Schools/Sports
Superintendent’s Briefing
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After what I hope was a relaxing and enjoyable summer for the entire community, the schools are now fully engaged in teaching and learning for students and staff.
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.
People/Business
Long-time Scouter Honored
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Retired Boy Scout volunteer Lester Smith is pictured smiling with the award plaque and the special engineer’s cap he was given at a Troop 260 Family Night.
Organizations
Pasta Dinner
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The Suffield PMC Kids Ride, held in the spring, is offering a pasta dinner on September 17 at Sacred Heart’s Father Ted Hall: 5 to 8 p.m., great raffle, live music, lots of fun. $10 adults, $5 kids under 12, under 5 free.
Government/Town
National Public Lands Day
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National Public Lands Day is celebrated annually on Saturday, September 24 at public lands throughout the United States.
Farming/Nature
… For amber waves of grain
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A Markowski farmhand maneuvers a big combine barely fitting under the wires of a shade tobacco field on Babb’s Road in mid-July.
Organizations
Ice Cream Social Draws Happy Picnickers
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Paul Kulas, former first selectman and retired innkeeper, leans into the music as he entertains the crowd at the Suffield Historical Society’s annual ice cream social.
Farming/Nature
The Busy Life of the Insomniac
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I come from a long line of insomniacs. Growing up, after tossing and turning for hours, my dad would make at least one nightly pilgrimage into the kitchen in search of a little snack to help him sleep.
Library
KML General Programs
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Climatologists say it was the hottest summer on record and the staff at the Kent Memorial Library agree.
Government/Town
Scare-it-up-Suffield!
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The Suffield Parks & Recreation Department, Kent Memorial Library, Suffield Senior Center & Mini Bus, and Suffield Youth Services have collaborated on this town-wide Halloween harvest themed event which will be held at the Senior Center on Saturday, October 22.
Library
Library Delayed, Will Move Again
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Progress on a program to mitigate the PCB air contamination that has held up the reopening of the Kent Memorial Library was put on hold pending the successful completion of ventilation air balance tests.
Library
Got Books?
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The Friends of Kent Memorial Library will sponsor our 46th annual book sale this year located again in Father Ted Hall at Sacred Heart Church on Mountain Road the weekend of Suffield on the Green.
Library
Youth Programs
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For more information please call the library at 860-668-3896. All programs are free.
Director’s Corner
Holding on to the Period
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I was shocked this summer when The New York Times reported that the use of the period (.) has ended Can you imagine the consequences?
History
Check Your Weight, Free
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Volunteer Jim Reeves installs the last screw in the big platform scale now restored and reassembled in the King House Museum barn.
History
Gravestones Explored
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The Suffield Historical Society will begin its 2016-17 season on Wednesday, September 28 with guest lecturer Ruth Shapleigh-Brown.
History
A Moment in Time: Old Photos Invited from Our Readers
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This old postcard photo, taken around 1900, shows the West Suffield Congregational Church at the corner of Mountain Road and North Grand Street.
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
Letting Go of Defensiveness
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The work of Eckhart Tolle, especially his book The Power of Now has had a slowly growing impact on how I think about human behavior, my own and that of other people.
People/Business
Local Playwright Stages Annie Sullivan’s Story
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Lyle Pearsons, formerly a Suffield resident and briefly a second-grade teacher at Bridge Street School, has enjoyed the last 25 years operating Kit & Kaboodle at the Red Door Theater of the Hope Community Church in Agawam.