History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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Two New York visitors touring Suffield on an unusual side-by-side tandem bicycle stop to chat with a native.
Government/Town
COVID Test Kits Distributed
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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.
Government/Town
Bumpy Neighborhood Repaved
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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.
Government/Town
New Chief and Captain Sworn In
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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.
Government/Town
Aid Heads for Storm Victims
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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.
People/Business
Bank Décor Updated
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The newly revealed look of Suffield’s PeoplesBank branch is new indeed!
Organizations
A Happy Juneteenth Celebrated in Suffield
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In The Suffield Observer’s September issue, Liz Warren, a leader of Suffield ABAR, wrote passionately about the significance of Juneteenth, the day chosen by African-Americans to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States — the day in 1865 when the last slave state, Texas, got the news that the Civil War was over, and President Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation became the enforceable law of the land. The news was delivered militarily when General Gordon Granger and his men marched into Galveston to be sure that the Texas army, which had successfully freed the state from Mexico, would understand that the Confederacy’s General Lee had surrendered to General Grant in April.