Schley Grange Hall

Schley Grange Hall is located in the Schley (pronounced “sly”) Community, about 6 miles north of Hillsborough, NC. We are a chapter of the NC State Grange and National Grange organization, serving the local farm community.

• Orange County Sheriff Candidates Forum - The candidates for the position of Orange County Sheriff will be present at Schley Grange Hall April 17, 2018 from 7 - 9 PM. Candidates Charles Blackwood and Tony White are expected to be present and will take questions from the audience. Schley Grange Hall provides the meeting location as a community service and never endorses candidates. Click here for detailed driving directions (scroll down page).
• Dues are $20 per person per year. Please turn in your 2018 dues and bring in any new member applications you have.
• Breakfast -- Held at Schley Grange Hall, Saturday March 3, 2018. Thank each and every one who attended our breakfast. We hope you enjoyed the company as much as the food.
• The Schley Grange was honored to have Mr. Ryan Lavalley, MOT OTR/L Occupational Therapy Consultant for Orange County speak at our Feb. 13, 2018 meeting on topics of interest to the aging population, their care givers and others. Here is a brochure covering some of the many services they provide, and here is a fall prevention guide, reproduced with Mr. Lavalley's gracious permission. For help on all sorts of topics of interest to seniors, you can also call 919-968-2087. Email: agingtransitions@orangecountync.gov, web: http://www.orangecountync.gov/departments/aging.
• Meal Sign Up Sheet - Here is the sign-up sheet listing who is responsible each month for the meal for our meetings. Note that the first column is for 2017 and the second column is 2018!
• Music -Picking & Grinning Schedule: This event will take place each Thursday. Start at 7:00 PM with gospel music and then country & western music at 8:00. Finish at 9:00. Click here for detailed driving directions. Come out and fellowship, kickback and enjoy the music. Gospel Music will occupy the first hour, followed by Western Music the second hour. Free of charge, but donations are welcomed and encouraged to help pay the rental fee and expenses for drinks. Please see this link for a nice write-up about Picking & Grinning.
• Update on Internet Access in Rural Orange County: Here is a web accessable PDF file detailing the meeting mentioned below about improving high speed Internet access for rual Orange County. A locally cached version of the report is here.
• At our October 10, 2017 meeting, we discussed the future of high speed broadband (Internet) access in rural Orange County. Representatives from AT&T, CenturyLink, Spectrum and Verizon were present. Thanks to Bonnie Hauser, and Representative Graig Meyer for organizing this event. Grange members will meet at our regular 6:30 time slot for supper prior to the Rural Internet meeting.
• Bar-B-Que Chicken Supper - Schley Grange hosted a barbecue chicken supper on August 19, 2017. Thank you to everyone, members and the community, who turned out.
• July 4th Fish Fry- Schley Grange had our annual fish fry on July 4, 2017. We had a wonderful turnout in 2016 and had the same again for 2017. Thank you for joining us for lots of good food and comraderie. We began serving immediately after the Caldwell Fourth of July Parade. American Legion Post 452 hosted the flag ceremony.
• Schley Grange is now the largest affilliate in the State of North Carolina! Click here for a county-by-county break down of chapter sizes.