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1. d. Sylvester Graham 2. a. Governor of New York State & c. He was put forward by the Massachusetts Whigs as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency 3. a. The fourth version of The First Congregational Church, no longer standing & d. The Second Baptist Church 4. c. The trees suffered a blight 5. c. […]
The Suffield Wildcats boys co-op swim team are pictured at Windsor Locks High School, where they won the Nutmeg Conference championship.
My family and I moved to Suffield in late 1984. By the time we arrived in town, residents had attended many town meetings and participated in many discussions regarding installing sewer lines on the East side of town. At one time, the federal government would have paid 80% of the installation costs. Ultimately the taxpayers had to pay 80% of the costs rather than the Feds. This decision cost the town considerable dollars and prevented us from being able to afford future bonding.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith.
The Doyon family and Kyle Englander are hosting a 5K and 10K Memorial Road Race in memory of ET2 Dustin L. Doyon of the United States Navy, who lost his life while serving on the USS John S. McCain on August 21, 2017.
Suffield and area Masons of Composite Lodge # 28 recently visited The Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield. Lodge Master John Ledoux led a group of Masons and family members to the hospital to present Melha Shriner Donald Carberry a jar filled with soda can ‘tabs’. These tabs are then converted into cash as a donation to the hospital. What is not often known is that all Shriners are Masons! There are 22 hospitals throughout the United States.
Identity thefts and scams are rampant in Suffield. The Suffield Police report that they receive calls concerning identity theft and scams daily!
Identity thefts and scams are rampant in Suffield. The Suffield Police report that they receive calls concerning identity theft and scams at least once a day.
One Saturday evening this past March, I sang with the other 80 members of the Springfield Symphony Chorus (SSC) in Springfield’s beautiful Symphony Hall. It was a concert filled with well-known music from 16 Broadway classics including Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Chorus Line, and Phantom of the Opera. The hall was filled with appreciative Broadway music fans entertained by Springfield Symphony’s (SSO) amazingly talented orchestra directed by Maestro Keven Rhodes and the SSC. The SSC tends to sing primarily classical music (our Mahler concert is in the spring), but the Chorus has been invited to sing in a variety of non-classical concerts over the past few years, which, as a diverse music lover, has been a hoot! In 2017, I was lucky enough to be part of a group of 30 SSC singers who got to work with the SSO to sing “background music” as part of a Video Games Live concert, which is dedicated solely to music from video games.
Members (and friends?) of the Judah Phelps household gather for a portrait ca. 1905.