The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2018/09/page/4/)
The cherished old building really was in danger of collapse. Glenn Neilson, an experienced construction manager and the member responsible for the care of the First Baptist Church up on Hasting’s Hill at the end of Russell Avenue, had seen some pieces of the ceiling on the floor of the sanctuary and realized there was a problem.
Not long ago television news reported on high school students who had invented a password storage device and were setting up a business to sell it. The device stored passwords and allowed the user to access them by displaying a fingerprint.
Two months ago it seemed that signing the PCB abatement contract was imminent, but at the Observer’s current mid-month deadline, the contract had been signed only by AAIS, the contractor. It was soon signed for the Town.
The Market will carry on every Saturday 9 a.m. until noon through October 7 with the exception of September 8 when they make way for the Suffield on the Green festivities.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith. September 6
A new laundry is being established at the Suffield School and electric washing machines and mangles have been installed.
The Suffield Historical Society will meet on Wednesday, September 19 at 7 p.m. at the Suffield Senior Center.
Guest speaker, Campbell Harmon, will perform in character The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven.
He will also talk about Edgar Allen Poe’s life and the profound influences his work had on American literature.
Join us to learn about Poe’s life. Come and be enthralled!
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” and other unpalatably racist comments. For this, the American Library Association dropped her name from their children’s award, which was begun in 1954.
Aspiring teen painters lose their fear of color at the Kent Memorial Library’s Make a Pet Painting in July.
Come to Play Group, offered to care-givers and children, Friday mornings any time between 10 a.m. and noon. Please drop in.
