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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.
After seven meaningful years, this year’s Run for Dustin will be our final race.
If you are tired of paying high cable TV prices then you might want to consider switching to an internet streaming service.
Over the past twenty-five years the Observer has covered many stories about local people, events and businesses. The following are some of the headline stories from our issues over the past 25 years.
The Assessor’s office administers the Elderly/Totally Disabled Homeowner’s program annually.
After a few weeks of above average temperatures, we have been brought back to reality with a snow-filled reminder that there are still a few more weeks until it is officially spring.
One of the businesses residing inside the 68 Bridge Street Building is Stone Insurance of Suffield, LLC, located in Suite 207.
Suffield Police Activity Report – January 2024
Suffield Fire Department Incident Report January 2024
The month of March brings thoughts of windy weather and cleaning up of winter blowdown of twigs and branches and trees.
The scene had such a dreamlike quality that I should’ve known something was amiss.
What an Interesting Find
Photo By Joan Heffernan A Spring mushroom on the damp and muddy March trail. Spring is Coming! Photo by Joan Heffernan The ruffles of a daffodil
First Bloom of Spring
Photo by Joan Heffernan Crocus opens to the sun
Look Up! Photo by Joan Heffernan Late winter trees await their buds.
The Observer team would like to thank those readers who took the time to respond to the survey that was published over the last few editions.
The stock market and housing prices are at all-time highs and economic growth and unemployment signal a strong economy.
I wanted to take a moment to highlight a really great community service initiative that the SHS Boys Basketball program recently completed to benefit Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) and to discuss how others can donate to this great cause.
This Friday, Saturday or Sunday, drive 40 minutes to Winsted, one of Connecticut’s oldest mill towns.
Flowers Are Better Than Bullets By Rod Dillman Kindle Edition 364 pages 2023
This book was written, and apparently self-published, by a former resident of Suffield. It is a debut novel and a book of great emotional strength. Its power derives from the author’s passion for telling his story, which one suspects is grounded in personal experience. It is essentially the story of what happened at Kent State University during the Vietnam War, the shooting of several students who were engaged in a protest against the war, killing four and maiming nine others. If Rod Dillman was not a student at Kent State during this period, then he deserves all the more credit for portraying it so convincingly.
