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Suffield Savings Bank president W.S. Fuller applies Scotch-Lite tape to a rear fender as Police Chief Frank Sutula keeps a record.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/author/lester-smith/)
Suffield Savings Bank president W.S. Fuller applies Scotch-Lite tape to a rear fender as Police Chief Frank Sutula keeps a record.
Over 50 people gathered at the Kent Memorial Library on Monday morning, April 10, to recognize the installation of a Witness Stone for Tamer, an enslaved Black girl purchased in 1777 by Suffield businessman Luther Loomis.
A crowd of almost sixty attended Suffield’s traditional Veterans Day Ceremony at Veterans Park on the morning of November 11.
Previous first selectman Melissa Mack created the Veterans Committee, among whose tasks was to seek out additional names that might appropriately be added to the limited space available on the Suffield Veterans Memorial.
Town officials and what appears to be a work crew are pictured In January, 1891, after a big batch of Stony Brook ice flooded to block Boston Neck Road at the road’s low point near East Street.
Plans for the reconstruction of the former Saint Joseph church buildings on South Main Street to become apartments are continuing, but the only visible step has been the removal of the two statues that formerly graced the property.
Suffield VFW Landry-Sic Post 9544 held their monthly First Saturday Vets Breakfast on November 5, and two things happened that were not typical.
A major redevelopment of the St. Joseph Church property on South Main Street was discussed by its proposer with the Planning and Zoning Commission at their October 3 meeting.
The tale of the tobacco shed standing quite close behind a new home being constructed at 510 North Main Street was reported in the Observer’s October issue.
When the staff of Suffield’s First Congregational Church came to prepare for the Sunday service on October 9, they faced a shocking surprise.