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The John Sullivan & Son Tobacco Farm was started by my grandfather, John L. Sullivan.
On Sunday, February 9 at Suffield’s Third Baptist Church, many gathered to remember and celebrate the life and teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
These last elections have touched me in a different way as I looked around me on Election Day.
As you drive around Suffield, not only will you see the trees budding and flowers blooming but you will see many local farm stands opening their “doors” or setting up their stands at the end of their driveways to sell their local treasures.
It’s been a long haul, if you count all the early discussions of new office layouts or new building designs, but the continuing need for improved quarters for the Town Hall staff persisted, and the happy end of the struggle has arrived.
The Suffield Garden Club members cordially invite you to celebrate spring with us by visiting our 43rd Annual May Market. Stroll through the Phelps-Hatheway yard and barn to see many different and delightful offerings.
After an absence of 17 years, the Calvenese family is returning to the kitchen at the Suffield Country Club. Head Chef Vinnie Calvenese has been working diligently for the past two months ordering equipment and setting up the kitchen at the facility which will be called 341 North Main Street Grill and be open to the public.
The wait is over! Broad Brook Brewery Company (BBBC) has again teamed with Driving For A Cure & Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support childhood cancer research with a fresh batch of Alex’s Summer Daze Lemon Weisse.
In 2019 I was at an informational session put on by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for details about the Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund. The crowd members were asked what their community’s strongest asset was.
Charles “Jay” Beyer is enthusiastic about working at Edward Jones Financial Advisors. Charles states that “he is looking forward to meeting with individuals in Suffield to help them meet their financial goals.”
Suffield Rotarians are inherently social creatures and enjoy meeting regularly to break bread with their colleagues. We initially learned that 2020 would be a much different type of year in mid-March 2020, when we were notified that all visitors were banned from entering Suffield by the River, where we were holding our dinner meetings at the time.
Suffield Community Aid is opening, by appointment, on May 3! After more than a year of working inside our locked doors, we are reopening to allow in-office visits.
I know exactly where I was when I saw my first scarlet tanager. I had been visiting my grandmother in Glastonbury and had spent the day exploring the brook and the ruins of the old gunpowder mill which was later used to process cotton, both around the corner from her house.
Suffield Woman’s Club is pleased to announce the awarding of Honorary Membership to 67-year member Phyllis Stafford.
Suffield Woman’s Club (SWC) is delighted to be back together again on May 11 for their annual meeting and luncheon at 11 a.m. at Father Ted Hall. Come meet friends, old and new.
Julio Figueroa has been promoted to Assistant Vice President – Security Officer at Windsor Federal, headquartered in Windsor.
Emile Backes, a well-known face around Suffield, has recently had a book of his poetry published. It is for sale at Feather and Bloom in Suffield’s Mountain Road Market Place.
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has established a $100,000 Greater Together Community Fund for the Town of Suffield. In 2019, the Hartford Foundation established a Greater Together Community Fund in each of the 29 towns within the Foundation’s region to support residents in taking ownership around the needs in their towns, encourage broad and inclusive civic engagement and anchor the Foundation in each town.
You may have noticed the beautiful “READ!” murals adorning the Kent Memorial Library windows!
The Friends of Kent Memorial Library will resume monthly book collections on Saturday May 1 from 10 a.m. to noon in the lower lobby of Kent Memorial Library.
There’s nothing quite like fresh air and sunshine to get the staff at KML motivated! While our usual programming continues, we are sprinkling in a few new opportunities for kids and adults.
