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The DeSimone Family Trust, established by long time past Suffield residents Jerry and RoseMarie DeSimone have donated $2.5 million dollars to support a neonatology intensive care facility and services in the newly built tower at Connecticut Children’s.
The Kid Governor program is a national award-winning civics program for 5th grade students created by the Connecticut Democracy Center. Following an October campaign, 5th grader Nathan Deenihan was selected as the McAlister Intermediate School candidate for the position of Connecticut Kid Governor
Our Suffield Regional FFA Chapter’s annual Holiday Sale fundraiser will begin on Tuesday, November 30 and run through Friday, December 3 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Through the generosity of a grant from the Suffield Foundation for Excellent Schools, and collaboration between Allison Daly, special education teacher, and Morgan O’Malley, special education paraprofessional, the Coffee Cart project was established in 2017 at Suffield High School.
As part of the fifth-grade journalism unit at McAlister Intermediate School over the past three years, representatives from The Suffield Observer have been invited to speak to the students about what it takes to put together a monthly paper and how getting something written might actually happen. This year, on a beautiful October day, the fifth-grade students were gathered on the tennis courts behind the school to allow for social distancing and a speaker system was set up.
“Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, and living to serve.”
Congratulations to Ava Yunis who was chosen as the Rotary Student of the Month for November.
The Lincoln Highway was a route that ran from the East Coast to California. This tale starts in Nebraska.
The Suffield Cooperative Preschool students and their families celebrated safely at the school’s annual Halloween Costume Party.
If every town has a story, then it stands to reason it must have a history. It is easy to dismiss the day-to-day happenings of a small town as inconsequential, but string those events together, and a picture develops of a place that people call home.