Preserving Orange History, One Document at a Time

With approval from the Board of Selectmen, Town Clerk Patrick O'Sullivan has applied for a grant that will be used to protect and preserve vital records at Town Hall.

The historic preservation grant comes from the state. In year's past, it has ranged from $2,500 to $7,000, and has been used to scan land records and maps.

This year the grant, the amount of which is based on population, would be $4,000, O'Sullivan says. That much money would enable him to preserve about 40,000 pages.