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Seven students from Orange, Conn., will be going to college after the town's foundation awarded them $28,000 in scholarships, the Litchfield County Times reports.
The students are Joshua Kang, Luciana Dottori, Danielle D'Avignon, Anna Saccente, Caden Prokop, Lydia Bissenden, and Caroline Tirollo.
The Orange Foundation was established in 1976 to "receive contributions from local residents and to distribute the earnings from those donations to local recipients as scholarships and grants," according to its website.
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