Events

VPS Silent Auction

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Valley Pre-School will host a silent auction fundraiser on Saturday, April 25, 7-9:30 p.m. at Lost Acres Vineyard, featuring great deals on auction items including Disney Theme Park passes, children’s classes and activities, personal training and gym memberships, restaurant gift cards, summer camps, sports tickets and merchandise and beauty service. Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door and include a chance to win one of the door prizes. Proceeds will benefit Valley Pre-School, wi […]

Events

Farmington Valley VNA

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VNA Events Blood Pressure Screenings The Farmington Valley VNA’s free blood pressure screenings are available without appointment Tuesday, April 7, 9–10:30 a.m. at the Farmington Valley YMCA; Monday, April 6, 10:30–11:30 a.m. at East Hartland Town Hall, and 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at East Granby Community Center; and Thursdays, April 9, 16, 23 and 30, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at Granby Senior Center. Ready To Jump Into Spring Shake off those winter blues and get ready for […]

Events

Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Civil War Book Event The Salmon Brook Historical Society presents Dr. Lesley Gordon, author of A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, at the Senior Center, 15 N. Granby Road Tickets available at the door: members $3, non-members $5, students $2. Light refreshments included.  Gordon, a graduate of East Granby High School, will talk about her recently published book on the 16th Connecticut Regiment, which fought at Antietam. The soldiers in t […]

Events

Granby Camera Club

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The Granby Camera Club will meet on Monday, April 6 at 7 p.m. at the Granby Senior Center. The program for the evening will feature photographer Michael Zide (www.michaelzide.com). To learn more about the club visit: www.GranbyCameraClub.com.       […]

Events

Cossitt Events

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The Irish Built It! The Friends of Cossitt Library invite you (Irish or not) to attend Paddy On The Railway: Irish Labourers And The Building Of The Great Western Railroad presented by popular speaker Dennis Picard, director of Storrowton Village, on Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Picard has presented several historic programs, in costume, at Cossitt to enthusiastic listeners. In Time For Mother’s Day The Friends invite children, ages 10 and up, accompanied by an adult, to a Mother’ […]

Events

Civic Club

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Farm in Granby Center? Come to the Civic Club on Thursday, April 16 and hear about the 50 acres farm in the center of Granby. Kate Bogli, along with husband Jason and four children own and operate Maple View Farm located almost in the center of Granby. Kate and family are the fourth generation family to own and operate the farm since 1950 when Jason’s grandparents moved to Granby. The farm is home to horses, cows, goats, pigs and chickens in addition to the farmers who have lived and work […]

Events

4-H Breakfast

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4-H Pancake Breakfast  Come join us for Granby 4-H’s annual pancake breakfast. On Saturday, April 25 from 7–10:30 a.m. at the South Congregational Church of Granby, 4-H’ers will provide breakfast specialties, as well as having 4-H items and additional baked goods for sale to the public. Cost for seniors and children ages 3-12 is $6; adults, $8; no charge for children under 3. Come support a club that strives to better the community and empower […]

Fun & Rec

GAA host Art Fun Day

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Granby Artists Association to host Hands-On Art Fun Day By Robin Sidwell On Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., family members—young and old—are invited to try their hands at a variety of art forms with members of the Granby Artists Association. Members will demonstrate their talent and techniques, and guide participants to work with spin art, watercolor, painting a Mother’s Day bouquet, casting a fishy creation, composing good photographs, adding to a wall sized mural, […]

People

Spring Allergies

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April Showers Bring Spring Allergies! After what seemed to be a never-ending winter, the sights, sounds and smells of spring are finally here! Birds are singing, gas and charcoal grills are being fired up, lawn mowers are running, and everywhere people are coughing, sneezing, and wheezing. Every spring, the smells of freshly cut grass, blossoming trees and blooming flowers send more than 50 million Americans to the doctor in search of relief from seasonal allergies. Itchy eyes, scratchy throat […]

The Arts

FV Chorale 

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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 […]