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Contract Settlement for Teachers; The pitfalls of presentism: learning from the past, preparing for the future; and Dear People of the Great State of Connecticut,
Check Town of Granby website or call Town Manager’s office to verify date, time, location, and get information on how to participate on Zoom, if needed.
Dear fellow residents of Granby. The time has come for everyone to stand up for all that this town offers: open spaces, scenic rivers and streams, a park, lands for agricultural products, professional services, and lots of good restaurants, just to name a few.
Connecticut will debut early voting at the end of March, for four days, for the Presidential Preference Primary. The legislature made a special exception to consecutive days this year to avoid Good Friday and Easter Sunday, so the days are March 26, 27, 28 and 30.
The following are highlights from recent commission and committee meeting minutes. To read the full reports, please visit the Town of Granby website, choose Agendas and Minutes and choose the board or committee.
Highlights from the meetings held on January 3rd and January 17th, 2024
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has established a Greater Together Community Fund for each of the 29 towns in the Greater Hartford region, which includes Granby. The Hartford Foundation has since provided each Community Fund with $180,000, with $70,000 being maintained in the Funds’ endowments and the remaining $110,000 to support current grantmaking efforts.
Highlights from the meeting held on January 8th, 2024
The Granby Board of Education is pleased to welcome a new member who is a familiar face to the school community. Karen Richmond-Godard, a former Granby Memorial High School teacher, will fill the remaining two years of a four-year term vacated by Whitney Sanzo.
The collection of all donations for the Friends of Granby Public Library’s sale will ONLY take place at Holcomb Farm on Mondays and Wednesdays in June. Book sale donations will not be accepted at the library.
As you talk to your neighbors about their gardens this summer, don’t be surprised if a number of them say they got their start at the Friends’ May Plant sales.
This is the tag line for the Friends of Holcomb Farm’s farming programs, and we mean it.
On Earth Day, April 22, the Friends of Holcomb Farm formally dedicated the Tree Trail Kiosk, made possible through a donation from the Granby Lions Club.
Originally published in June 1988.
I say it simply—unashamed and unabashed—I love this town.
After my operation, I was really depressed from a combination of pain and medication. I felt very alone and was so uncomfortable that I just lay crying in my hospital bed.
Come for brunch, stay for the live music, lawn games and fun!
Dr. Armand Fusco was recently a guest on CT Valley Views TV show with host Susan Patricelli Regan.
CT Valley Views recently interviewed Robert Hyde, a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
On Earth Day weekend, Granby Land Trust members of all ages helped reduce pollution, improve habitats and prevent harm to wildlife and humans by removing more than 1,500 pounds of trash from Granby roadsides.
Granby Land Trust Board Member John Weeks and his wife, Christine Chinni, led bird walks on six consecutive days in the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve in early May—some for the Land Trust, and some for other organizations, including the Hartford Audubon Society.
Granby Land Trust Vice President (and all-around great guy) Dave Emery gave a presentation on the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve to the Women’s Breakfast Group on May 4 at the Granby Senior Center.
With intense heat and long sunny days, June is the best time to solarize. Solarizing is a powerful way to make wholesale, non-chemical progress on tough invaders like mugwort and other not wanted plants.
What makes a town a thriving, desirable place in which to live besides low taxes and good schools?
A young hiker is enthralled with a young tree on the Holcomb Tree Trail. Approximately 50 people gathered for a walk on the trail on Earth Day.
At this time of year most people have filed their income taxes and may be reviewing their personal finances to plan for next year. Similarly, the town’s elected boards and my staff have just completed the FY22-23 budget process. The input and questions posed by residents attending the Board of Finance Public Hearing in April was appreciated.
Granby’s annual Memorial Day parade and program will be held on Monday, May 30. Parade Marshal Kenneth Rafoss announced that the honorary parade marshal in absentia this year is James O. Hall, U.S. Navy Seabees.
This double rainbow over the Pease Family Preserve is a reminder to pause and give thanks to Bill and Jane Ann Pease, charter members of the Granby Land Trust, who looked out on this view for 60 years before their passing in 2013.
Recently, a friend was reading the New York Times and saw an article on the No Mow May movement. She contacted me to see what I thought about “No Mow May.” Quite frankly, I responded, I didn’t know much about it, but promised to research it.
Karen Hazen recently retired after serving 15 years as the Granby Town Clerk. On April 18, she was presented with proclamations from the Board of Selectmen and the Connecticut General Assembly.