The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/peoplebusiness/page/38/)
To say Ralph Sweet danced his way through UConn School of Engineering would falsify. But there were mornings when instructors could not wake him up because he had been out square dancing the night before.
A guardian angel and an attentive dog stand watch over the graves in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, on Hill Street, as the roof of the giant barn close behind is shingled.
The parted pieces fly as the ceremonial ribbon is cut, celebrating the opening of Brook Hill Village apartments.
High up on their man-lift, two steel erectors from PDS Engineering Design and Construction bolt another roof beam to its post.
Feather & Bloom has reopened at 122 Mountain Road. It is near Windsor Federal Savings and The Second Chance Shop.
PeoplesBancorp, MHC, the parent company of PeoplesBank, both of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and First Suffield Financial, Inc., the parent company of The First National Bank of Suffield, Connecticut, jointly announced on July 17 that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for PeoplesBancorp to acquire First Suffield Financial and PeoplesBank to acquire The First National Bank of Suffield.
Greg Hall will be releasing a new album with a concert at Gateway Arts in Holyoke. He is a folk songwriter and his music resonates with people who enjoy both classic country and the modern singer songwriter.
Winners pictured, with 57 strokes in the five-player Scramble at Oakridge Country Club, are, from the left: Jason Abate, Ken Eilers, Beth Eilers, Bill McCarthy and Matt McCarthy
For the second year, Suffield by the River has granted the Althea Scheller Scholarship to one of the senior living community’s staff. This year the recipient is Antonia Reynolds, who came to the center in 2004 as an aide and has since become a licensed practical nurse.
The Suffield High School Class of 1946 was among the first classes that spent all four years in Suffield’s first high school (now McAlister Intermediate School). A surprising number of the Class of ’46 live hereabouts, and they’ve been meeting annually for many years, lately through the efforts of original class secretary Dorothy DeForge.