Library Work Enters Home Stretch

Interior painting at the library, which had begun with the new year, was completed in short order. Then the library rested for a few days with the external heaters removed and the new HVAC system operating normally, and on January 23, the required air quality tests were run.

Museum Passes with a Library Card

For eons, the Kent Memorial Library had free and discounted museum passes, paid for by The Friends of the Library. The Library still has them – 16 in fact.

Award-Winning Film Bag It Offered Free

This documentary is the first in a series of free programs on current environmental issues presented by The Second Baptist Church in collaboration with the Kent Memorial Library and the local chapter of the Sierra Club. It will be shown on Sunday, March 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, Second Baptist Church on 100 North Main Street.

Making the Golden Years Shine

Do we take for granted that Suffield offers low-cost housing for the aging and handicapped? If we do, we may find it hard to believe that a half-century ago a proposal for low cost housing for the elderly was dismissed.

Polish Heritage Meeting

The Polish Heritage Society will meet on Wednesday, March 6 at 10 a.m. in the Suffield Ambulance Center. Our guest will be Susan Urban, a Polish folk artist.

Scholar-Sip Wine Tasting

Come join the Suffield Rotary Club for some fun, some food, and yes… some wine, infused liquors, hors d’oeuvres, food tables and a raffle hosted at Suffield by the River on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Our Polish Heritage

Chain migration has been a hot topic in the United States in recent years and it is a sociological pattern that has gone on for centuries. Suffield benefited from it over one hundred years ago when the Poles began to arrive here and resuscitate the overused Connecticut River Valley soil.