it puts on its first-ever fall production later this month.The program, which typically has only a spring play, will hold five performances of the Disney...

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ORANGE — The Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s athletics program is running out of time to replace its playing surface and track lanes.The rubber-and-sand mixture making up the turf and the track at the James S. Woodward Athletic Complex has another...

Mahar hosting Homecoming WeekendORANGE — Homecoming Weekend at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange is set for Oct. 17 through Oct. 19.The first event is a program will be held in the Kermit Cook Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, when the...

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ORANGE — Trying to please a cynical restaurant critic might seem like a daunting task. But how about 1,200 growing young people? That’s the daily reality for Katrina Bressani, the new food service director for the Ralph C. Mahar Regional and Union 73...

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ORANGE — With the start of the academic year, Ralph C. Mahar Regional School will offer paid internships that certify students to work in the wastewater industry.Elizabeth Zielinski, entering her fifth year as superintendent of the Ralph C. Mahar...

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ORANGE — Seated at the 10-yard line of the James S. Woodward Athletic Complex, the members of Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s perhaps smallest-ever class crossed into a different end zone of sorts on Friday evening.Fifty-six graduates moved their...

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ORANGE — It appears Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps will participate in competitions with an air rifle aspect next year, though the program’s instructors are still waiting on air tanks, targets and other...

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ORANGE — For the first time in history, a special education teacher was chosen as the winner of the Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award for Ralph C. Mahar Regional School.Melissa Campbell said she was in her classroom a few weeks ago when the...

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ORANGE — The Mahar School Committee voted this month to name the football field concession stand after longtime varsity girls basketball coach and Booster Club member Larry Fisher.Booster Club President Charles “Joey” Verheyen approached the committee...

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Recommended cross-training activities for wrestlers include swimming, mountain biking and flipping tires. But John Speek’s grapplers have been known to spend the weekends leading up to their season raking leaves, stacking wood and moving heavy...

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ORANGE – If the Mahar School Committee votes in affirmative on Jan. 11, spectators at Senators football games next year might buy their hot dogs and candy at the Larry Fisher Snack Shack.Booster Club President Charles “Joey” Verhey approached the...

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ORANGE — Retired Lt. Col. Glenn Scott noticed a few snafus in one of Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps demonstrations on Thursday. But that’s not uncommon for a program barely 2½ months old.“I think it went...

Mahar holds homecomingORANGE — Homecoming weekend was held at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School from Oct. 5 to Oct. 7.The weekend’s first event was a program held in the Kermit Cook Auditorium on Oct. 5, when the Homecoming Royalty was introduced by...

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ORANGE — Town police and Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s administration are investigating a reported threat made against the school, though they do not believe students or staff are in any danger.According to a letter drafted by Principal Scott A....

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ORANGE — Two teenage boys were arrested after allegedly breaking into Ralph C. Mahar Regional School at approximately 1 a.m. on Friday and causing significant damage to a room.Police Chief James Sullivan said the investigation is ongoing and the...

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ORANGE — Seventy-six students with few memories of a pre-pandemic high school closed a challenging chapter of their lives Friday when they moved their tassels from right to left at Ralph C. Mahar Regional School’s graduation.The 2023 graduating class...

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ORANGE — For high school seniors, spring is a time of accomplishment — graduations, college acceptance letters, job offers ... and proms.But bad decisions can quickly turn joyous occasions into unforgettable tragedies.With this in mind, Ralph C. Mahar...

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ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School held one of its semiannual science fairs this week, with projects explaining everything from ice melt corrosion, to sleep’s effect on mood, to the impact of the meat and dairy industries.Chemistry teacher...

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ORANGE — It was in March 2020 when the western world was starting to feel the squeeze of COVID-19 and one of Laurie MacLeod’s family members suggested a Zoom pizza party.“And I said, ‘What’s Zoom?” she recalled Tuesday. MacLeod, like millions of...