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Granby Parents for a Safe Graduation (GPSG), an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that organizes a substance-free Grad Night celebration for Granby Memorial High School (GMHS) graduates, is seeking volunteers to help with the event.
On Saturday March 18, from 10 a.m.–noon, the Friends of the Granby Public Libraries will have several tables of puzzles for sale inside the main library.
As the second semester has begun and shades of spring become increasingly apparent, events at Granby Memorial High School are beginning to signify a shift in the yearly calendar as well. GMHS’ vast assortment of student clubs, activities, and athletic teams have all devoted countless hours to perfecting their craft in anticipation of the busy, competitive March which awaits them.
Graduating high school seniors who are permanent residents of Granby are cordially invited to apply for the Granby Artist Association 2023 Annual Scholarship. The scholarship is a cash award of $500 given to a student of higher artistic skill to be utilized toward upcoming college expenses.
The Community Scholarship Association of Granby (CSAG) has been awarding scholarships to deserving graduating high school students since 1958. Along with the David A. Schupp, Jr. Memorial Scholarship, established in 1992, CSAG has awarded over $650,000 in scholarships to nearly 400 college bound Granby Memorial seniors making a significant impact on their young lives.
Come for a single lecture or two-four session mini-course on climate change, Latin American music, artificial intelligence, the history of beer, Ukraine, or many other fascinating topics.
Salmon Brook Historical Society, Camera Club, Granby Civic Club, Women’s Breakfast, and Men’s Breakfast
The focus of the Social Services 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.
The Granby Land Trust honors one of Granby’s best: past GLT Board Member Dick Caley, who passed away in December 2022.
When it comes to screen time and social media, the research being done is clear: tweens and young teens that spend time on social media are at greater risk for several mental health issues including suicidal ideation, depression, low self-esteem and anxiety. So, what is the answer?
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.
Jabberhead Agency, a full-service Digital Marketing Agency, founded in 2016 by Granby native Janice Gucciardi, celebrates its five-year anniversary this month.
Spring is here and summer just around the corner. And we are turning the corner on COVID too.
On April 1, John Dewey captured this photo in his backyard on Copper Hill Road in Granby. The black bear ate from the feeder and eventually broke it—clearly giving Dewey the message that it was time to bring the bird feeders in for the season.
Granby’s annual Memorial Day parade and program will be held on Monday, May 31. Parade Marshal James O. Hall announced that the honorary parade marshal this year is Maurice J. Brassard, World War II U.S. Army Air Corps.
