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Granby Parents for a Safe Graduation (GPSG), an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that organizes a substance-free Grad Night celebration for Granby Memorial High School (GMHS) graduates, is seeking volunteers.
Every year the Registrar’s office is required to identify those voters on the official voter registry who have moved out of town through a process of a selective canvass of voters. You can help by letting the registrars know if you or your grown children have moved.
Highlights from the meetings held on December 7th and 21st, 2022
Highlights from the meetings held on November 22nd and December 13th, 2022
The focus of the Social Service Department is to coordinate existing federal, state, regional and local services, to increase community awareness of these services and to develop new programs to meet the needs of Granby residents.
Presidents’ Day (Feb. 20) is not a trash holiday. Trash and recycling must be out on your regularly scheduled day.
The Suffield Players presents These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich on Feb. 9 – 25 at Mapleton Hall. The true story of several Radium Girls—young women eager for financial independence and a chance to help their families in the years following WWI.
Susan Regan, host of CT Valley Views, brings viewers up to date on the issues and challenges facing the town of Guilford with guest David Holman.
Doug Williams participated in the Granby Artists Association Open Studio Tour in October. He was happy to demonstrate his oil painting en plein air.
Photos from the games on December 21st and 27th
Please visit the website at granby-ct.gov/senior-services or check your Center Life Newsletter for a complete listing of health services, support groups, clubs and ongoing activities.
Friends of the Southwick Rail Trail and Southwick Historical Society Inc recently installed a Guard Gate marker at the Connecticut/Massachusetts border on Southwick’s bicycle path. The marker was provided by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to provide communities with historic canal markers.
The Hennessey’s golden retriever loves to sit on the front lawn and watch the horses trot up and down North Church Road throughout the morning as part of their race training.
The Summer CSA sold out early this year, which is one of the reasons we need to grow more produce, but you aren’t completely out of luck. The Farm Store in the CSA Barn next to the Methodist Church, at 111 Simsbury Road, is opening for the season June 15.
Farmers are known to require skills that go well beyond planting and harvesting. Sophisticated knowledge of soil chemistry and its impact on nutrition come to mind.
Tons of volunteer time from board members Donna Snyder, Rocky Piccirillo and others, as well as some consulting support funded through a State grant, have helped the Friends of Holcomb Farm complete a Five-Year Business Plan for our farming operations at Holcomb Farm.
Being the partner of farmer Joe O’Grady, Emma Hoyt is well aware of the goings on around Holcomb Farm. Last year, in fact, the Drummer published a story about her mobile chicken coop and its productive occupants who are now laying lots of eggs and eating lots of insect pests in the growing fields.
Now entering its third year of development, the Holcomb Farm Tree Trail is really taking shape. The entrance, off Day St. South near its intersection with Simsbury Road, will soon host an information kiosk, and more interpretive signs and maps are planned.
The Friends want to acknowledge the recent passing of our friend and neighbor, Charlie Warren. Charlie and his wife were known for many things; for us, they were Santa and Mrs. Claus around the large Christmas Tree in front of the Farm, for years.
In the fall of 2006, Donna Snyder arrived in Granby with her young family, returning to the New England area where she had been born and raised. The next spring, she discovered Holcomb Farm when she was looking for a place to purchase pick-your-own vegetables.
In support of the Granby Land Trust and McLean Game Refuge, a First Congregational Church crew celebrated Earth Day on April 24 by collecting a dozen trash bags of roadside litter in just one hour.
After a hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Granby Land Trust (GLT) once again hosted two bird walks over the Mother’s Day weekend at the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve.
Members of the Granby Land Trust Youth Conservation Corps, along with a solid cadre of adult volunteers, including members of the GLT board of directors, property stewards, and GLT members at-large, have spent six weekends working to construct and blaze trails on the GLT’s Katan-Ensor Preserve and Old Messenger Road Corridor properties.
I’ll tell you what needs to change;
Things that need to go as well
Small things to big things
All need to change in one way
Why is it that everyone must live up to the standards of normal,
that some normal is worse than being abnormal,
that some abnormalities are worse than being normal?
We are afraid of COVID
And yes, it is alarming
But something no one mentions
Is the disease within our own heart
Ice caps are melting. Weather is out of whack. Rainforests are being cut down. States are burning.
The rain falls as if the ground pulls at it with a magnet. Unwillingly. Fall rain. Please fall. I let the droplets caress my smile, my eyelids, and my cheeks. I soak it in, staring up at the black sky.
