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Town/Govt

Town of Granby Meeting Calendar

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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.

Events

Salmon Brook Historical Society News

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Membership in the Salmon Brook Historical Society offers many benefits including free summer tours, newsletters, annual dinner in April, wassail party in December and the opportunity to learn about and help preserve Granby history.

Town/Govt

Public offers input on Center Study scope

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Director of Community Development Abigail Kenyon provided an overview of the Granby Center Study at the Feb. 28, 2023, Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. She discussed how the commission is soliciting ideas from the public for items that should be included in the study.

School & Sports

Superintendent Search Committee update

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In March, the superintendent search consultant, Dr. Mary Broderick, held nine different focus groups with various school and community stakeholders to better understand the personal and professional qualities desired in Granby’s next superintendent of schools. Additionally, a survey was available for community members to complete.

School & Sports

GMHS runners number five in state

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Granby Memorial High School runners have experienced some terrific success this year. In the fall the boys cross country team finished 5th in the state led by senior Daniel Owen.

People

Hang-A-Quilt Day is June 19

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Farmington Valley Quilters is sponsoring its third annual Connecticut Hang-A-Quilt Day event on Saturday, June 19 with a rain date on June 20. This free outdoor quilt show will showcase the art and beauty of quilting.

History

Eva Dewey: Saving Granby’s Past

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Picking up from last month, where we met Bertram Dewey and his career as a rural free delivery man for the U.S. Postal Service in Granby, this month we introduce his wife, Eva, who was equally committed to Granby and public service.

People

Here comes the sun

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These Salmon Brook Park geese would agree that it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter—they sure are enjoying early morning rays.

Happenings at the Center

The Senior Skinny

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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.

History

Guard Gate marker installed on Southwick Rail Trail bike path

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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.

People

Dog smitten with horses

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

Farm Store Opens to the Public June 15

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

The Resurrection

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

Five-Year Farm Business Plan Complete

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

Emma’s little orchard

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

Tree Trail Continues to Grow

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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.

Friends of Holcomb Farm

In Memoriam

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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.

People

First Church celebrates Earth Day with clean-ups

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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.

People

Variety of birds spotted on bird walks

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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.

People

GLT’s Youth Conservation Corps construct and blaze trails

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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.

Student Page

What Needs to Change?

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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

Student Page

Who Is To Say

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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?