Government/Town

Senior Center & Mini Bus News

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While encouraging people to be grateful is great, being grateful together is much more powerful and effective. When we collaborate with loved ones or friends, it benefits everyone.

Organizations

Suffield Woman’s Club News

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The members of the Suffield Woman’s Club (SWC) voted last year to purchase a new sound system for the Town. This was in response to members attending the Town’s outdoor occasions such as the Memorial Day and Veterans Day events and not being able to enjoy the service due to a poor sound system. This past Veterans Day was the first time the new system was used and it made a world of difference. It is the Club’s hope that many more people will attend these services because now they can hear what is being sung and said. The SWC would like to thank Facilities Manager Chris Matejek and Highway Department Foreman Mark Cervione for their help with this project.

Government/Town

Parks & Rec News

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The ice and snow of our early winter weather could not put a damper or contain the holiday spirit of the Suffield Parks and Recreation Department’s Bowling Buddies Holiday Party that was held at the Suffield Country Club on Monday, December 23.

Organizations

Reflecting on the Holiday House Tour

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The Suffield Garden Club had a successful tour of our beloved historic Main Street homes this past holiday season to be sure. The street was bustling with activity and holiday spirit. Thank you to those who shared their homes and to our own Garden Club members for their creativity and hard work. Suffield Hardware, the Police Cadets, the Senior Minibus and the Highway Department all contributed to the success of the event. During this winter season, we’ll begin planning for a series of projects that we have just raised funds for.

People/Business

Unique Floral Shop Has New Owner

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“Ebullient” is a word that describes Sarah Parlos, the new owner of Pentimento, the floral shop on South Main Street. The word means, “cheerful and full of energy.” This was the clear impression I had during our recent interview. As owner of another floral design business in Avon,  Sarah  has both  design experience and business savvy.    Nevertheless she plans to maintain the same ambience with which customers are acquainted. Former owners Paula Gallo and her sister Tamara Pezzente, were able to spend time with Sarah, describing the vendors used, accompanying her on a weekly trip to the Boston Flower Market for the very best blooms, and demonstrating the special and unique floral style for which Pentimento has been known. Pentimento’s new owner, Sarah Parlos, pictured here with white roses, intends to maintain the special spirit of the South Main Street shop.

Farming/Nature

Winter Blues

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These wintry days I am dreaming of the ocean. Days with my feet in the sand listening to the lapping of waves and casting my eyes on that big expanse of ocean until it merges with the sky. Naturally the conversation, whether it is just in my head or shared with others, turns to the ocean’s shade of blue. It is easy to draw folks into this discussion and very difficult to reach a consensus. Is the sea royal or navy, topaz, azure or aquamarine?

Organizations

DAR Workshop

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The Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter (Suffield) of The Daughters of The American Revolution (DAR) will sponsor a workshop to assist individuals starting a genealogical search or continuing to gather information about their ancestry, to be held in the training room of the Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association, 205 Bridge Street, Suffield on Saturday, February 15 at 10 a.m.

People/Business

Andrew Returns

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As closing time approached and the crowd dwindled, Suzy and Jim Irwin had a chance to chat with Suffield’s popular cartoonist, Rick Stromoski, who offered his original art work at the SMS Christmas Boutique on December 12. Among other projects, Rick is now offering Andrew’s Journal, an online publication of “Special insights into a special little boy.” Remember Andrew in Soup2Nuts?

Library

Friends Book Collection Cancelled for February

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The Friends of the Library are sorry to announce that the February 1st book collection is cancelled because our storage space at 230c Mountain Road is full. We are so grateful for all of the wonderful donations that we have received thus far, and hope that those of you who planned to donate books will save them until we have additional storage space. We need to find space to store donated books so that we can resume our monthly book collections soon, hopefully on March 7. If you have or know someone who has a clean, dry, accessible (few or no stairs) space about 8’ x 10’ or larger, we would love to hear from you. Without storage space, we are effectively done collecting for this year, so PLEASE HELP!!!

Library

KML General Programs

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All of our programs are free, and we have fixings for coffee and tea in the library café area. $1 per cup.

Library

Teen Programs

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Sign up for Winter Reading and earn raffle tickets each week you sign in at the library. No need to count minutes or hours or even books. Just pop in and fill out a raffle ticket each week.