Observer Accepting Scholarship Applications

The Suffield Observer Board of Directors will sponsor two scholarships to Suffield residents who will be entering an accredited two or four-year college in September. The two scholarships are in memory of Samuel S. Fuller, the founder of the paper, and Robert O. Y. Warren, a former chairman of the board.

Food For Thought

 “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”  – Winston Churchill

Suffield Masons Visit Shriners Hospital

Suffield and area Masons of Composite Lodge # 28 recently visited The Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield. Lodge Master John Ledoux led a group of Masons and family members to the hospital to present Melha Shriner Donald Carberry a jar filled with soda can ‘tabs’.

PMC Kids Ride

On May 11, the kids ride again…. The 2019 Suffield PMC Kids Ride, presented by First Suffield Bank, will be held at the McAlister School in Suffield.

You can come home again

There was this place in my hometown of Monroe, N.Y., that one summer was the rage among the “in-crowd.” By “place,” I mean an outdoor bar in the middle of a dusty parking lot, and by “in-crowd,” I mean the stereotypical popular types.

Bee Boxes Built

In recent years, the news has spread that our local flora, including essential food crops, is threatened by the shrinking population of pollinating bees. So on March 3, about 50 people interested in doing something about it gathered at the Second Baptist Church at 3 p.m. in a program sponsored by the Green Team of the church, the Friends of the Farm at Hilltop, and the Suffield Land Conservancy.