The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/20/)
Alex Voisine is a “local boy,” though no longer a boy and no longer local. He graduated from Suffield High School and went on to earn his B.A. from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2018, majoring in Spanish and Global Studies, with a minor in Latin American Studies.
A Springfield newspaper photographer gets a close-up as Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans’ hearse rounds the Bridge Street corner. The procession traveled from Bradley Airport to North Adams, Mass., on April 14 for his funeral the next day.
Suffield residents can look forward to welcoming back a familiar friend, Moxy Boutique. This upscale boutique and fine jewelry store, originally started in Suffield in 2011, is returning to the Lily House Bed and Breakfast property, whose garage is being expanded to house the boutique.
Adam Rearick (on the right), a 1997 SHS graduate, just retired as a Major from the Air Force after 22 years of service. This photo was taken on Adam’s LFA (Last Field Alert) as a Minuteman III Nuclear Launch Officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base Montana Echo Launch Control Facility in the 10th Missile Squadron.
Agent Brenda Nuhfer demonstrates the microwave oven to builder Elzear Roy, who dropped in during open house time at his Olde Creamery Village condo apartments on a rainy March Sunday afternoon.
Emile Backes, a well-known face around Suffield, has recently had a book of his poetry published. It is for sale at Feather and Bloom in Suffield’s Mountain Road Market Place.
Julio Figueroa has been promoted to Assistant Vice President – Security Officer at Windsor Federal, headquartered in Windsor.
Residents may recall that a few years ago a FOR SALE sign was set on the front lawn of Webster Bank, next door to the Kent Memorial Library. Webster had been renting out space that the bank didn’t need, as branch banks don’t need the space for other functions that the former Suffield Savings Bank had enjoyed.
When this reporter stopped by Goodyear Farms to see what was going on at that cluster of greenhouses at 676 Mountain Road, he met Allen Clark, who explained that this location is actually part of a local agricultural conglomerate called Clark Farms, Inc. In addition to the greenhouses in Suffield, the family enterprise owns and farms considerable acreage in four towns and two states and operates a popular eatery and farm stand in Granby.
Lukas Nick is pictured with some of what he collected in his Community Action Project for his SHS civics class. He chose the Crossroads Food Pantry at the West Suffield Congregational Church as the beneficiary.