General Programs: Prizes, Programs and Prose!

Kent Memorial Library’s Teen Summer Reading Program “Imagine Your Story” is ready to start Monday, June 29. Read, attend programs, participate in challenges (like Bingo or scavenger hunts or surprise crafts!) and earn raffle tickets for ice cream, Amazon, and other great prizes!

July Commission Meetings

Please check the Town of Suffield website for actual time and location (virtual, Zoom, etc.) of the following commission and committee meetings:

Library Offers Curbside Service

Brianna Chester carries a bundle of books back to her young daughter waiting in the car. She had requested the books by phone, and they were set out on the table when she phoned her arrival.

Sto Lat, Anne!

Anne Barberi waves happily at friends in the parade for her 100th birthday on June 13. A balloon-decorated tractor led the big parade past her house on Hale Street, with police cars, four ambulances, the SFD tower truck, and about 20 private cars.

100 Years Ago in Suffield

Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.

The Sterilization of Sunrise Park

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.”