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Sidney Eitel helps one of her chickens climb the ramp. With family help and generous donations, she renovated 900 square feet at the west end of the old Hilltop Farm chicken house, bought two dozen chicks, and is now about ready to market their eggs.
On July 24, Ruth Zimmerman enjoyed a surprise drive-by parade for her 80th birthday. Carol Martin and Ann Kannen with Dave Kannen driving celebrated Ruth’s birthday as she waves to them.
The Observer’s peripatetic photographer happened upon one of the Parks & Rec Department’s summer camps in late July and stayed to watch. This year the summer camps were significantly affected by the required COVID-19 behavior standards.
A proliferation of chipmunks has been reported this season hereabouts, but this cute little fellow, pictured recently at the King House Museum on the seesaw of a Havahart trap, has “gone on to greener pastures.”
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) announced that Dr. Rohit Singhania, a Suffield resident, has been named a Fellow of the AGA, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious medical society dedicated to disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
These two friends chatted comfortably as they drifted near the shore at White’s Pond in mid-July.
It was a record-matching 99 degrees at mid-day on Sunday, July 19, and still mighty hot in the late afternoon, when this photo at the north end of Babb’s Beach was taken.
Summer is the time when gardeners have too many zucchinis. What seemed like a good idea in May becomes a burden later.
In the first week of August, new lettering appeared on the old sign of what we once knew as the First National Bank of Suffield.
