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Two New York visitors touring Suffield on an unusual side-by-side tandem bicycle stop to chat with a native.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/author/lester-smith/page/7/)
Two New York visitors touring Suffield on an unusual side-by-side tandem bicycle stop to chat with a native.
Soon it would be too cool to pave, but the temperature in late October, 2021, provided the opportunity for one more batch of milling and repaving in a program that had gone on all summer.
Introducing a new police chief and a new police captain at the same time is a rare occurrence, so the Suffield Police Commission held their official swearing in on Thursday evening, January 6, in the high school auditorium, allowing a bit of extra ceremony and giving the expected audience the opportunity to avoid crowding, if they wished.
In an act of generous citizenship, residents of Suffield and others who heard about the plan have donated a large supply of household and personal items to help the victims of the severe wind storm and tornadoes in mid-December that devastated a large region of the South, mainly in Kentucky.
Suffield’s first distribution of COVID-19 Test Kits, provided free by the State, was able to hand out only a little more than 1,000 kits, as well as twice that many N95 masks.
A public information meeting on the proposed new sidewalk connecting the north end of Main Street with neighborhoods to the east was held on August 10.
All of the Town Hall personnel settled into place over spring and summer, and the large and small conference rooms have been put to use variously.
Paul Kulas entertains with his saxophone during the Suffield Historical Society’s traditional ice cream social on August 17. During a fortunate break in the rainy August weather, a good crowd enjoyed the sociability, the free ice cream and toppings, and the kids frolicking on the grass at the King House Museum.
The Class of 1946 at Suffield High School held reunions every five years for quite a while.