The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/page/2/)
For better or for worse, the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic are keeping us close to home and drawing families – two and four legged – together. How does this affect our pets?
In March of this year, when everyone went into lockdown because of the COVID pandemic, Dan Presser (a graduate of SHS) and his wife Beth, came up with Quarantine 2020 Productions, a creative and fun way to keep themselves and their two toddlers, Maddie and Barton, entertained and sane.
Due to COVID-19 all Connecticut registered voters have the choice of voting via absentee ballot or in person at the polling place on Election Day. Voters who were registered to vote in town as of August 26 were mailed absentee ballot applications.
This August has brought a school opening like no other. On August 31, we opened our doors, and our computers, to our students for the first day of school.
About 20 years ago, I volunteered for a political campaign and put a huge campaign sign on my West Hartford lawn. Before I knew it, my yard became a magnet for every other candidate’s lawn sign and it looked like a hodgepodge of political tag sales.
Suffield builder Elzear Roy, left, smiles for the camera with Steve Delaney.
The following table has been adapted from data provided by the Suffield Police Department.
One can glean much from the immense aerial map of Suffield which is hung on a wall of the barn at the King House Museum, the home of the Suffield Historical Society on South Main Street.
The Rotary motto is “Service above Self.” Rotarians are involved in many projects in our community, and in the world. Neither the community’s needs nor our commitment stops for a pandemic.
It was an impressive operation at the Remington Street Bridge project the first week of September. With the new east and west abutments ready to receive their load, and grading preparations on each shore complete, it was time for a giant crane to be set up and for the six beams to be delivered and lifted into place.
The Suffield Observer is looking for volunteers to work with InDesign (computer layout program). Having some computer skills is preferred, and training is available for anyone interested.
A substantial part of renovating of our almost sixty-year-old Town Hall was the selected demolition and hazardous material abatement that occupied most of August.
