The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2016/07/)
On Friday, August 12, the Suffield Rotary Club will be honored to run the 25th Annual Glenn T. Packard Golf Tournament at the Oak Ridge Golf Club. At a time when many golf tournaments are facing diminished interest, would-be participants last year had to be turned away from our full tournament.
Those who commented about Suffield’s Memorial Day this year all agreed that, while they were disappointed that rain had cancelled the customary parade, the ceremony at Suffield High was the best ever.
Enfield Loaves and Fishes (soup kitchen) is in need of garden vegetables.
Creeping slowly clockwise around Quail Run Road, the Galasso crew lay down the first coat of new pavement on the milled surface as a roller follows closely behind.
It’s been ten years since USMC Cpl. Stephen R. Bixler’s heroic death in combat operations in Iraq, and while his ninth annual picnic was an enjoyable outing, it was clear that no one forgot the reason they were there.
Some fruits and vegetables are meant to be picked and eaten right away and others should be left on the vine or on your counter to continue the ripening process. To pick or let ripen? . . . that is the question.
This year’s North Central Connecticut Relay For Life began on June 4 at the Intermediate/Middle Schools track on a lovely spring morning, continued through a perfect day and ended in a gloomy drizzle on Sunday morning.
Images of boll weevils, potato bugs and leaf beetles hardly help the general public to nurture their fondness for beetles. Suffice it to say that there is no shortage of beetles on the planet, as they make up the largest order of insects and are adaptable enough to dwell in diverse environments.
Barry Sisk, left, tells a King House Museum visitor about the Pease family of Suffield.
