Schools/Sports
National Honor Society Induction
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Seventeen new students were inducted into the National Honor Society at Suffield High School joining the 38 current members.
Bringing Endless Joy to Kids: a 43-year-old Tribute
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The next time you visit Kent Memorial Library and hear giggling from the children’s department, it could be from kids transfixed by a puppet show.
7th Annual Dustin Doyon Memorial Road Race
After seven meaningful years, this year’s Run for Dustin will be our final race.
Cut the Cord
If you are tired of paying high cable TV prices then you might want to consider switching to an internet streaming service.
Schools/Sports
SHS Valedictorian and Salutatorian Named
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Congratulations to both of these outstanding students for their tremendous accomplishments.
Schools/Sports
Science Fair Club Shines
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This year 25 students joined the Science Fair Club, a new record for the activity, which is in its fifth year at Suffield High School –its first year when seventh and eighth graders could join, as well as high schoolers.
Schools/Sports
Spaulding Art Festival a Shining Success!
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The 32nd annual A. Ward Spaulding School Art Festival opened to the public on Thursday, April 6.
Organizations
Suffield Lions’ Childrens Vision Screening
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The Suffield Lions Club partnered with the Emergency Aid Association staff and volunteers to conduct “KidSight USA” vision screening in Suffield’s pre-schools, elementary school, middle school and intermediate school during the week of March 27.
Schools/Sports
National Geographic State Bee Semifinalist
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Nicholas Sickman, son of Marie and Derek Sickman, an eighth- grade student at Suffield Middle School, has been notified by the National Geographic Society that he is one of the semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2017 Connecticut National Geographic State Bee.
Library
Anything Goes Short Story Winners
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Some of the winners of the library’s Anything Goes Short Story Contest are pictured at the Suffield Senior Center on Saturday, April 8, where they read their winning stories.
Library
Library Project Update, Plans Coalesce
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Suffield’s Permanent Building Commission regularly meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month, but they added a special meeting on April 12 to hear consultant Robert May describe the plans now beginning to take shape for remediating the PCB contamination at Kent Memorial Library.
Library
May Movies
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Seating is limited at 61 Ffyler Place. Please register for a showing at 860-668-3896.
Library
Kent Memorial Library General Programs
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For more information or to register for programs, stop by the library, call 860-668-3896, check our website at www.suffield-library.org, or follow us on Facebook.
Library
Kent Memorial Library Youth Programs
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Register on our website at www.suffield-library.org or call the library at 860-668-3896. We are located at a temporary facility located at 61 Ffyler Place.
Director’s Corner
Is the End Nigh?
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Some people believe an apocalypse is imminent. But the thought is not new.
History
Colonial Doctors: More Hurt than Help?
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The public is invited to the Senior Center on May 17 at 7 p.m. to hear Gordon Kenneson speak at the Suffield Historical Society’s May meeting.
Organizations
Academy Hall Open for Rental
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The Academy Hall, located at 1499 Mountain Road, West Suffield, is available to rent.
History
Bus Trip to Harvard Square
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The Suffield Historical Society invites you to join members on Saturday, June 3 for a trip to Cambridge to visit the Fogg Art Museum and/or the Natural History Museum.
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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Suffield’s May Breakfast at Mapleton Hall was a popular spring event, attracting many hundreds of hungry diners throughout the big day in the last decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th, especially after the trolley came through Mapleton Avenue in 1902.
History
100 Years Ago in Suffield
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From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
Through the Looking Glass
On Reincarnation
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I have never seriously believed in reincarnation, but it is an idea I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with.