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As part of Suffield’s America 250 celebration, the Suffield Tree Committee planted a native red oak on the lawn between Kent Memorial Library and the town’s Veterans Memorial this April.
When Suffield native Brian Gauthier graduated from college and had time to spare, a town appeal for volunteer firefighters caught his attention.
As I was reviewing the articles for this month’s issue, I was struck by two in particular; the speech by the three students at the dedication of the Liberty Tree and the article on the air museum.
It’s 10:15 a.m. on a chilly Friday in April as George Rodgers climbs 50 steps on four worn staircases, most at right angles to one another, to reach the tower clock in First Church on High Street in the center.
Now in its 18th year, Team Driving For a Cure, a local non-profit, is committed to help find treatments and cures for all cancers.
West Hartford nonprofit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut announced that Hartford architect Ted Cutler has received the youth mentoring organization’s 2024 Visionary Leader Award.
Everyone is welcome to attend a Witness Stone Installation ceremony for Old Ti, also known as Titus Kent.
When you see the merry yellow and white striped tents next to the Hatheway House barn, you know it’s time for May Market!
Still sitting on a motherlode of hostess gifts from your holiday party that you’ll never get away with regifting?
March Madness is an exhilarating time for basketball fans all over the world.
After its annual winter rest, the Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden, 55 South Main Street, will open for its 52nd season on May 4, 2024.
The public is invited to an Artist Reception for Suffield artist Laurie Tavino Friday, May 3.
Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
This is a startling book. For those of us in an older generation, it will be uncomfortable. It is skillfully written, though certainly not a Pulitzer Prize winner, portraying an event and its aftermath in the lives of three 18-year-olds. The girls have just graduated from high school and are spending the summer in Greece, at the vacation home of one of their families. The narrator, Bess, is the least affluent and the least confident of the trio, cursed in a sense with an overactive conscience.
The Suffield Observer Board of Directors will sponsor two scholarships to Suffield residents who will be entering an accredited two or four-year college in September 2024.
Some Observer volunteers celebrated Carol Martin’s 90th birthday on April 12th.
The Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Association Awards Banquet was held on March 23, 2024.
Suffield’s Farmers Market begins its 2024 summer season on Saturday, June 22.
This year the tag sale at Academy Hall in West Suffield will be held on Saturday, May 11.
The Suffield Athletic Hall of Fame (SAHOF) Committee has endured some difficult times over the last several years.
