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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.”

Take It Away

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.