Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 5:49PM Pat White reminds us that there are piles of sand available to Orange residents on Cardigan Mountain Road where it intersects with Tuttle Hill and Burnt Hill.
Spread it on your drive, and watch your step!
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 12:54PM Thanks to Pat Mercer for putting us on to this:
GAW.com joins Wavecomm, WildBlue and Fairpoint in offering broadband to Orange. GAW offers competitive prices. Your faithful webmaster has personally used the other three services (and we currently use WaveComm and Fairpoint); we haven't tried out GAW.
Like WaveComm, GAW uses wireless transmitters. It installs a small dish at your place, which needs to have line-of-sight access to a transmitter or repeater. WaveComm recently put a dish up on the Cardigan summit, and says it has plans to put repeaters around town for those who can't see the summit from their house.
Wildblue uses satellites, and installs a dish at your place. Fairpoint mails you a modem to hook up with a phone jack. It's the easiest, most trouble-free solution, but DSL isn't yet available to most of the town.
We haven't contacted GAW to ask what the Brattleboro-based company plans for our area.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 10:14AM Orange's latest trash and recycling statistics look impressive: From May 6 to the end of December, we residents recycled 21 percent of our trash.
More than 18 tons of zero-sort recycling got collected in the eight months since the service began. The town gets charged less for recycling--which means savings to us as well as less garbage taking up landfill space.
Sounds like a win-win.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 10:26AM We've just added a new photo album: high-resolution images of artist (and life-long Orangeite) Gary Hamel, depicting Orange history and wildlife. Enjoy!
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 10:24AM Bob and Sharon Proulx noticed that the Orange sign needed repair and new paint, they took it to have a cost estimate done. The sign maker said that it would be better to make a new sign, since it would cost almost the same as to repair the old one.
Bob went to the Select Board and asked if the Town would approve the money for a new sign. The Board did just that, and Bob had the sign made. Check it out on Cardigan Mountain Road. Be the first to take a picture and send it to us!
Thank you Bob and Sharon. You always have the benefit of the Town at heart.