The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/26/)
On a rainy Wednesday evening October 6, Sonny Osowiecki was celebrated for his recovery from emergency heart bypass surgery in April and honored for his recent retirement after 38 years of significant service in the Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association.
Flash mobs and flash parades are products of twenty-first century digital technology and the social media it enables, and Suffield is certainly enjoying the parades, if not (yet) the mobs.
In late April, two construction workers hold their shovels to guide the pour into the space between the forms. They’re pouring the eastern foundation wall of the new office building Briarwood Construction is erecting on the site of the old Suffield Creamery on Mountain Road.
On Boston Neck Road next to the dam and the bridge over Stony Brook, the condition of Brookside, the neglected mansion there, has made a turn for the better.
It was in September 2017, when excavation began, and a couple of weeks later that a belated official “groundbreaking” took place.
Masked and gloved to protect the friends they’re sharing with, Bob and Kerry White pour flour into smaller bags on their West Suffield porch.
A variety of thank you signs have appeared around town to show thanks to all those people who are going above and beyond to keep us safe during this pandemic.
Luminous Letter Company brought some light into the lives of our local health care workers in May.
Observer columnist Mary Anne Zak, right, enjoys a visit from her daughter Sarah through the window of her room at Suffield House. They talk by phone.
Those lucky enough to be well and staying at home have turned to various things to stay engaged. My husband and I are watching Westerns. I couldn’t be more surprised! The solitary, tough, taciturn tall man-in-the-saddle image is an anathema to the kind of guy I like to see in the movies. But, for the moment, I am hooked.