The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/22/)
No matter what time of day you pay a visit to the McGrath house in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland, you will be greeted with a cup of tea and a slice of warm Irish Brown Bread. At breakfast one morning Kathleen, as she is locally called, explained that the bread was easily made, and proceeded to make a fresh loaf before I had finished my coffee.
Kyle Englander, a 2019 graduate of Suffield High School, knows how to turn the proverbial lemons into lemonade. A three-season runner at SHS during all four of his years with a 2018 cross country Class M title under his belt, he was also part of a record-setting 4 x 800 relay team which won the 2019 Class M State Open and New England indoor crowns as well as the 2019 Class M outdoor title.
When Jordan Mazur graduated from Suffield High School in 2008, he knew he had an interest in health, nutrition and working out. A typical college freshman-not knowing exactly what he wanted to do-he thought he would explore this area at UConn.
A carpool ride from Warehouse Point to Broad Brook to attend a CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) meeting was the beginning of a friendship for fourteen-year-olds Sandy Perham and Jim Mather. They dated through high school and married in 1963, and this special relationship has remained the same for these 58 years.
On November 14, when Governor Ned Lamont signed a significant new bill that had been approved by both houses of the state legislature in September, he brought his entourage to an old tobacco warehouse on South Grand Street for the ceremony. The bill, the first in the country, brings Connecticut state regulations concerning hemp growing and processing into compliance with federal law.
This is photographer (and retired library director) Jackie Hemond’s entry in her distributed family’s holiday gingerbread contest, which was held virtually by texting photos to each other.
As part of the Santa Drive-By, Leah Emmett and Colin Berger (from Agawam) enjoy free Santa’s cookies from Highland Park Market.
Jacquelyn Guzie, has been named by BusinessWest.com as one of their 40 Under 40 awardees for 2020.
Isolation, sadness, depression, anxiety, despair, anger, boredom, agoraphobia, paranoia, thoughts of suicide, increased drinking or substance use: do any of these hit home for you or someone close to you? Whether you are five or 95, it is almost impossible to have avoided many of these feelings or behaviors over the past nine months.
David DiPiero has been promoted to Vice President, Compliance Office at Windsor Federal. He joined Windsor Federal in 2005 as Compliance and Quality Asssurance Specialist with over nine years of prior work experience in banking and financial compliance.