The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/author/lester-smith/)
The brief, severe, spotty wind storm that hit the western part of Connecticut on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 4, was just about everything it was forecast to be when Tropical Storm Isaias passed by on its way north. Everything, that is, but rain, and that’s something we really needed — there were only a few sprinkles.
Erika Rozanski, proprietor of the Shamrock Cafe on East Street South, and her friend Jeanie Miller, founder of the Wounded Veterans Project, decided to honor and thank three local police departments with a flash parade.
Lower levels of concrete in both abutments have been poured, and forms and rebar for the upper levels were being prepared at press time.
Norm Noble hangs a barn quilt panel on the end of the King House Museum’s barn.
Gilbane Construction Manager Nishant Patel reported to the Public Building Commission’s August 3 Zoom meeting that the project was fully mobilized, and the building’s interior had been scanned into a complete 3-D digital model for future efficiency in the work.
The Enfield-Suffield Veterans Bridge, opened in 1966, is old enough now that it shouldn’t be surprising that it needs maintenance. The scheduled work is now under way.
In the beginning of the brick repair project at McAlister Intermediate School this summer, most of the work was around back, not noticeable to those passing by. A crew of brick-masons from Armani Restoration, a Middletown company, has been busy since late in June, starting with the task of chipping out eroded mortar and loose bricks.
What was called “The Spanish Flu” touched Connecticut in the spring of 1918, subsided, then returned with a vengeance in the fall. Unlike COVID-19, that pandemic hit children and able-bodied adults hard, as well as old folks and those already susceptible, eventually killing over 8,500 Connecticans.
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.
Project contractor Gilbane’s schedule for the Town Hall listed “Mobilize on Site” for July 6, and in fact there was a bit of activity, with a few cars on site that day.