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The Salmon Brook Historical Society (SBHS) participated in Granby’s first Juneteenth celebration with six interactive signs that revealed some of the early history of Granby’s Black residents.
The Granby Youth Service Bureau is proud to be working in cooperation with SAMSA’s Talk: They Hear You campaign to help parents begin and sustain conversations with their children that will help significantly reduce underage substance abuse. From elementary to high school, these conversations can make a powerful difference in our children’s long-term health and wellbeing.
Photos by Flo Bischoff, Megan Garbutt and Shirley Murtha
On May 22, First Congregational Church and South Congregational Church voted overwhelmingly to reunite, forming one United Church of Christ (UCC) congregation in Granby
The Farmington Valley Visiting Nurse Association has announced that Nancy A. Scheetz, agency CEO, has been chosen as the Simsbury Chamber of Commerce Business Leader of the Year 2022. The designation is particularly significant as it is the first time a woman business leader has been recognized.
Nutmeg Senior Rides provides affordable, door-through-door, personal transportation for people 50 and older and adults with visual impairments.
After months and months of hard work in the “off” season, our amazing Farm Crew was excited to open the Farm Store to the public on June 14, and to welcome Summer 2022 CSA members to the farm.
The Holcomb Tree Trail is a small arboretum on the Town-owned, 312-acre Holcomb Farm in West Granby. Volunteers planted its first 16 trees in October 2018. Some of those trees, including a Princeton Elm, are now more than 15 feet tall. Planting has continued, with the total plantings now numbering about 80 trees. One of the design principles has been to plant trees with spring blooms or fall color—or both.
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk—honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
— Samuel Scoville Jr.
Several people showed up to plant wildflower plugs in the meadow across from Maple View Farm on Salmon Brook Street.
To check in quickly at the polls, please bring an ID. Should you not have an ID on election day, but have previously proven your ID, either at the time of your registration or when voting previously, you will need to spend a few minutes at the moderator table, as there is a state required form to fill out.
The Town Clerk is now collecting Absentee Ballot Applications if you know you will be away from home on November 5 or otherwise qualify for an absentee ballot.
Kimball, Ruth (Cotton), 100, wife of the late David W. Kimball, August 24
Please join The Granby Land Trust on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 12:30 p.m., for a fun and productive afternoon on the Land Trust’s Mary Edwards Mountain property on Mountain Road in North Granby.
The Granby Board of Education is seeking community input in its search for a new Superintendent of Schools.
On Sept. 11 there will be a lottery to determine the horizontal ballot order of the candidates for Board of Selectman, Board of Finance, Board of Education, Planning and Zoning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Granby Library Association invites you and your family to its 150th anniversary celebration at the Granby Public Library on Oct. 5, 11 a.m. to noon.
This autumn the Marquis of Granby Junior Ancient Fyfe and Drum Corps will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The Granby Agricultural Commission is sponsoring a free Open Farm Day on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Granby resident Bill Scheel asked what rules apply to recording any meeting. First Selectman Kuhnly indicated the Town Manager’s office would be a better place to have that question answered.
Granby resident Elizabeth Hardersen, 41 Twilight Drive, addressed the board with concerns of residents feeding bears in their yards. She presented to the board a proposed ordinance that came from another town, in hopes it could be a guide for Granby.
Michael Fitzgerald, 25 Strawberry Fields, addressed the commission. Fitzgerald expressed concerns about 29 Bushy Hill Road, Clark Farms.
Kathy Norris, president of the Citizens for a Better Granby, presents 2019 GMHS graduate Kathryn Hosack with the Granby Drummer scholarship.
Granby celebrated, for different reasons, the departure of a number of unique people and/or institutions who have enriched the town over recent years and who can be emulated but never replaced. Permit me to acknowledge them.
On behalf of The Friends of Cossitt Library, thank you for supporting the jigsaw puzzle sale that was held earlier this summer at Cossitt Library. The puzzle sale was started several years ago by the late Bobbie Sullivan and we are happy to continue the tradition.
Something new has been happening at our lovely Granby cemetery this summer. People are deadheading their flowers and pulling yellowed leaves and weeds and leaving them under the water spigots.
The focus of the Social Services Department is to coordinate existing federal, state, regional and local services, to increase community awareness of these services and to develop new programs to meet the needs of Granby residents.
Board of Selectmen, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, Tuesday, September 3, Monday, September 16
Board of Finance, 7:30 p.m., Police
Community Room, Monday, September 23
Board of Education, 7 p.m.,
Central Office, Wednesdays, September 4, September 18
Planning & Zoning, 7 p.m., Town Hall
Tuesdays, September 10, September 24
Inland Wetlands & Watercourses,
7 p.m., Town Hall, Wednesday,
September 11
Development Commission, 7 p.m.,
Town Hall, Monday, September 9
What Connecticut Gold Coast town had a ’18—’19 mill rate of 11.369 and kept it flat for ’19—’20? It is also rated as #12 out of the 100 best towns to live in the U.S. and resident satisfaction has improved over the last three years in all departments. How did they achieve this?