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Jennifer Kertanis of Granby is excited. As director of the Farmington Valley Health Department, Kertanis leads a team that in 2022 conducted a Community Health Assessment (CHA) among the 10 towns that her agency serves and has now released the agency’s first Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).
When in 1986 the Moffa family moved to Granby, young Fred Moffa took the Welcome to Granby sign seriously. While college and graduate school would claim him temporarily, Granby would remain his home, and he has clearly made his mark here.
A sequel is considered better than the original when it builds on its audience’s existing knowledge and takes it to the next level.
Albert Einstein famously said that “the person with dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.” Clearly, Einstein never encountered Kristin Masini and her daughter Robin Tooker, who in 2022 combined their factual knowledge to make a dream come true on the Granby/Simsbury town line.
It’s not every day that a girl from a small town in rural Nebraska, population 400, grows up to be director of finance and operations in a Connecticut town more than 1,500 miles away.
He’s known as “John the Englishman” by frequenters of Starbucks. But behind John Myers’ British accent lies curiosity, intelligence, skill, creativity, humor and above all, gratitude for a second chance at what by any measure is a life well lived.
In the village of Weatogue, in Simsbury, magic happens inside a building that was once a golf clubhouse.
Some things are just meant to be.
On Easter Sunday, Ashley Forbes and Branden LeBlanc of Windsor Locks came to Granby hoping to buy their dream home. After looking at the house and making an offer, they stopped at Icy Rolls at 10 Hartford Ave., one of their favorite spots in town.
After 95 years of life, Moe Bressard has gathered a boatload of memories, and he is happy to share them with his friends and neighbors in Granby, where he spent 43 of those years.
While the origin of the proverb “It takes a village” is unknown, the importance of volunteerism, of neighbors helping neighbors and of giving back to our communities, has long been a valued staple of American life.