The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2020/07/page/10/)
Because of the pandemic restrictions, Suffield was unable to hold our conventional Memorial Day service on Veterans Park, but First Selectman Melissa Mack was determined not to let the day go unobserved. So she arranged for the Town to produce a virtual service.
The Guaranteed Maximum Price for the Town Hall renovations, received in the first week of June from Gilbane Building, the Town’s chosen Construction Manager at Risk, turned out to be a nice surprise.
On Monday evening, June 8, the Greater Suffield Interfaith Council (GSIC) gathered on the Suffield Green for an Interfaith Prayer Vigil.
Here today and gone tomorrow. That’s how fast a building comes down these days, and several weeks ago that’s what happened on North Street, just south of the Halladay Avenue intersection.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
On October 13, 1920, Suffield presented a grand pageant as part of the three-day celebration for the town’s quartermillenial anniversary. Seven thousand people, many arriving by trolley, sat on a hillside behind what is now Jacqueline Circle and watched a dramatization of key moments in Suffield history.
The West Suffield Village Improvement Association will hold its annual tag sale on Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12 at West Suffield’s Academy Hall (1499 Mountain Road) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m..
Sad to say, the annual Ice Cream Social, sponsored by the Suffield Historical Society, will not be held in July at the King House Museum as scheduled. Depending on events, it may possibly be rescheduled in September.
The old Remington Street bridge was closed entirely at the beginning of June, allowing construction of its replacement to proceed more efficiently and maintain the schedule for completion in October.