Orange is hosting its annual holiday festival, with the lighted tractor parade and tree lighting on Saturday, Dec. 7 with an inclement weather date of Sunday, Dec. 8. Festivities will be on and around the Town Green beginning at 3 p.m.
Inside the Clark Building, visitors can guess how many candies are in the jar and vote on gingerbread houses.
Gingerbread house creations may be dropped off between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Prizes will be given to the winner of the gingerbread house contest; all entries must be picked up between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
The Case Memorial Library will be open from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Al DeCant will be performing in the meeting room from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The library staff will be handing out “take and make crafts” while supplies last and children can mail letters to Santa.
The Stone-Otis House will be open to visitors as well as the Academy Building, where the New Haven to Derby Line Model Railroad will have displays.
The Orange Congregational Church will be hosting a “Cookie Walk” where Christmas cookies will be available for sale in the church.
The lighted tractor parade will begin around 4:30 p.m. or 4:45 p.m. from Fred Wolfe Park and Santa will arrive at the end of the parade. The lighting of the tree will follow on the Town Green and there will be time for pictures with Santa.
The fairgrounds will be open with food trucks, and the lighted tractors will be there so people can view them up close. New Haven Pizza, Tex-Mex Fusion, Fork in the Road and Cookie 39 will be among the food trucks, as well as hotdogs, coffee and hot cocoa. For more information on the tractor parade, visit orangetractorparade.com.
The Orange Congregational Church will also hold a handbell and senior choir concert outside the church at the green on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 4 p.m.
