How We hope You will Use This Website
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and we'll put your questions on the web.
Maybe someone has the answer and wants to share it.
If you already know all this stuff, go back to our HOME and enjoy the site.
ORANGETOWNGREEN.COM is a privately maintained website. We are not affiliated in any official way with the Town of Orange. We do present much municipal information in an attempt to provide a useful and interesting public service to Orange residents.
Orange has been around a long time, so there's a lot to know and to remember. More than 7,500 people live here and many more pass through every day, all of them interesting in one way or another. So there's a lot to see and a lot to talk about.
Think of this web site as a sort of conversation. You can send questions, your thoughts and opinions or information about events coming up. We try to answer the questions, publish the events and generally help everyone keep in touch a little better. We make an effort to provide local news updates, information about town government and links and internet tools and destinations in the area and beyond.
Orangetowngreen is also a resource. We find useful and interesting stuff - or you do - and we share it. You can do the same. There is a Community Calendar for you to let people know about upcoming events. The HELP Wanted page is free to anyone who has a job to offer.
The people we meet are interested in a lot of things, some near, some far away, so this site is full of links to many other places. They can be found on many pages around the site.
Yes, there are rules:
1. Relax
2. Enjoy
That's it. No more needed at this time. If you get lost, you can always back up and start over. No experimental animals will ever be harmed in the operation of this web site. No lives need be lost. We don't plan to start wars, steal anybody's stuff or take away your food. There's no trespass, because you are our visitors and guests. If you find fun and useful stuff here, that's good. If you know of some, tell us and we'll share it. If you see something you don't like, tell us about that too. Be advised that we think of all this as a relatively open conversation. E-mails and comments sent to orangetowngreen may be published on these pages.
What Is It?
Any New England town green is a place to meet, greet and gather to share a little of your time with others. So is this web site.
The real thing is better. The real thing has sunrise and sunset, shade trees, benches and people. It has fresh air and music and people who come and go. Everybody owns it and everyone is free to use them.
Orangetowngreen.com is none of those things -- except it is pretty much free. And you can visit anytime, day or night. OTG is, though, a place to come seeking information - or to leave some behind. We happily publish notices about your club or group or organization's upcoming events.
You can come and go. Stay as long as you like. You can send messages - just as you might post something on that message board at the store. We'd like to be your home page if you'll have us. You will see that from the top of Our home page, you can quickly click to world news, weather, movies, sports, lotteries and some other stuff.
What Is It Not?
Orangetowngreen.com is most assuredly NOT a platform for mean-spirited vituperative, pejorative or ad hominem attacks on any one or any issue. We aim to inform and when that means airing differing opinions, we will accept, and consider posting, reasoned points of view on important events.
Who Does It?
Orangetowngreen and petershamcommon.com are Roy Nilson's idea. He and others gather the information or you send it here. We take most, but not all of the pictures. Eight years ago, Roy thought the Internet could be used to supply local information to local people. Ponderous organizations like governments, corporations and universities use the web, why not communities and small towns? It has turned out that way. Many just plain folks put their thoughts on personal web sites for all to see.
We don't have any angle. It's not a political thing. It's just about the places in which we live.
And yes, we do sell advertising. It helps pay the bills. The people who pay for this work - who support us with their advertising - want you to know about their goods and services. They are local merchants, many of whom have been around a long time and some of whom are just starting to work hard at their good ideas. Let them know that you saw them here if you like. We'd appreciate and so would they.
How did it happen?
The internet is sort of an accident. People like Ken Olson and Gordon Bell let it happen as they built their computer company. Thanks, Ken. Kevin Mitnick used it to poke holes. Louis Monier and others figured out that the rest of us were struggling to find our way around and they built search engines to help us out. People use the internet to find information, sell stuff and stay in touch. On balance, that's a pretty good thing. But remember, nobody planned the whole thing, so there are occasional surprises. From Orange Town Green, you'll see, you can travel great distances, find interesting sources of information and when you want to do so, come right back home and see what's going on.
How Does the Internet and Orangetowngreen.com Work?
Think of the biggest book ever. It has a cover page (home page) and, like other books, it can have Chapter Headings and of course individual pages. It needs an Index. You don't have to start at Page One, though. You can flip through the pages (navigate) by clicking links. You can stick in bookmarks and come back later on. You can read for a little while or stay for an hour. You won't like every chapter. You'll like some a lot. There's no end to the variety of information you might find here. Serious, useful, it comes in all the colors of the rainbow.
Charting Our Waters
Start at the top and scroll down until you find something to click on or get to the bottom. The information in orange town green is located in many places - in our web site and in other people's web sites. If you are visiting the town hall page, you may find a link to our ToolBox of interesting links - that's to say you can hop back and forth inside our pages.
There's going to be a local e-mail directory and a business and services directory. If you want to be included in either one, say so. If not, that's OK too. Links that our advertisers paid for take you to information about what they have to sell.
My Computer Got Stuck and I am SO frustrated.
Don't take it out on the kids or the dog. Shut the damn thing off and go for a walk. Or go back to the top of this page and read Rules No. 1 and 2. One of these days we'll find a way to set up a computer discussion group or a class or something. Remember, millions of people do this every day. It just can't be that hard.
Who Owns All This Stuff Anyway?
The www.Orangetowngreen.com website is Copyrighted 2002 by IDaxys, Inc., a Massachusetts Corporation. The content of this website (except for logos and trademarks of others used on this site to signify an affiliate merchant or other advertising relationship) is the property of IDaxys, Inc. and is intended for use as a free information and entertainment service to individual visitors to our website. No portion of the content of this website may be reproduced for commercial use except by express written permission from the officers and directors of IDaxys, Inc.
Here's our Privacy statement
We don't tell anybody anything. If you send us your e-mail address, we'll put it in our directory of such things. If you don't want us to do that, let us know and we won't. Sometimes, when we launch a new feature, you might get mail from us. If that's NOT OK, tell us and we will stop. But we won't share your e-mail or any other information with anyone else - no Junk Mail.
NOTE: We recently discovered a way to link to on-line shopping for major brands. Many of these sites offer discounts and special pricing. PC thinks this is a convenient service. You can get the news, weather and lottery numbers here. You can Shop At Home and you can find out at least a little bit about what's going on here.