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Rick Orluk’s photo of the swing along the Granby Land Trust trail through the Emery Preserve highlights fall’s beauty.
As an accountant who enjoys making lists, I submit this list of local news and notes.
Salmon Brook Historical Society and Lost Acres Vineyard have joined together on a special collaboration that brings back a little of Granby’s history while creating some new history of their own.
November is not only the season of fall foliage, football and elections, but also a time to celebrate small businesses. In honor of National Entrepreneurship Month and Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28, our November issue features a new, recurring section titled “Spotlight on Granby Small Businesses”.
This month’s Featured Sponsor is Cahill’s MotorCars.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact us at: ads@granbydrummer.org
Seventy percent of Americans trust information from local news sources, according to an October 2025 report by Pew Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-advocacy research center. When it comes to local media, people still care about and trust their local journalists.
On behalf of the Library Campaign Cabinet, I want to thank the entire Granby community for its incredible support of the main library branch renovation project. Throughout this process, we have met and talked to countless Granby residents that have offered financial support as well as their time and advocacy.
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.
Support for library expansion, Credit not given, Support for Becker, and Support for Anderson
In the October article, “Drama Club casts a spell in fall production of Puffs,” Soeren Krueger’s name was misspelled.
As an accountant who enjoys making lists, I submit this list of local news and notes.
Salmon Brook Historical Society and Lost Acres Vineyard have joined together on a special collaboration that brings back a little of Granby’s history while creating some new history of their own.
November is not only the season of fall foliage, football and elections, but also a time to celebrate small businesses. In honor of National Entrepreneurship Month and Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28, our November issue features a new, recurring section titled “Spotlight on Granby Small Businesses”.
This month’s Featured Sponsor is Cahill’s MotorCars.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact us at: ads@granbydrummer.org
Seventy percent of Americans trust information from local news sources, according to an October 2025 report by Pew Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-advocacy research center. When it comes to local media, people still care about and trust their local journalists.
On behalf of the Library Campaign Cabinet, I want to thank the entire Granby community for its incredible support of the main library branch renovation project. Throughout this process, we have met and talked to countless Granby residents that have offered financial support as well as their time and advocacy.
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.
Support for library expansion, Credit not given, Support for Becker, and Support for Anderson
In the October article, “Drama Club casts a spell in fall production of Puffs,” Soeren Krueger’s name was misspelled.
The Drummer would like to clarify that both Trish Percival and Shirley Murtha received the Connecticut Press Club’s award for their tribute to Jenny Emery published in the Drummer’s November 2025 issue under the byline “By Trish Percival and Shirley Murtha.” We congratulate both of them on this much-deserved recognition from the Connecticut Press Club.
Check Town of Granby website or call Town Manager’s office to verify date, time, location, and get information on how to participate on Zoom, if needed.
We currently need: Dinty Moore beef stew, assorted crackers (Ritz, Saltines, Town House), canned peaches/pineapple/fruit cocktail, applesauce, ketchup/mustard/mayo/pickles/relish, taco dinner boxes, and dishwashing soap
I live in Granby. I’m here because this board and this community were given the wrong story about why Granby lost the Special Education High-Quality Incentive Grant.
Granby Town Hall was the site for an excellent display by the Fire Marshal’s Office in October. Besides good information for adults on smoke alarms, the display also featured informative coloring books for kids.
Granby residents deserve transparency when significant amounts of public money are redirected from their original purpose.
For a while, it seemed as if evil forces were working against Peggy Chapple and her daughter Meghan Peterson. They just couldn’t get the stars to align and complete the transformation of the former print shop on the corner of Hartford Avenue and Salmon Brook Street into the little coffee house of their dreams.
This month, we are offering a salute to new Granby businesses. Starting a business requires long hours, copious planning and nerves of steel. Historical data from the U.S. Small Business Administration indicates approximately 32 percent of new employer-based businesses do not survive beyond their first two years.
To celebrate their success, we want to recognize the businesses that opened in Granby since 2023 and have beaten the odds by continuing to thrive in the Granby community.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order moving Thanksgiving from the last Thursday of November to the fourth Thursday.
In November 2025, the Granby Board of Selectman recognized Beman Hardware for its 90 years of service in the Granby Community. George Beman started the business in 1935 to support his electrical contractor business.
In recognition of National Entrepreneurship Month, we recognize the oldest commercial businesses founded and continually operating in Granby. We have identified 13 businesses founded more than 40 years ago!