Government/Town
Increase In Car Thefts
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Juvenile arrests for car theft in Connecticut are up 37 percent in the past decade according to a March 2019 article published by the Hartford Courant.
Farming/Nature
Praying for Rain
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This white wire figure appeared in a field next to Mountain Road in West Suffield soon after Earl Waterman had planted his broadleaf.
Government/Town
August Commission Meetings
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Please check the Town of Suffield website for actual time and location (virtual, Zoom, etc.) of the following commission and committee meetings:
History
100 Years Ago in Suffield
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
Op-Ed
The Sterilization of Sunrise Park
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I visited Sunrise Park three months after retiring as the park superintendent. I noticed that behind the house and barn, all the shrubs and bushes were removed. My first response was “WOW, how nice this looks.”
Schools/Sports
SHS 2020 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
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Congratulations to Suffield High School’s Valedictorian Vansh Patel and Salutatorian Gabriella Santaniello.
Organizations
Hilltop Farm 2nd Saturday Workdays
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What do we do at a Hilltop Farm workday? The same kind of things you probably do at home!
Suffield 350th Anniversary Committee
Suffield “Doors” Project
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Doors are how our homes say “Welcome”
Farming/Nature
Take It Away
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The Markowski family farm at Ebb’s Corner put some old shade field netting out by the side of Mountain Road. This fellow said he had blueberry bushes to protect and filled the back of his pickup truck.
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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On October 13, 1920, Suffield presented a grand pageant as part of the three-day celebration for the town’s quartermillenial anniversary. Seven thousand people, many arriving by trolley, sat on a hillside behind what is now Jacqueline Circle and watched a dramatization of key moments in Suffield history.