The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/author/lester-smith/)
Suffield’s first experience with the “Field of Flags” concept was assembled on a breezy, beautiful Saturday morning of the 350th celebration weekend, October 10, with great results.
Enthusiastic celebrators gathered in the Suffield High School parking lot on a lovely fall afternoon, Sunday, October 11, for an anniversary car parade.
Traffic jams in Suffield Center plagued motorists at the end of September and early October as lane changes were enforced to allow a construction crew to do its work. It turned out to be a substantial job, as two new steel towers were being installed, along with many stretches of electrical cable buried under the pavement.
Following the big two-day task of setting the six long beams in place in early September, effort focused on building forms and installing rebar for the concrete deck and the important structures at the beams’ ends.
Renovation work is reported to be making good progress at the Suffield Town Hall, a great deal of it taking place inside, out of sight. The October 15 meeting of the Permanent Building Commission, which was held in a hybrid fashion with several members together at the West Suffield Fire Station and others participating by Zoom, heard Gilbane Construction project manager Jonathan Moulton review the work.
The following unexpected paragraph appeared in the January 2, 1914, issue of the Windsor Locks Journal, the first issue of that new year.
It was an impressive operation at the Remington Street Bridge project the first week of September. With the new east and west abutments ready to receive their load, and grading preparations on each shore complete, it was time for a giant crane to be set up and for the six beams to be delivered and lifted into place.
A substantial part of renovating of our almost sixty-year-old Town Hall was the selected demolition and hazardous material abatement that occupied most of August.
Noticing a visiting fire engine parked briefly at the Suffield Fire Station recently, this reporter discovered the story of a remarkable transaction.
This spring, a New York contractor who specializes in farm structures was hired to build three curing sheds for two Suffield tobacco farmers and a few more in Southwick.