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The Aquarion Environmental Champion Awards recognizes individuals, businesses, and organizations across Connecticut dedicated to environmental protection and sustainability.
Aquarion Water Company will be offering upcycled rain barrels for sale as part of the company’s ongoing water conservation efforts.
The Friends of Granby Public Library (FOGPL) Used Book Sale traditionally held in late September will be held in July this year, from July 29-31 at Holcomb Farm.
The Friends of Cossitt Library Annual Puzzle Sale is slated for Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This popular event will be held on the rear patio of the Granby Public Library. Should the weather be inclement, the rain date is the following Saturday, April 16.
Research Library in the Preservation Barn is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon or by appointment by calling 860-653-9713. Research fee $25 per hour.
Summer Camp Registration is now open. Day Camp, Mission Adventure and a plethora of summer sports, enrichment, fitness and wellness camps for children of all ages just announced.
After retiring, my mom and dad settled in Florida to escape the winter cold. Of my parents, my mother had always seemed to be less robust. However, it was my father who succumbed to acute leukemia in October 1998.
The Granby Men’s Breakfast group held its first in-person gathering in two years in March with 30 in attendance. The speaker was Mike Campbell from the Mark Twain House, relating fun facts about the historic museum.
The Neighborhood News was a weekly Granby newspaper, which ran from 1939 to 1943. It was produced by two children, Buddy Pendleton and Mary Teale. Buddy, age 6, was the editor, and Mary, age 6, the assistant editor, although sometimes her older sister, Christine, age 11, would fill in for her.
Photographers captured these moments from GMHS boys and girls tournament games in late
February and early March. GO BEARS!
Friday, Sept. 13 is the date for this year’s Granby UNICO Charity Golf Tournament, to be held at Tunxis Country Club in Farmington. Cost for players is $135, which includes golf, lunch, dinner, drink tickets, premium open bar reception, raffle and driving range.
At a recent chapter dinner, Granby scholarship recipients were recognized. From left: Mario Dei Dolori, UNICO scholarship committee chairman, with GMHS graduates Chris Weber, Anthony Spica, Jack DiMeo and UNICO President Joy Marx.
Trash holiday: Monday, Sept. 2 – Labor Day is a holiday for Paine’s Inc. All trash pickups will be delayed by one day the week after the holiday.
Play a fun game created in the 1630s that will sharpen your wits and introduce you to meet new people in the community. The cribbage club meets at the Granby Senior Center Fridays at 1 and 6 p.m.
Granby lands are under attack. Invasive plants are taking over our forests, fields and gardens.
If you have driven by the Cossitt Library lately, you will see more windows are being protected by plastic tarp. The Friends of the Cossitt Library have embarked on a multi-phase project to rehabilitate and preserve this magnificent old structure.
Over the last six years much has been done to identify, understand, educate and treat the epidemic of opiate addiction. Initial statistics were startling.
Ranicar, James Arthur “Jamie”, III, 51, husband of Deborah A. (Groves) Ranicar, June 22
Granby Stop & Shop Manager Angel Cruz knows his customers are a generous bunch. For National Watermelon Day, they donated nearly 100 watermelons to the Waste Not Want Not kitchen.
The 37th annual Friends of Granby Public Library (FOGPL) book sale will be held Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21 – 23 at Holcomb Farm, 113 Simsbury Road in West Granby.
Town of Granby voters approved the three bonding issue questions on the
June 4 ballot. The official voting results were as follows:
Beginning on July 15, Granby residents will be able to recycle unwanted textiles and small household items simply by bagging them and leaving them at the curb on their regular recycling collection day. Granby is providing the new service in partnership with Simple Recycling.
Friends of Granby Public Library have begun collecting books for the annual book sale to be held Sept. 21-23 at Holcomb Farm.
Horses and Hounds hosted a DockDogs® event that put doggy contestants in the water to compete in three disciplines. Big Air is a long jump for dogs and Extreme Vertical is the high jump.
Granby Youth Lacrosse honored a member of its lacrosse family and Granby graduate of the class of 2004, Lindsay Bugbee Crosby, on April 28. Lindsay passed away on July 4, 2018, shortly after the birth of her third child.
The Granby Senior Center celebrated the arrival of its new 14-passenger van on Wednesday, June 5, with a ribbon cutting ceremony, inaugural van ride and luncheon. Several members of the center joined board members from the Granby Community Fund to commemorate this special occasion.
Jack Tortland has been named to the Emerson College dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester. and is a member of the class of 2021.
On a motion by Selectman King, seconded by Selectman Neumann, the board voted unanimously to accept, with regret, the resignation of Lana Ferguson from the Conservation Commission.
Louis A. Urban, Sr., 91, long-time Drummer volunteer passed away June, 4, 2019. Associated with the Drummer for some 35 years, Lou is probably best remembered as an excellent photographer who also contributed articles.
