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Fitzgerald's Foods, a mainstay of Simsbury's commercial center, is getting a new owner next month.

Anyone who knows Granby resident Nancy Butler as a multi-talented artisan and goat whisperer would probably be amazed to know that, although having an artistic bent from childhood, her college degree was in geology with a minor in civil and environmental engineering and that her first career was as a paralegal!

The Holcomb Tree Trail is a small arboretum on the Town-owned, 312-acre Holcomb Farm in West Granby. Volunteers planted its first 16 trees in October 2018. Some of those trees, including a Princeton Elm, are now more than 15 feet tall. Planting has continued, with the total plantings now numbering about 80 trees. One of the design principles has been to plant trees with spring blooms or fall color—or both.

The 32-acre farm that Wethersfield voters bought for more than $2 million in 2018 should become a non-profit working farm, recreation fields and walking trails, a study panel told the council this week.

A list of the dozens of artisan and craft fairs in the Hartford area for holiday shopping in 2021.