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🌱 Patch AM: Suffield Academy Welcomes 8 New Faculty Members

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Cheers Suffield! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Suffield Academy adds new leaders, teachers, and coaches for fall
  • What's changed in the seven-home South Grand Street proposal?

Also on today's calendar: Varsity Soccer vs. St George School.

Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Sunshine and less humid, with a high of 79 and low of 56 degrees.
  • Sunday: A stray afternoon t-shower, temps: high: 82, low: 64.
  • Monday: An afternoon shower or two, with a high of 81 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Suffield Academy Welcomes 8 New Faculty Members (patch.com) — Suffield Academy is starting the 2026-27 year by welcoming eight new faculty and staff members, including head of school-elect Casey Bobo, who will assume leadership in 2027. Several returning alumni and educators will bolster academics, athletics, and student life, with new hires in science, math, administration, and football coaching all shaping the Suffield campus community.
   

• Denied 7-Home Suffield Plan Returns For New Hearing (patch.com) — A revised plan to build seven single-family homes on South Grand Street is back before Suffield's Conservation Commission, with a new public hearing set for Sept. 22. After an earlier version was denied over wetlands, drainage and septic concerns, commissioners will now review updated plans that could shape development and open space near a potential vernal pool and donated conservation land.
   

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Windsor Locks

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Enfield

  • Enfield Set To Receive $216K To Help Residents In Need (patch.com)

Granby

  • Granby Pension Nears Full Funding; Retiree Health Fund Has $5M Gap (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A bottle (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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