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🌱 What Mahar’s new contracts mean for staff and schools in Orange

Orange, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • What Mahar’s new contracts mean for staff and schools in Orange
  • Details on the June 17 house fire on Oaklawn Avenue
  • When and where you can get free community meals in Orange

Also on today's calendar: Orange RiverFest: Glowing Boats, Firelight, and Riverfront Creativity and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: Why don't eggs tell Jokes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: A little morning rain, with a high of 76 and low of 56 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 81, low: 52.
  • Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 81 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Mahar's educational support professionals, superintendent secure new three-year contracts (recorder.com) — New three-year contracts for Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District’s superintendent and educational support professionals, based in Orange, will take effect July 1 and run through June 2029. The agreements spell out pay, sick time, vacation, and working conditions for non-teaching staff, while detailing Superintendent Elizabeth Zielinski’s salary increases, benefits, and performance expectations that shape how local schools are managed.
   

• Orange house fire leaves one injured, family with five children safely escapes (shrewsburypost.com) — A June 17 house fire on Oaklawn Avenue in Orange left one person with minor injuries and forced a family with five children from their now-uninhabitable home. Firefighters quickly contained the accidental blaze to a second-floor bedroom, rescued one of two missing cats, and credited the children’s fast actions and 911 call for limiting damage while the Red Cross assists the family.
   

• Franklin County Community Meals Program back serving Greenfield meals (atholdailynews.com) — Free community meals are continuing in Orange on Mondays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, even as Franklin County Community Meals Program just restarted service in Greenfield after a brief pause. The organization has stabilized its finances, trained staff, and is now serving hundreds of hot meals weekly across Greenfield, Turners Falls, and Orange for residents needing reliable food support.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Tuesday June 23
  • Silly Goose Story Time
    Athol Public Library 568 Main St, Athol, MA, 01331, US
    10:30 am
  • VOC's Teen Dungeons and Dragons Club →
    Athol Public Library, 568 Main St, Athol
    3:30 pm
  • Summer Kickoff
    Athol Public Library 568 Main St, Athol, MA, 01331, US
    4:00 pm
  • Athol Historical Commission meeting
    Athol Public Library 568 Main St, Athol, MA, 01331, US
    5:45 pm

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💬 Chatter

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  • CROSSMARK posted a job opening for (Immediate Hire) Retail Merchandiser in Orange. Apply here.
  • Spectrum posted a job opening for Retail Sales Specialist in Orange. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Orange here.

🗞 Nearby News

Athol

  • Athol resident's discovery leads to publication of historic poverty memoir (atholdailynews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: They might crack up... (Thank you Cat R. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Orange

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