Real News

I’m ignorant. I am “unaware of, oblivious to, ill-informed about, unenlightened about, and/or naive about” the facts that inform the decision-making of at least 70 million Americans.

Budgets, Taxes and Gambling

By now, most people have heard that this will be an especially difficult budget year for state legislators in Hartford.

Letter to the Editor

I never thought I’d see the day when a dispute between the United States’ intelligence communities and a murderous foreign dictator in which an American leader sided with the dictator.

Irreplaceable Losses

During the last month those of us at The Suffield Observer have lost two of our most loving special men, Sam Fuller and Bob Warren.

Try Not to be Wasteful

I worry about the shape that the world is in and there isn’t much I can do about it, but there are some things I can do that may make a small difference, and maybe by writing this article a slightly bigger difference.

Where’s that Magnet?

It was Christmastime after all, but I was surprised when my friend Ruth slipped something square and hard into my hand, saying “Here’s a present”.

Old Highway Garage Removal Planned

Who among us doesn’t appreciate the beautiful new CVS on Mountain Road? What a fine job the company did, tailoring the new building to fit so beautifully into our town!

Our America Past and Present

In 1883, when Emma Lazarus penned her immortal poem that graces the base of the Statue of Liberty, she was speaking of the safety and opportunity that America offered “the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”.