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Trees have both common and scientific names, such as Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus).
The Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association (SVAA) has been recognized on the national stage as the 2026 EMS Agency of the Year by the National EMS Management Association.
Many of us have been watching the restoration/rebuilding of Memorial Hall on the campus of Suffield Academy. Who could fail to be fascinated by what appeared to be an old façade propped up by next to nothing?
Palmist Mary Fernandez-Sierra, left, is pictured after reading Cydonie Fukami’s fortune. She said “Cydonie’s future looks bright and adventurous in Suffield.”
If you’d like to make new friends and get involved in the community, join us on Tuesday, October 9 at 7 p.m. for the Friends of Suffield new member social meeting at the Suffield Senior Center.
Family, friends and many retired Spaulding School teachers gathered in the Spaulding library on September 12 to celebrate and hear about a book written by Carol Taylor, also a former teacher at the school.
If you enjoy a good ghost story as well as a fine romance, get ready for The Suffield Players Fall production of Ghost of a Chance by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus!
Through The Suffield Observer, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the Suffield community. My name is Mark Winzler, and I began service as the Interim Superintendent of the Suffield Schools on Thursday, August 23. I am a retired Connecticut Superintendent of Schools who, since retirement, has served ten times as Interim Superintendent in Connecticut school districts. I served in Granby, Berlin, Watertown, Rocky Hill, East Hampton, Columbia, Plymouth, Hebron, East Hampton (a second time), and Torrington prior to coming to Suffield. Since retirement, I also served two other districts (Windsor and Manchester) as the Interim Director of Human Resources.
The persistent heat and humidity didn’t keep the crowds away from Farm Fest this year, when parking attendants counted 850 cars visiting the Labor Day event.
Suffield is well-known for its annual traditions, but have you made it to Scare-It-Up-Suffield yet?
The Kent Memorial Library is honoring our hero volunteer who is a proud recycler and plant lover.
For more information or to register for programs, stop by the library, call 860-668-3896, check suffield-library.org, or follow us on Facebook. All of our programs are free!
Seating is limited at 61 Ffyler Place. Please register for a showing at 860-668-3896.
The month of October is full of contests and free programming for Teens grades 6-12 thanks to the Friends of Kent Memorial Library. All programs are at 61 Ffyler Place unless specified. Please register at suffield-library.org
Stock Market Game for Kids
Ka-ching! Beginning October 1, Suffield Middle School and High School students can sign up to play the Stock Market Game. The Connecticut Stock Market Game is sponsored by SIFMA (Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association).
Pair up your child with a caring, teen reading mentor! Reading Buddies is not instruction, but rather a chance for kids to connect over the love of a good book.
Some libraries have shelves of mysteries, and some are mysteriously haunted. In Connecticut, the most haunted library is in Deep River.
Farmhands load a few more lath on the rack, to be hauled off to be hung. On August 30, the Nowak farm crew had nearly finished cutting the broadleaf on the Mountain Road field west of the Goodyear greenhouses.
That’s Ray Bugbee behind the counter of O. C. Bugbee & Son, the general store next door to the West Suffield Congregational Church, probably in the mid-1930s.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Town Historian Lester Smith.
At least twice during a few days in September, this juvenile bald eagle was seen loitering on a residential street in Suffield center, a surprising view for early morning walkers or motorists.
The Town of Suffield unveils a community calendar as a new feature within its website (www.suffieldct.gov). The calendar allows for posting of events in a common location and advertisement community-wide.
The name “Ellsworth” has cropped up a couple of times on my family tree as a middle or first name, and this made me wonder if we had a yet undiscovered Ellsworth line of ancestors.