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Passionate, dedicated, hard-working, and resourceful only begins to describe team of full-time employees at the Granby Recreation Department.
Paul Willis shares his May 9 photo of his house on a glorious spring day.
A Gospel Singing Competition will be held at Pilgrim Covenant Church, 605 Salmon Brook St. on Saturday, June 11, at 7 p.m.
Burkentine, the developer of Station 280, and the Farmington Valley YMCA celebrated the 8:30 a.m. start of the Granby Road Race with a $5,000 sponsorship check presentation to Brian Liss, executive director of the Farmington Valley YMCA.
Berard, Jeffrey Albert, 67, long-time friend and companion of Heather Frost, April 11
The Summer Solstice, June 21, is the longest day of the year. While we enjoy the extra hours of daylight, that light also sheds hope in a nationwide effort to end Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia.
On graduation day, high school seniors receive their diplomas and head off to college or the workforce. Each high school diploma has three signatures: the superintendent, the principal and the chairperson of the Board of Education. For some Granby graduates, those signatures will look familiar because many had a parent serve as the chairperson of the board, including myself.
Even as a child, Shannon Wilson knew she wanted to work with animals. As she passed through her school years, she discovered a passion for science. Veterinary medicine was an easy choice—a career in which she could pursue both.
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.
I am a kayaker and a hiker who travels the Farmington River in the warm seasons and walks on trails that run along the Salmon Brook just about every day.
