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Thanksgiving Luncheon: Thursday, Nov. 21, 12 p.m. This annual favorite fills up quick, so don’t wait.
The Granby Senior Center offers a variety of affordable exercise classes throughout the week for anyone 25 and older. Only $6/class for Granby residents when you pay the session price.
With a beautiful, confident stride, bouncing ponytail and fluorescent green socks, Lizzy Cappelli stands out in the pack at an October cross country meet at Granby Memorial High School. Another woman runs close beside her because Lizzy is blind.
Many attempts were made to revitalize the Salmon Brook Ecclesiastical Society. In April 1831, it was voted to build a new church, in the geographical center of Granby. And of course, a new controversy raged over the proposed location.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A great man is always willing to be little.” Seth and Lucy Holcombe, who donated 150 acres of land in North Granby to the Granby Land Trust in 2016, were great—and humble— people.
Robert William Kelsey was named to the dean’s list at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the school’s summer 2019 semester.
The Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series welcomes back The New England Ringers for their “Christmas Around the World” program at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8.
LaBonte, Roger Nelson, Sr., husband of the late Mary Ann LaBonte, Sept. 12
In 1887, Frederick H. Cossitt died in New York City. The passing of one who had lived his childhood in Granby and then moved on was not much of an event of note in a town that had seen many of its children leave for greener pastures in the 1820s and 1830s.
It is difficult to imagine a time without computers or smartphones. I recall heading to college with an electric typewriter feeling fortunate as typing would be so much easier than with a manual machine.
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