Farming/Nature
October Colors
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Fall beauty glows along the towpath of the Windsor Locks Canal State Park in a previous October.
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Fall beauty glows along the towpath of the Windsor Locks Canal State Park in a previous October.
Suffield is well-known for its annual traditions, but have you made it to Scare-It-Up-Suffield yet?
The voter registration cutoff date is Tuesday, October 30. On that day the Registrars of Voters Office will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and online voter registration will be open until 11:58 p.m. at VoterRegistration.ct.gov
The early evening sun reflects off these Bridge Street utility wires to make a surprising photo. Thick, competitive cables for TV and Internet have doubled the number of wires decorating our roadsides.
At least twice during a few days in September, this juvenile bald eagle was seen loitering on a residential street in Suffield center, a surprising view for early morning walkers or motorists.
The Rotary Motto is Service above Self. Rotarians are involved in many projects in our community, and in the world.
The Land Conservancy’s South Grand Street property has gone through some recent reclamation work this past spring and summer. The 60-acre property was given to the Land Conservancy by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline as part of their wetland mitigation program last fall. We are happy to announce that so far a new parking lot space has been created for a few vehicles to utilize. There has also been the addition of gravel for the road leading to the parking lot, with a new fence at the end. It is the Land Conservancy’s goal to delineate and remove invasives in the cropland fields to deter them from seeding in 2019.
The September 1 Harvest Dinner put on by the Friends of the Farm at Hilltop was a sell-out success.
In mid-September, painters stand atop a tall man-lift to apply a special gilding to the weather vane and dome of the Second Baptist Church.