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The rain stopped, the clouds tried to disperse, and folks kept coming to experience the first Granby Grange Rubber Duck Race at Salmon Brook Park on April 29.
Who makes the best Shoo Fly Pie in town? Find out at Lucy Holcombe Memorial Shoo Fly Pie Contest to be held at the Granby Grange Agricultural Fair on Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Christine Pittsley, special project director from the Connecticut State Library presented a very interesting program, “Harry Townsend and the realities of war,” for the May 3 Granby Women’s Breakfast Group.
Registration is required for many of the library’s programs. To register, follow the links on the library’s website or call the library. To learn more about upcoming programs, sign up for the library’s monthly eNewsletter on the website or by telephone.
Near the south end of the West Granby National Register Historic District stands a house and barn that have witnessed more than over two centuries of Granby history. Built around 1800 by Sadoce Wilcox, an aspiring blacksmith, the Wilcox House has a story to tell about his family and five more generations of Wilcoxes who inhabited the place until 2019.
When Jane Irene Johnson was a toddler, her father built a family cottage on Lake Manitook, just down the hill from her current Granby home. While not precisely a Granby native, Johnson, who has lived in town since 1995, has breathed Granby air in all seasons for nearly 75 years. It goes without saying that this retired art teacher has left her unique mark on the town she calls home.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and its corresponding isolation of nursing home residents, one teen in Granby knew he had to do something.
Dedicated Granby Land Trust board member John Weeks and his wife, Christine Chinni, led the GLT’s annual bird walks on the Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve on Mother’s Day Weekend, introducing sold out crowds to the wonders of the spring bird migration on this spectacular property.
Granby resident Rachel Caswell, RN, a homecare and hospice RN Case Manager since 2015, received the State of Connecticut Nightingale Award of Excellence.
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.
As we drive by the closed and plastic-wrapped Cossitt Library Building, many of us ask the same question: “When will Cossitt re-open?”
Thanks to the success of the COVID vaccination program, things are beginning to return to normal, and one of those normal things is having Granby’s Open Farm Day!
To increase awareness of little-known motor vehicle laws, the Granby Horse Council is hosting a community event—Share the Road. On Saturday, June 19, (rain date June 20) join Horse Council members at Salmon Brook Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the 3rd Annual Share the Road event.
Granby School Health Services Supervisor Jodi French, RN, has been named the Farmington Valley Visiting Nurse Association’s Nightingale Nurse of the Year 2021.
Granby Cub Scout Pack 325 congratulates Matthew Brissette on his victory at the District Pinewood Derby race.
The Granby Public Library is featuring the Granby Camera Club’s twentieth annual photo exhibit from June 1 – June 27.
In June 2003, Jim Hall (pictured above) was given much-deserved recognition for his service to American Legion Post 182 and for organizing Granby’s Memorial Day parade for 33 years. This year we thank Jim for his 51st Memorial Day parade and celebration in a year that desperately needs a drum-thumping, fife-playing outing on the Green.
Application seeking a Special Permit under Zoning Regulations Section 3.12.1 for a mixed-use building to add one residential unit for property located at 25 Hartford Avenue, COCE Zone. File Z-3-21.
Invasive Plant Activists (IPAs) now gather monthly on the second Saturday morning to control invasive plants and allow natives to flourish.
The smoke alarm and the combination smoke/carbon monoxide (CO) alarm can fail to alert consumers to a fire.
The Salmon Brook Historical Society Research Library is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon or by appointment by calling 860-653-9713.
First Congregational Church of Granby has hosted community Strawberry Suppers for years. Last year the event was greatly missed but this year it’s back, just done a little differently: a Drive-Thru Strawberry Shortcake event.
The Granby Multiple Sclerosis Support Group will resume when the Granby Senior Center reopens. Meetings are at 1 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month.
The next Granby Men’s Breakfast e-Group is Friday, June 11. The next three meetings will focus on Granby updates. June will be Jordan Grossman, Granby Superintendent of Schools reviewing the school opening challenges with the pandemic.
What a Blessing it is to see the flowers blooming in the yards,
To hear songbirds singing in the now leafed trees,
Learning the facts about the wildlife that meanders through your backyards, tips over the garbage can or does damage to the chicken run, is the best way to adapt to the presence of those animals, because it’s a two-way process. Here are some books that may help you to understand the black bear … and make cohabitation easier.
Nora Spataj, of East Granby, has earned an Award of Excellence at Western Governors University College of Business.
All former and current Scouts of Troop 125 in Granby, and all grateful residents are invited to the Mary Edwards Land Trust Property on Saturday, June 12, at 11 a.m., for a very special ceremony honoring John R. Bierman.
Hazardous Waste: a household hazardous waste collection will be held Saturday, June 12, 2021 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Simsbury DPW facility, 66 Town Forest Road, Simsbury.
On Sunday, May 2, 72 people from the Granby area assembled on the town green in a public display of support for the local LBGTQ+ community and the Connecticut Parentage Act legislation. The bill, currently making its way through the Connecticut general assembly, clarifies parental rights for the LBGTQ+ community and unmarried partners.