Editorial

Library Staff – “Thank You”

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The community of Suffield should be thankful to Jackie Hemond, Library Director, and her library staff. With the Kent Memorial Library closed for almost five years, they managed to provide services to our residents through an undersized temporary building on Fyler Place. To say this was an inconvenience for them is an understatement. They managed to hold most of their usual events there or they were creative in finding a more suitable place in which to hold them. The reopening of the library was such an up-and-down situation with the Department of Environmental Protection calling all the shots that planning was extremely difficult. Basically the Town had no control over the situation.

Organizations

Free Vision Screening

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The Suffield Lions Club is offering free vision screening at Kent Memorial Library for any child age six months and older.

Farming/Nature

Autumn Color at SHS

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The bright color of these gorgeous maples along Sheldon Street by the high school was nicley captured by the photographer three years ago. No matter what year, it gets us in the autumn mood.

Editorial

We Are the World

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Bienvenido a los Estados Unidos. Welcome. Wrote Emma Lazarus, “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” With the image of caged children seared in our brains, it’s time to reflect. We are a restless species and every one of us, or our ancestors, came here from somewhere else.

Government/Town

FECS Co-founders Honored

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Jill Caron holds the General Assembly citation she and Sue Davis, co-founders of the Foundation for Exceptional Children of Suffield, received from State Representative Tami Zawistowski for their effort in promoting new legislation requiring training for first responders dealing with people who have cognitive disabilities.

Library

“Open Wide”

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After some playtime at the Library, Jill McNerney offers a bit of Librarian Lois Gracey’s retirement party cake to her son Jack, 2, before the bike ride home on a lovely September morning.