The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/34/)
On Monday, March 4, a new way to generate some income from your property was introduced. Launching from Suffield, Events at HOME (your dream home for your dream day) offers homeowners the opportunity to rent out their private land, house or barn for weddings, events and corporate gatherings a few times per year.
With the wrangling on how to correct the project’s problems settled, construction work on the new Broad Brook Brewery on South Street resumed over a month ago after a delay of almost a year. The recent work has been inside, not apparent to passers-by.
Nadine Barletta of Windsor Federal Savings in Windsor, Connecticut, attended the American Bankers Association’s (ABA) Emerging Leaders Forum on April 1 in Washington, D.C.
Craig Cooke, a Suffield resident, has been named the 2019 Outstanding School Superintendent by the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education Alumni Board. Cooke was recognized on March 16 at the Neag School’s 21st Annual Alumni Awards Celebration in Storrs, Conn.
May 4 is quickly approaching. It will be 13 years since CPL Stephen R.
Jamie Deenihan was a teacher and has always loved children and writing. She babysat for my grandchildren, and they loved her.
Suffield’s Kate Butler taught in Manchester briefly after her studies at Eastern Connecticut State University (Class of 2017) focused on education and history, but she decided to follow in the family footsteps and is now a “fourth generation crime fighter.” That’s the inscription in the nice shadow box her father, Matt Butler, presented to her shortly after her graduation from the Hartford Police Academy as a new hire of the Hartford Police Department. The centerpiece of her father’s shadow box was his own badge as a Special Agent of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, from which he had retired as Agent in Charge of the NCIS Training Academy in Georgia after a long career in responsible NCIS positions all over the world.
The Doyon family and Kyle Englander are hosting a 5K and 10K Memorial Road Race in memory of ET2 Dustin L. Doyon of the United States Navy, who lost his life while serving on the USS John S. McCain on August 21, 2017.
When I hear the term “a life well lived,” I often wonder what the speaker means by those words. When I think of Mary Anne Zak, who turned 90 a few days ago, I don’t have to wonder; all who know her can attest to her life, well lived—and it’s not over yet!
Hits & Kicks, a Suffield physical fitness studio that specializes in boxing and kick-boxing, has moved to a new, more visible, location in the old CVS plaza between Zantos and Hair Unlimited. The vigorous training is provided by skilled instructors in scheduled, unisex classes.