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been appointed vice president, sales manager, and LPL investment advisor representative for Westfield Investment Services and will be based out of Westfield Bank’s Granby office at 12 East Granby Road.
Please visit granby-ct.gov/senior-services or check your Center Life Newsletter for a complete listing of the health services, support groups, clubs, and ongoing activities.
Thursdays, mid-June to October. Tentative start is June 15, 11–11:45 a.m.
On April 28, 23 teams gathered at Granby Memorial High School to participate in the 18th annual Gran-Bee, a fund raiser for the Granby Education Foundation which provides innovative education programs throughout Granby.
You are in good company if you have postponed your check-ups—an estimated 32 percent of American adults delayed routine medical care during the pandemic. Now is the time to schedule your healthcare visits as it may take longer to get in with many seeking appointments.
ormer NBA and UConn Basketball standout player AJ Price will be a featured guest at this year’s Granby Celebrates Juneteenth. Price, along with Connecticut State Senator Douglas McCrory and WFSB Channel 3 reporter Susan Raff, will judge the basketball skills contest, 3-point shootout and 3 on 3 basketball tournament.
More than one resident attending the April 10 budget public hearing had an issue with adding $4 million to the budget for an emergency communications system upgrade.
Erica Robertson, town manager, resigned last month, so per the charter, First Selectman Mark Fiorentino has assumed the role.
In 1977, our parents, Tom and Ginny Wutka, had the crazy idea to sell their spacious custom colonial and buy the orchard up the street where my big brother had been working picking apples on the weekends.
Thirty-five Granby citizens, from children to seniors, walked from Oakridge Drive to Mapleview Farm on April 16 as part of a community walk organized by Meg Jabaily, a master’s degree candidate at Boston Architectural College’s Design for Human Health program.
Application seeking a Special Permit under Zoning Regulations 8.16.10 for outdoor dining for property located at 357 Salmon Brook Street, Cambridge House Brew Pub. File Z-10-21.
The next Women’s Breakfast will be Wednesday, Nov. 3, 8:30 a.m. at Granby Senior Center. Holcomb Farm’s Past and Present will be presented by Joseph O’Grady, Farm Manager. To register call 860-844-5352. Cost $4.
Please consider donating your bottles/cans to the Granby 4-H Robotics program. Each of the three 4-H robotics teams made it to the 2021 World Championship and each received a World Championship Award.
The next Granby Men’s Breakfast Zoom meeting is Friday, Nov. 12. Don Rethke and the Granby Robotics Team will present a live demonstration.
The Granby Lions is conducting its 26th Annual Birdseed Sale. Orders may be placed up to Nov. 6, for pickup or delivery on Nov. 13.
Please help Cossitt’s Friends continue our holiday tradition of providing children’s books to include in Granby’s Department of Social Services annual Holiday Gift packages for families.
The 38th Annual Christmas Cottage Craft Fair will be held in a new location this year; St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 224 Lovely Street in Avon. The fair runs on Thursday, Nov. 4 and Friday, Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The New England Air Museum is honored to premier a new exhibit featuring the Polish Kosciusko Squadron 303 pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain and arguably changed history. Winston Churchill called it “one of the decisive battles of the war” and, according to many historians, the Battle of Britain would have been lost if not for the Polish airmen.
Since October 2019, this column has profiled some of the worst invasive plants plaguing Granby’s fields, farms, forests, and gardens, and described ways to control them. This month’s column reviews in brief the first year of NOT WANTED columns.
Granby Land Trust president Rick Orluk presented the 2021 Mary Edwards Friend of the Land Trust Award, the highest honor bestowed by the GLT, to North Granby residents Dave and Jenny Emery, who have been incredibly supportive of the GLT over many years.
Susan Patricelli Regan, host of CT Valley Views TV show, interviewed Kim Stroud, Academy Director and Natasha Miles, Visual Arts Department Head, of CREC’s Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts at the Hartford Campus.
Jenny Matilda Smith (Anderson) , formerly of Granby, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 15.
The Granby Celebrates raffle was a great event, and the Granby Chamber of Commerce thanks everyone who participated. More than half of this year’s winners have never won a raffle before—how exciting!
A day set aside for giving thanks has been a part of New England tradition since 1621, when the Plymouth Colony survivors celebrated their first harvest.
When I was in the sixth grade at Kelly Lane, I had Mrs. Cowper for English. However, months later, her husband accepted a job transfer to Baltimore and they moved away.
While the wet summer has not been great for vegetable growing, it has been super for fruit, and the bounty at the Thrall Family Homestead Farm in neighboring Windsor was overflowing. What to do? Friend and neighbor Sarah Thrall called and said, “Come on over and pick what you can” to add to the food we provide to our Fresh Access partners.
Born and raised in Ohio, new Friends of Holcomb Farm board member Amy Eisler moved to West Hartford in 2005 with her husband and three young daughters. Having been involved with CSAs wherever she has lived, it didn’t take her too long to discover Holcomb Farm here in Granby.
Granby resident Susan Patricelli Regan announced her bid for governor earlier this year and has campaigned across Connecticut in the months since. In the photo above, Regan speaks to the Metacon Gun Club in Simsbury on Sept. 21.
World War I Monuments of Connecticut: Thursday, Nov. 4, 6:30–7:30 p.m. at Main Branch.
The Frederick H. Cossitt Library is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Friends of the library will be doing a series of articles to help Granby residents understand why this is important and how it works.