Since 1973, Stony Hill Village has housed our neighbors. The residents of Stony Hill Village enjoy the convenience of living in the center of Granby, coupled with the privacy of their New England village-like cluster of homes set on a gentle slope leading from Salmon Brook Street up towards Granby’s public building complex.
This year, the Stony Hill Village Community Center got a welcome refresh and redesign! It was brightened with new light fixtures, tables, chairs, comfortable sofas, as well as fresh interior paint in a warm, bright color scheme that invites residents to linger and socialize. Carpentry updates, plants and new flooring complete the interior. The welcome installation of a dual mini-split system provides air-conditioning, making the space a welcome cooling center in the summer.
Normally calm and quiet Stony Hill Village Community Center enthusiastically turned out this week for New England’s own “Ray of Elvis” who visited residents to perform classic songs from the 50s and 60s. He played to a rapt, engaged, deeply appreciative audience! Ray Guillemette Jr., a resident of Chicopee, Mass., is a 10-time international award-winning Elvis tribute artist who has performed throughout North America as well as Belgium, France and Japan.
“Elvis” solicited song requests, and between songs the performer shared some of the facts he’s collected over the decades through his admiration for the artist.
The Community Center will receive a bit more exterior sprucing up this spring. And with luck and good care, it will provide the residents of Stony Hill Village with another half century of collective jig saw puzzle-making, conversation, holiday celebrations and community.
And who knows? Perhaps someday, the “King” will return.