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LOCAL POSTAL CUSTOMER Presort Std. U.S. Postage Orange’s Most Read Newspaper | Circulation 12,000+ | Delivered to Orange and Milford Homes and Businesses PAID Permit #729 Shelton, CT The OrangeWhen there’s Times better writing, there’s better reading. Vol. 7 / Issue 13 www.TheOrangeTimes.com November 1, 2018 Orange Rotary Helps Upgrade Drone Camera The Orange Rotary Club donated funds to upgrade the camera on the Fire Marshal’s drone. Photo by Steve Cooper. The Orange Rotary Club recently donated funding to the town’s Fire Marshal’s The drone that the Fire Marshal’s Office purchased came with an “entry-level” camera unit that Office so it could acquire an upgraded camera for its department drone unit. The Fire had more limitations. The funding provided by Rotary allowed the department to purchase a more Marshal’s Office has been using a drone in its operations for tasks such as fire scene advanced camera unit that has significant clarity and zoom capabilities so more of a scene could be investigation, pre-emergency planning and fire inspections. captured, all while operating at a safe distance and height. By using a drone, scenes and building layouts can be better documented with still and The Fire Marshal’s Office drone has been requested by other area departments for emergency and video imagery at heights of up to 400 feet, covering a much larger area than could be fire investigation scenes, and this upgraded camera will provide more capability for neighboring done otherwise. At this altitude, areas can surveyed quickly and with significant detail. communities as well. In This Issue: Train Station Land Deal In Doubt By Brandon T. Bisceglia rezoning the land or developing it in any way and Management requesting the funds, he Orange’s bid to acquire a parcel of land from inconsistent with transit-oriented development. did mention that the property is zoned LI-2. the state that had been set aside for a now- “Rezoning the current TODD (transit- He also wrote that Orange “will continue to Special defunct train station has become a lot more oriented development district) to Light support the development of an Orange train complicated. Industrial or other designation that is station and promote the development of a Pull Out Section - At the heart of the snag is a Sept. 26 letter incompatible with transit would be contrary to TODD in and around the train station, but at from state Office of Policy and Management the purposes for which this grant funding was this time, the Town needs the State’s assistance Ask The Candidates Secretary Benjamin Barnes addressed to First made available, and I must insist that the town to keep this concept a reality.” Selectman Jim Zeoli outlining a number of commit not to such rezoning during the term The Board of Selectmen announced after additional restrictions around the use of the of the use restrictions,” the letter says. an hour-long executive session on the matter Ask The Candidates parcel. Technically, the land is already zoned light at its Oct. 10 meeting to empower Zeoli and See Page 15. Orange residents already voted industrial. When the Town Plan & Zoning Town Attorney Vincent Marino to continue overwhelmingly on Sept. 5 to give the town Commission created the TODD district negotiations with the state to see if an amicable the go-ahead to pursue the 8.09-acre property, regulations, it stipulated that the zone would resolution can be reached. known as 28 Salemme Lane. It seemed like a not go into effect unless it was “served by an The terms of the agreement, Zeoli said, Index: good deal for the town, with the state paying existing rail station or planned rail station.” “have changed dramatically from what was Arts ..................................8 Orange the full cost of the purchase. Though the state has expressed interest in told to myself and counsel attorney Marino and At the time, town administrators had a possible future station in Orange, there is that we presented to the residents of Orange.” Home and Garden .........12 presented the deal as allowing it to develop the currently no plan in place. “At this time,” he added, “we are in strong Lifestyle .........................10 land in any way it likes. The only condition In his letter, Barnes also wrote that any disagreement with what they are requesting.” Letters To The Editor .......5 was that the town maintain an easement for housing built on the property would have to The property is being sold by Orange Land the state for 25 years, in case the state should comply with state law requiring that 10 percent Development Holdings, LLC. Though the Obits ..............................30 revive plans to build a platform along the of all units be affordable. town is the buyer, it would not actually spend Op-Ed ..............................4 nearby Metro North Railroad tracks. Zeoli declined to comment for this story. any money on the parcel. The purchase is Politics ...........................23 In his letter, however, Barnes warns against But In a July 16 letter to the Office of Policy Continued on page 27. WE HAVE THE MARKET The Fall Market is Busy! Considering a Move? Call Your Home Town Experts! ON DEPOSIT! ON DEPOSIT! ON DEPOSIT! ON DEPOSIT! 572 Summit Drive, Orange 657 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Orange 243 High Plains Road, Orange 403 Prudden Lane, Orange 203-795-6000 Listed for $318,000 Listed for $364,900 Listed for $365,000 Listed for $479,900 Page 2 The Orange Times November 1, 2018 FFARMER’SARMER’S 100 Boston Post Road, Orange, CT 06477. 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We are not responsible for any typographical error. No Returns on Sale items. November 1, 2018 The Orange Times Page 3 Giving Back Rotary To Honor Orange Lions Welcome Hospitalized Veterans Continued Program Success By Roger Tausig By Marianne Miller programs under which clay-shaped hearts tested, too. Parents should welcome this With Veterans Day that it produces are furnished to numerous The Orange Lions testing and sign the form. About 80 percent upon us in just a few volunteer organizations who gather together Club Comedy Night of all learning is visual, and early detection of short weeks, Rotary to paint them using their own imagination was a fun and successful an eye problem benefits each child. To date, Club of Orange has and creativity. Individuals are inspired event. Thank you to the club has tested 376 students and has sent chosen to honor those to paint the hearts to include uplifting everyone who attended 35 referrals home with students. If a parent who have served and messages of hope to brighten veterans’ days. and to The Orange receives a referral for their child, an eye doctor sacrificed in a new Once painted, Hearts of Hope takes the Times readers who appointment and exam is recommended as and unique way. Over the past few years, painted hearts and glazes and fires them in called me. Your support soon as possible for further evaluation. This Don Lewis, one of our longtime Rotarians a kiln to preserve them. Once this process and kind words meant a great deal. Thank you program will continue through the fall with and a veteran himself, has organized a is completed, the finished clay hearts are to St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church and elementary students and then begin again in celebratory dinner for local veterans to give returned to the organization that painted the staff who were wonderful and helpful in January for preschoolers. them richly-deserved recognition for their them. That organization then delivers them facilitating changes that had to be made. The Lions Club’s senior Thanksgiving service to our country. This event has been in person to the recipients for whom they are The Orange Lions participated in dinner at High Plains Community Center well-attended and included a dignified and intended. They call this process “painting “Funtober” at the High Plains Community will be Sunday, Nov. 25. We will have a moving ceremony that was well-received by with a purpose,” and it has been embraced Center fairgrounds, which included “Trunk turkey dinner with all the fixings and pie.