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The 8th Grade Boys Granby Travel Basketball won the NCC Travel Basketball Division II Championship against Ellington on March 6 at Windsor Locks High School. The team ended the season with a perfect 18-0 record.
Appearing on the first page of the March 2022 edition of the Drummer was an article entitled: Granby answers state call for Affordable Housing Plans. The name(s) of the author(s) are missing.
With China including cultivated meat in its latest five-year agricultural plan, the United States should make sure it isn’t left behind by not investing heavily into cellular-agriculture development.
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.
Connecticut’s Section 8 statute has been equitable in providing low-income families with rent and affordable housing. We do not need section 8 30-J or G, Public Act 21-29 (aka House Bill 6107).
Citizens for a Better Granby, Inc., publishers of the Granby Drummer will award a $1,500 college scholarship to a graduating high school senior.
Highlights from the meetings held on Feb. 2nd and Feb. 16th, 2022
Hive you been hankering for a night out with friends? Looking to show off your queen bee costume skills? Does trivia sweeten the honey jar? The 17th (not quite) Annual Gran-Bee flies into view on Friday, April 22, at 6:30 p.m. in the GMHS Auditorium.
Throughout the long winter months, I’ve waited for spring and for my beloved forsythia to blossom again.
Come meet state legislators from the north-of-Hartford region and review the critical legislation passed in 2019 impacting small businesses.
David Sirota will present, What Makes a Quilter Tick?, a fun-filled look in the mirror, at the September meeting of the Farmington Valley Quilters.
Windsor’s historic Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, a museum owned and maintained by the Daughters of the American Revolution, hosts a community program on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m.
There will be a mum sale to benefit Mary’s Kitty Korner, Granby’s no-kill cat shelter on Saturday, Sept. 7, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Open House Tours at Salmon Brook Historical Society will be Sundays, Sept. 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2–4 p.m. Special Exhibits: Circa 1830s Eight-Pointed Star Quilt Reproduction, Stitch in Time exhibit featuring antique sewing machines, textiles and sewing items with interactive displays.
The Granby Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meets at the Senior Center at 1 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month. For more information, please contact Meaghan at 860-428-2463.
The Granby Women’s Breakfast starts its new program year on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 8:30 a.m. at the Senior Center.
Join us Friday, Sept. 13, at the Granby Senior Center. Duncan Rowles will present the current status and future of the U.S. Navy Sea Cadet Program.
West Granby United Methodist Church will hold its annual Tag and Bake Sale on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Mary’s Kitty Korner, Granby’s no-kill cat shelter, is looking for volunteers to help care for kitties until they find their “fur-ever” homes.
Kim Becker, chair of Granby Education Foundation (GEF), will speak to the Granby Civic Club on Thursday, Sept. 19, 1 p.m. at the Senior Center.
Breakfast is at 8:30 a.m. with program 9–10 a.m., cost is $4/pp. Held at Granby Senior Center, 15C, North Granby Road
This fall, the Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series (BPMMS) will launch its eighth season of bringing classical music to life in Granby. This series was established in 2012 in memory of Bruce Porter’s leadership as music director at South Congregational Church.
The Granby Cubs men’s baseball teamfinished the regular season 2-15. The team moved up to the 35+ division for the 2019 season and played many close games after playing in the 25+ division in 2018.
With all the violence and hatred in our world today, how does one find inner peace? I think to myself, how does one find inner peace?
Margot Levesque, a 10-year-old Granby resident, competed in the Connecticut Swimming’s 2019 Long Course Swimming Championships at Cheshire on July 25–28. Margot is a member of the Aquabears Swim Team and had an outstanding weekend, finishing first in one event, second in four events, and third in one event.
The East Granby/Granby Little League 10U all-star team made history in July by bringing home the first district baseball championship since 1992.
Our House became one of Crosby, Stills and Nash’s top 10 songs after its debut in 1970. No wonder: it tapped into our very human desire to have a safe and welcoming retreat to come home to.
The Granby Library Association is a unique organization. It has operated and then supported a public library in Granby for 150 years, although it is a private organization.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020, the Farmington Valley Chorale has commissioned a new musical composition by Ellen Gilson Voth. For lyrics, the composer hopes to incorporate an original poem by a local teen with poetry of Connecticut’s past Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilken.