Recent Stories

Purges, Plasters and Phlebotomy

Medical care in the small towns of Connecticut during the late 17th to early 19th centuries was chancy. Few physicians attended a medical school, and those who did were severely limited by the appalling lack of accurate medical knowledge.

Parks & Recreation

Salmon Brook Park Day Camp and Mission Adventure
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Public Works

Household Hazardous Waste: Granby will once again work with local towns to host hazardous waste collections this year. The first collection will be Saturday, April 24 from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. at 10 Monteith Drive, Farmington.

The Loophole

All fisherman, whether they will admit it or not, have a thing for records. We’re obsessed with researching, talking about, and pursuing them.

Land Trust memorializes Dismal Brook caretaker

The Granby Land Trust and Jamie Gamble memorialize longtime property caretaker Olof Stevenson with the installation of a plaque on the bench located on the northwest corner of Stevenson Field on the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve.

Granby and the 1918 Spanish Influenza

The coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all, our small town and across the entire nation. This was also true of the Spanish influenza from 1918 to 1919 when 675,000 Americans lost their lives. At that time, Granby was a small agricultural community but not immune to its effects as well. Six citizens lost their lives.

Our sentiments exactly!

Some creative snow artists on Route 20 west of town built this icy PacMan ready to take a bite out of COVID-19.

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