Organizations

Celebrating Summer Gardens, A Tour

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A highlight of the summer season, Suffield Garden Club is presenting a garden tour, “Celebrating Summer Gardens,” on July 16 from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Five private gardens about town and the gardens of the historic Hatheway House and Hilltop Farm will be open to visitors. The tour will feature unique gardens, such as a glorious two-acre property with walls of towering twelve-foot hydrangeas and hundreds of juniper, yew and boxwood. Walk about a five-acre property with gardens complemented with flea market finds and lots of imagination. Visit a three-quarter acre property with features that include a garden with a 5-foot apple tree, a 16-foot squirrel-proof birdhouse and a special fireplace and pergola. Hatheway’s sixty-year-old perennial garden will be in brilliant bloom, and Hilltop’s gardens will show you what plants to use to benefit butterflies and birds.

Library

The Historical Room at KML

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Inside the Kent Memorial Library is a special collection housed in the Historical Room.

Library

KML General Programs

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Friday, July 1, 2 p.m. Movie: Matt (Kevin Hart) finds himself raising his daughter alone when his wife dies the day after their daughter’s birth. Comedy drama.Rated PG-13; 1 hour 49 minutes

Wednesday, July 6, 6:30 p.m. Arrowheads and Artifacts of Suffield and the Surrounding Area Have you ever found an arrowhead locally and wanted to learn more about it? Have you ever wanted to find one but just didn’t know where to begin? There are resources available to help identify the approximate age of most locally found arrowheads. Connecticut has been a home to people for more than 12,000 years, and there is a good chance that people have walked along the same fields or along the same riverbanks that we walk today.

Government/Town

Town Traffic Safety Study

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By Beth Chafetz with information from the Town website

Tigne and Bond was hired by the town to conduct a traffic and pedestrian safety study recently completed for the town. It recommends a number of improvements for local roads, including the realignment of intersections, installation of roundabouts, and the addition of stop signs, crosswalks, and crossing signals. The use of traffic data including crash data from previous years, field observations at locations all over town, and surveys of the public were used to inform the study. According to Karen Isherwood, Town Engineer, the town is planning to apply for a federal grant program, Safe Streets and Roads for All, which provides grants from $1 to $10 million. To be eligible, towns must have an action plan, a requirement that is filled by the traffic study.