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In her 42 years teaching music at Suffield Middle School, Linda Seabury knows a good prospect when she sees one and she saw one in Jenny Sansom: “At 10 years old I knew she had it as a musician; she had beautiful pitch and an incredible dedication to becoming better.”
Not many people know that two Alaskan islands were invaded and occupied by the Japanese during World War II. In June of 1942, about six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese took the sparsely populated Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska.
During a Baltic cruise, Diane and Dan Phelon stop with the Observer at the extraordinary Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the major attraction in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger & The Matriarch, Barbara Bush and the making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page.
An upcoming doctor’s appointment had me wondering how I was going to answer the Dreaded Question of “How are you?” A response of “Fine, thanks, how are you?” was probably not going to be sufficient.
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.” – Amit Ray
Earlier in May, former NBA player and recovering addict Chris Herren spoke at an assembly at Suffield High School. It wasn’t the first time he spoke there, but this time, in the parlance of our youth, it just got real.
