Public Schools Meet the Challenges of 2020

The Suffield Public Schools may look a little different in the fall but whether students are at home or in the school building, SPS is offering new and exciting opportunities for students to learn. First, the upgrade of the Google platform to Google Enterprise allows teachers and students to collaborate, communicate, and learn with each other while apart or together.

Setting a Good Example

This colorful sign takes more than a moment to read and consider, but each line is currently unarguable in polite society. Full disclosure: the sign is on the lawn of an Observer board member; an identical sign is on a lawn across the street.

Gardens Series at the Phelps-Hatheway House

Please join Julie Harrison “The Garden Fairy” and the staff of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden for a unique garden-to-arrangement experience, with the return of our From our Gardens series.

Glenn Packard Tournament

Because Jay Muska and Greg Packard were not able to be at the tournament in person this year, Mike Grip made copies of Jay and Greg’s high school pictures, turned them into cardboard cutouts, dressed them in tournament shirts and posed them for this picture.

New Sign at Former FNBS

In the first week of August, new lettering appeared on the old sign of what we once knew as the First National Bank of Suffield.

A Quiet Day at the Beach

It was a record-matching 99 degrees at mid-day on Sunday, July 19, and still mighty hot in the late afternoon, when this photo at the north end of Babb’s Beach was taken.

Just Floating

These two friends chatted comfortably as they drifted near the shore at White’s Pond in mid-July.