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A welcome spring sight
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An eastern phoebe strikes a beautiful pose of its own on the Granby Land Trust’s Katan-Ensor Preserve.
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Robert Carter Painting adds color to the Granby landscape
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For over 30 years, Granby resident Robert Carter has delivered exterior and interior painting services to the residents of Granby and surrounding areas. His business is known as Robert Carter Painting.
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“Stickin’ around” at Katan-Ensor Preserve
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A North American porcupine on the Granby Land Trust’s Katan-Ensor Preserve greets a visitor by sticking out his tongue.
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Luminaria evening culminates a One Year Stronger commemoration
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Beautiful luminaria, each with heartfelt reflections of remembrance marking one year of the pandemic, lit the sky above the McLean courtyard on the evening of April 5.
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Engagement Announced
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Norman Laverdiere and Jeanne Swanke of North Granby, announce the engagement of their daughter Kristie Jeanne Laverdiere to Wesley Thomas Gomez, son of Thomas and Tina Gomez of Canaan.
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Granby Community Garden is looking for gardeners
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Spring is coming, and with it all the joys of gardening. If you love to garden, but don’t have a sunny garden spot, the Granby Community Garden might be just the place for you.
Great Outdoors
Bee a Hero for Mother Nature
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, three-quarters of the world’s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. Climate change, habitat loss, intensive farming, and pesticides are all major contributors to losses of both native insect pollinators and commercially managed honeybee colonies in the United States.
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Wood ducks and Canada geese…
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seen on Creamer Pond near the newly installed Wood Duck nest box at the Granby Land Trust’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve.
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Cumberland Farms opens new East Granby store
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Cumberland Farms opened a new location at 62 Rainbow Road in East Granby on March 12. The new location is the latest store to feature the company’s innovative design, equipment and food offerings that are meant to enhance the customer experience and compete with limited-service, fast-casual restaurants.
Foxfield F.A.R.M. Foundation
Regan provides testimony on H.B. 6626
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On March 18, Susan Patricelli Regan, president of Foxfield F.A.R.M. Foundation gave testimony to the Connecticut Real Estate and Insurance Committee on House Bill 6626, lines 71-84, which references “An act requiring insurance coverage for equine therapy for Veterans suffering from PTSD” (originally S.B. 498 proposed by Senator John A. Kissel, CT District 7).