The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2020/05/page/11/)
Among the many ways help is being offered to folks in town troubled by the many businesses closed and the widespread shelter-in-place practice, meals are a key matter. At least three great programs were quickly established in Suffield.
On April 7, after four weeks of “distance learning” at home, Suffield students of Spaulding and McAlister got to see their teachers again in a lovely gesture organized by the staffs of both schools: a motorized teachers’ parade that covered almost every street in town.
Liam Wright, a freshman in the Suffield Regional Agriscience program at Suffield High School takes his newly acquired woodworking skills to the next level. Liam’s mom explains he’s been using his new skills in his remote learning.
Grateful and encouraging messages began to appear around town soon after the start of the COVID-19 emergency.
The location of the old Suffield Creamery, featured in the Observer’s March issue in Joanne Nielson’s historical reminiscence, then in an April photo with the news of its incipient replacement, is now a busy work site.
A great opportunity to showcase Suffield’s farms is in a cookbook for the 350th anniversary of the town. It is a collaborative effort between the Town of Suffield Farmers Market and the 350th Anniversary Committee.
A bill presented to the State Senate in April 1917, got a “severe wallop” following an adverse report in the House the week before. State Senator Charles Spenser from Suffield was among those who voted yes to kill the bill. What was the bill about?
Near the end of March, new Suffield resident Brady Bill said he had a nibble but hadn’t pulled a catch yet from Stony Brook at this spot just upstream of the Remington Street bridge.
Early Saturday afternoon, April 4, a driver reaches out with his contribution, probably a gift card, for the gals at the Shamrock Café to hand out on Sunday afternoon to veterans.
Lettered on this East Street Tobacco parade float is “THE CROP THAT MADE EAST STREET FAMOUS.” The float may have been part of the Suffield Quartermillennial anniversary parade in 1920, but it might have been prepared for one of the Suffield Agricultural Fair parades some years earlier.