The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/page/329/)
This year’s Suffield on the Green had the feel of a typical fall weekend, however there was some rain on both Saturday and Sunday that closed the SOTG early at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, although, the sun did eventually come out on Sunday. The crowds, crafters, musicians, local charities and food booths were resilient!!!
Following the big two-day task of setting the six long beams in place in early September, effort focused on building forms and installing rebar for the concrete deck and the important structures at the beams’ ends.
David DiPiero has been promoted to Vice President, Compliance Office at Windsor Federal. He joined Windsor Federal in 2005 as Compliance and Quality Asssurance Specialist with over nine years of prior work experience in banking and financial compliance.
Late in December 1983, an antique sideboard along with other furniture stood outside in the snow in front of the King House Museum following a fire in the museum. Many of the rugs, Civil War artifacts, pottery, dishware and furnishings survived, including the sideboard.
The Connecticut Department of Corrections has decided to move their Covid-19 Isolation Unit from Somers to MacDougall-Walker.
Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
On April 30, 1988, the Scouts of Troop 260 pose for a casual portrait in Sunrise Park during the troop’s traditional spring weekend campout, when the “newbies” are introduced to troop camping by the older, experienced campers and the adult leaders.
In an old South Grand Street warehouse on October 13, with First Selectman Melissa Mack at the left, Gov. Lamont speaks to dignitaries and the press before signing a new bill designed to help the local hemp industry.
1. What was the trouble that the mother of Joseph Seger, one of Suffield’s original proprietors, had in Hartford in the 1660s?
Renovation work is reported to be making good progress at the Suffield Town Hall, a great deal of it taking place inside, out of sight. The October 15 meeting of the Permanent Building Commission, which was held in a hybrid fashion with several members together at the West Suffield Fire Station and others participating by Zoom, heard Gilbane Construction project manager Jonathan Moulton review the work.