The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/author/tony-peterson/page/6/)
Jack Rollet had been a landscaper for 30 years, taking his equipment to D & F Power Equipment in Suffield for parts and servicing, when the founders, Don and Marlene Hoginski, told him they wanted to retire.
Despite a raging rainstorm at admittance time, the second annual Oktoberfest on Oct. 7, sponsored by Hilltop Farm and the Town of Suffield, was a resounding success.
When Drs. Ron and Eileen Kirschbaum were planning to retire, they had their hearts set on one candidate to assume their dental practice at 230A Mountain Road.
“I’m more than happy to be up to my neck in projects,” said Gayle Demko, co-founder with her late husband Chet of Heritage Funeral Home in West Suffield.
“For every dollar town residents raise by October 15, up to $6,000, Suffield will be entitled to $1.50 in matching grant money, or a maximum of $9,000, for a pilot composting program,” according to Sustainable Suffield Chairwoman Anna-Kristin Daub-Murphy.
The North Central Connecticut Chamber of Commerce (NCCCC) has added 70 new members this year for a total of 250.
It was during a routine phone call to her father in the early ‘70s that sparked a transformation in Ann Huntington.
After two and one-half months, the repainting of the big white barn at Hilltop Farm is complete.
Howie Orr, president of the Friends of the Farm at Hilltop, presents the 2023 Volunteer of the Year Award to Carol Komosa.
Hilltop Farm’s Oktoberfest chairman said that the joint Town of Suffield and FOFAH-sponsored event had sold 90 tickets out of 200 as of mid-August.