Organizations

Hilltop Farm Updates

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Although it may not be obvious, Hilltop Farm is now much closer to achieving our goal of being able to host events in our historic Big White Barn!

Government/Town

Another SHS Grad Becomes a Cop

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For the second time this year, a Suffield High School graduate has successfully completed the 31-week certification program at the Hartford Police Academy. Kristina Miner, daughter of Don and the late Deb Miner, celebrated her new graduation along with 28 fellow graduates at an impressive ceremony October 11 in the Aetna auditorium. She will now become a probationary police officer in the West Hartford Police Department. Kate Butler, SHS 2013,  completed her Hartford Police Academy program eight months ago (The Suffield Observer, April 2019), and is now a Hartford police officer. She followed an impressive family tradition of law enforcement and investigation from both her father and her mother.

Government/Town

To Buy or Not to Buy . . . .

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That is the question currently being asked about the street lights in Suffield. The Town is in the process of determining if it makes good fiscal sense to purchase them from Eversource. To answer that question, a Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued and a number of qualified companies responded. The Town contracted with ECG Engineers to represent their interests in the project. They work with towns and schools in support of self-funded Energy Performance Contract (EPC) energy and cost savings projects.

Food for Thought

Food For Thought

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“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe

Government/Town

East Street Paved, Finally

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By the end of September, the last visible task of the Connecticut DOT’s East Street paving project appeared to be complete. That was the task of rebuilding the little black-topped traffic island at the Enfield-Suffield bridge traffic light, separating northbound cars from left-turning traffic off the bridge. The bridge, incidentally, for almost 50 years carried two large bronze plaques reading “Enfield-Suffield Veterans Bridge,” but the plaques disappeared in the major rework of 2010, which included new parapets. Last spring, the milling and paving began, as most such projects do, with the renovation of the catch basins. But work came to a stop, probably for lack of funding to continue in that fiscal year.

Editorial

A Little of This and That

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Phones. So many people of a certain age – usually not elderly – have given up their landlines.

Op-Ed

How is our Town Doing?

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Election season is a great time of year to ‘check in’ with how our town is being run. What is working? What could be better? Are we growing in a positive way? Are we being run effectively?

Editorial

Volunteers at the Observer

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When people ask me what I am doing in my retirement, one of the first answers I give–proudly–is that I occasionally write for my town’s local newspaper, The Suffield Observer. I do it because I enjoy writing, and also because the very concept of a local volunteer newspaper pleases me. I love the fact that well over 100 of our friends and neighbors in Suffield give generously of their time to this paper. There is only one “regular” paid employee, and she is part time; she is assisted by a webmaster and a graphic designer who are even less part-time. All the rest of us are amateurs who enjoy being part of our community in this way.

Editorial

Suffield’s Proud History of Preservation

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Riding through Suffield Connecticut on a sunny fall day, one cannot help but be impressed by the stunning natural beauty of our town, from the stately and elegant sycamore trees lining historic Main Street to the open rich agricultural fields, recently groomed after harvest, and the vast open spaces, home to a large variety of native plants and wild life.