The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/28/)
Most young people from Suffield have found themselves enduring a demanding schedule during this school year without much time for any leisure. Many of those in high school are diligently balancing their considerable academic course loads with sports and fine arts commitments, and for some, even a job that eats up their extra free time.
The location of the old Suffield Creamery, featured in the Observer’s March issue in Joanne Nielson’s historical reminiscence, then in an April photo with the news of its incipient replacement, is now a busy work site.
Grateful and encouraging messages began to appear around town soon after the start of the COVID-19 emergency.
While adults in our community have alternated recently between worry over the health of our loved ones and ourselves, our job security, homeschooling our children, the food security of our friends and neighbors, and the need to support our local businesses, we’ve also understandably grieved some of the things we planned and looked forward to prior to a pandemic: vacations, holidays, weddings, milestones for our high school seniors, such as a definite graduation celebration.
With so many folks avoiding their usual work spaces and other populous places, the sidewalks and country roads of Suffield have become happily crowded with walkers.
BrightStar Care, whose motto is “A Higher Standard of Home Care,” has moved to Suffield. After a decade in Windsor Locks, Suffield resident Heidi Partain moved the franchise in December into new quarters in the Webster Bank building on North Main Street.
The Hartford Business Journal teamed up with the Best Companies Group of Harrisburg, Pa., to rank the state’s top 41 employers. Companies named Best Places to Work in Connecticut for 2020 were divided into 14 large companies and 27 small or medium companies by the number of people they employ in Connecticut.
I once thought about living in a dollhouse when as a child I curled up in a comfy armchair to read The Borrowers by Mary Norton. The “borrowers” were a tiny family, who would have loved the miniature rugs and tapestries designed by Phyllis Stafford, instead of the paper rugs and postage stamps which adorned their floors and walls.
Suffield resident Jamie Deenihan reads from her new book, When Grandpa Gives You a Toolbox, holding the interest of a large crowd of interested children at Kent Memorial Library.
For one Suffield family, the first week in February was one they will never forget. On February 2, in London, native son Greg Butler, along with Guillaume Rocheron and Dominic Tuohy, won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for visual effects for their work on the WWI film 1917.