The Arts

Chorale and Emerson Theater

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Chorale and Emerson Theater mark Civil War anniversary  Twelve Granby area residents will perform with the Farmington Valley Chorale, Ellen Gilson Voth, artistic director, in Farmington Valley’s Freedom Trail: A Choral Tribute, on May 1 and May 3. For this exciting event, the chorale will partner with the Emerson Theater Collaborative of Mystic, to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. The program will feature Harriet2 (Harriet Squared), two one-act plays about H […]

History

Remembering Our Granby Soldiers

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Remembering Our Granby SoldiersBy Karen Phillips Miller  I returned to my hometown of Granby, after being away for 39 years. Funny, it didn’t seem possible that I could have been gone that long, but I felt a yearning, a swell of homesickness that wouldn’t go away for months on end. So one day last year, I cancelled all my appointments, cleared my schedule completely, and got on an airplane in Jacksonville, Florida. Within a few hours, I was home again, in the town where I spent […]

School & Sports

Exploding the Moment

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Exploding the Moment: Innovative Literacy Programs at Wells Road School By Kim Becker While Granby Public Schools has made writing a key area of improvement District-wide, Wells Road Intermediate School has taken the directive to a new level. The fifth and sixth grade writing teachers, Cindy Garrey and Caroline Martin, in conjunction with Literacy Specialist Jen Kirk, created a slate of no- to low-cost programs to explore writing and literature. In February, the teachers hosted a Write N […]

The Arts

Peter Mulvey to perform in Granby

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Peter Mulvey to perform in Granby By Carole Bernard Listening to Peter Mulvey’s music draws you in and leaves you wanting more. His incredibly smooth and silky voice reaches into the depths of your soul and echo there, much like his songs did when he sang in Boston’s subways. A native of Milwaukee, Wis., Mulvey brings the well-grounded sensibility of America’s heartland together with musical skills honed in Dublin, Ireland, to create real magic. Throughout the years and h […]

School & Sports

Granbee Recap

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Champions: The Drones—Mark Neumann, Tom McGuire, Rich Accetura. GranBee gives phone app run for its money By Mary Munsell What’s the color of Spock’s blood? Who was the first U.S. President to adopt the informal version of his first name? What new republic adopted the motto “Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!”? Questions like these may remind you of a time you waited in the car for dance class to end, or sat on the bus on the way to school or work. Yet these que […]

School & Sports

Tender Care Child Care Name

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Apple Tree Children’s Centers in Connecticut are now Tender Care Learning Centers Apple Tree Children’s Centers announced that its five Connecticut locations will become Tender Care Learning Centers. Changing the Apple Tree name to Tender Care Learning Centers unites the sister companies that have been operating successfully as one company for many years. There are currently 18 Tender Care Learning Centers in the Pittsburgh area that have been operating successfully for more than 3 […]