Events
Camera club hosts fine arts photographer
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The Granby Camera club is hosting Photographer/Artist Mark Battista at its Oct. 7 meeting. His presentation will cover Still Life Photography and Compositional Concepts.
The Arts
Artists invited to enter Granby Land Trust Art Show
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Calling all artists—you are invited to enter your work in the Granby Land Trust’s 14th annual juried art show celebrating nature and the art it inspires. Works should be inspired by New England’s natural beauty.
Great Outdoors
Friends of Holcomb Farm
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It is fall in New England, and Granby offers some of the best open space hikes around; the Town’s own Holcomb Farm is one of them. The Friends’ Stewardship volunteers have been busy mowing the east field, maintaining walking paths, planting and labeling trees, installing eight new interpretive signs, installing new boardwalks over muddy areas, and rehabbing the South East Field.
The Arts
Salmon Brook Music Series features folk/rock artist Susan Werner
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Susan Werner has made a name for herself coast to coast. From her 1995 major label folk/rock debut Last of the Good Straight Girls to her 2007 collection of agnostic gospel hymns The Gospel Truth to her 2017 travelogue An American In Havana, Werner writes ambitious concept albums with subject matter and sounds to match.
Events
SBHS Flea Market is Oct. 19
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The Salmon Brook Historical Society’s always popular Fall Flea Market is scheduled for Saturday, Oct 19.
Town/Govt
Oct. 29 is deadline for seven-day in-person registration for the municipal election
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The Granby Registrar of Voters will hold a special last day, all-day voter registration session from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at their Town Hall offices.
Town/Govt
New Poll Workers Meeting Oct. 8
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Please join the Registrars on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. to learn all about the joys of helping democracy happen here in Granby.
Out of Town
Flu shot clinic offered at McLean
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McLean Home Care and Hospice will host a flu shot clinic on Wednesday, Oct. 22, from 2:30–5:30 p.m. in the McLean Burkholder Community Center, 100 Sarah Lane, Simsbury.
School & Sports
Africa Education Partnership welcomes Nigerian partners
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Africa Education Partnership (AEP), a 501(C)3 organization, welcomes Bishop Markus and Mrs. Nana Dogo to speak at the Gathering Room, Park House, Salmon Brook Park, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7—9 p.m.
Out of Town
Local baseball players awarded scholarships
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Nate Orluk of Granby (left) and Jon Wilson of East Granby helped lead the Simsbury American Legion Baseball Team to a Zone 1 Championship this summer and both were awarded the 2019 Elmer Vincent Scholarship Award.