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Good Weather Brought Successful Farming Season
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What a fabulous year this has been for Suffield farmers. The weather was about as perfect as it gets, except for the soggy spring.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2019/10/)
What a fabulous year this has been for Suffield farmers. The weather was about as perfect as it gets, except for the soggy spring.
The Board of Selectman (BOS) took unprecedented action at the October 16 Board of Selectman meeting and voted to rescind the referendum vote and bonding for the Bridge Street Community Center (BSCC) and refer the issue to Town Meeting.
Riding through Suffield Connecticut on a sunny fall day, one cannot help but be impressed by the stunning natural beauty of our town, from the stately and elegant sycamore trees lining historic Main Street to the open rich agricultural fields, recently groomed after harvest, and the vast open spaces, home to a large variety of native plants and wild life.
When people ask me what I am doing in my retirement, one of the first answers I give–proudly–is that I occasionally write for my town’s local newspaper, The Suffield Observer. I do it because I enjoy writing, and also because the very concept of a local volunteer newspaper pleases me.
Election season is a great time of year to ‘check in’ with how our town is being run. What is working?
Phones. So many people of a certain age – usually not elderly – have given up their landlines.
With the passing of Janet Banks, our community finds itself bidding farewell to a community leader who tirelessly gave freely of her talents and effort to enhance the lives of Suffield residents.
By the end of September, the last visible task of the Connecticut DOT’s East Street paving project appeared to be complete. That was the task of rebuilding the little black-topped traffic island at the Enfield-Suffield bridge traffic light, separating northbound cars from left-turning traffic off the bridge.
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe