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The Women’s group met on a rainy January morning for a program featuring three volunteers with the Bright Spot Canine along with their therapy dogs, Rambler, Willie and Deja.
Just in time for 2022 holiday sales, winemakers Kevin Riggott and Michelle Neidermeyer of Lost Acres Vineyard released their newest variety of white wine, which they call Once in a Blue Moon.
There is a new non-profit in town. The newly created Friends of the Granby Public Libraries, Inc. came into being in January to combine the strengths of the Friends of Granby Public Library and the Friends of F.H. Cossitt Library with the mission of supporting the Granby Public Library System. This merger, which took years to complete, was a team effort between the groups with help from Pro Bono Partnership lawyers, the library director and with the support of the Library Board.
On the national holiday celebrating the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., Granby Racial Reconciliation (GRR) sponsored a Civil Rights bus tour virtual panel discussion. The panel consisted of Granby residents, Ken and Rose Mouning, Pastor Clark Pfaff and Ellen Thomson who participated in the tour this past summer.
There was great excitement as members from First Congregational Church and South Congregational Church gathered on Jan. 8 to celebrate the official creation of Granby Congregational Church, UCC, with a party complete with cake and balloons.
At its November Awards meeting the Abigail Phelps Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented the Veteran Volunteer Award to Leesa Philippon of West Granby in recognition of her distinguished military service to our country, outstanding citizenship, and community service.
Most Granby folks today remember Tom Wutka sitting on the porch at Lost Acres Orchard, peeling his apples for the many delectable ways they would be used in the family bakery, including his own specialty, Tom’s Dried Apples. Perhaps, especially if they had children, those same folks would remember him driving the tractor that pulled the wagon filled with sightseers for a trip through the orchard on Open Farm Day. Those memories will have to do, for sadly Tom passed away early in December.
Since the Fiscal Year 2022-23 adopted budget did not include an amount designated for preservation of historical documents, Town Manager Erica Robertson requested the Granby Board of Selectmen to authorize a budget amendment of $5,500 for this purpose.
Profiles on Jean-Luc Godard and William C. Scheel, two Granby artists
Please visit granby-ct.gov/senior-services or check your Center Life Newsletter for a complete listing of health services, support groups, clubs and ongoing activities.
For over 60 years, Granby Community Fund has been raising money to provide grants to local nonprofit agencies. Some of you may recall when Community Fund volunteers went door-to-door soliciting pledges.
Granby has an amazing connection with the famous Juilliard School in New York City.
Remember the wet spring and summer of 2019? Well, 2020 has been a little different.
The Winter 2020-21 CSA is open for purchase, and always sells out.
The Summer 2020 CSA shares sold out incredibly quickly and we know our customers are anxious to reserve their shares for next summer, so we have opened our online sales earlier than usual: Oct. 1 via the website (holcombfarm.org).
2020 was a rough year for humans, but it was a great year for tomatoes!
In the absence of a true executive director, the Friends of Holcomb Farm board president Bob Bystrowski saw the need for a person to bridge the goals of the board with community and financial resources.
Back in the Holcomb Farm Farm Store for another season is the infamous umami bomb… black garlic!
These three elm trees are on the Tree Trail at Holcomb Farm. All three were planted in October 2018, and have grown several feet since.
There is something about hardship (for example, a pandemic) that brings out the best in many people, and the many supporters of the Friends of Holcomb Farm’s Fresh Access program is a case in point.
The Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series 2020-2021 Season has been cancelled due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
This is an historic election year, with a pandemic adding to an already hotly contested election. New poll workers are needed for data entry, for helping at Town Hall for Election Day Registration, at the Senior Center for Central Absentee Counting, as well as working at the polls in the GMHS Community Gym.
Twenty exhibiting members of the Granby Artists Association (GAA) are showing their work at the Windsor Art Center (WAC) from Oct. 1 to Oct. 29.
What does it mean to be vital? To be truly needed? Essential? Important?
The Farmington Valley Chorale continues its 50th anniversary year with a multi-faceted program that provides new opportunities for singers to engage with music making and learning.
Critical to the administrative infrastructure of Connecticut, the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) oversees a wide range of programs promoting business retention and recruitment, Brownfield redevelopment, the arts, historic preservation and tourism.
A large selection of books are available for sale on the Friends of Granby Public Library (FOGPL) Used Book Sale table and book carts. The selection varies from month to month.
East Granby has opened its first story trail at the East Granby Land Trust’s Ian Clark Preserve. Family hikers are welcome to explore the half-mile loop and enjoy the story, When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree, by Suffield author, Jamie L. B. Deenihan and illustrated by Lorraine Rocha.
Kerry Anne Riek, operations manager at ECRI, and Christopher Kenneth Dauerbach, a landscape architect at Derstine Landscaping Design and Build, were married on May 24, in Pennsylvania.
The McLean Life Plan Community has moved forward with plans to construct a residential building adjacent to the current Burkholder building in the McLean Village, which overlooks beautiful Hop Meadow Country Club.