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🌱 Patch AM: New Independent School Preparing To Open In West Suffield
Coming up: Gathering at Summer's Edge on the Suffield Patch calendar
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In today's newsletter:
- Tiny new West Suffield school offers project-based and hybrid learning
- How UConn students are reshaping outdoor spaces at Suffield's state prison
Also on today's calendar: The King House Museum & Barn.
Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 81 and low of 60 degrees.
- Saturday: Mostly cloudy, showers around, temps: high: 71, low: 62.
- Sunday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 79 and low of 61 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• New Independent School Preparing To Open In West Suffield (patch.com) — Families in Suffield have a new education option as Hilltop Academy, a small independent nonprofit school on Mountain Road in West Suffield, prepares to open for the 2026-27 year. Founded by longtime educator and Suffield resident Gina Martin-Ryan, the school will offer project-based and outdoor learning, a hybrid program for homeschoolers, and rolling admissions for its first 15 to 18 students. 
• UConn Students Bring Landscape Design to Connecticut Correctional Facilities (uconn.edu) — Suffield's MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution is now part of a UConn-led effort to make Connecticut prisons healthier through better landscape design and more welcoming outdoor spaces. Landscape architecture students are redesigning courtyards, memorials, and staff areas with trees and flowers, while working closely with correctional officers and incarcerated residents to balance security needs with mental health and wellness benefits.
📸 Around Suffield
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Suffield
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★ Featured events ★
- Gathering at Summer's Edge →
Unicorn Meadow Farm, 1349 Spruce St, Suffield
10:00 am
Saturday August 29
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Other local events
- The King House Museum & Barn →
232 S Main St, Suffield
1:00 pm - Varsity Soccer @ Suffield Playday →
Suffield Academy, 185 N Main St, Suffield
12:00 pm
Saturday August 22
Wednesday September 9
📣 Suffield Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Climb, Slide, Repeat! →
Enfield, CT Calendar, 820 Enfield Street, Enfield
9:00 am - Phelps-Hatheway School of Floral Arts | Dahlias with Julie Harrison of Willow View Farm →
Phelps-Hatheway House, 55 S Main St, Suffield
9:00 am - TC/BOE Joint Security Special Meeting →
Enfield, CT Calendar Enfield, CT 06082
10:00 am - Psychic Medium Patty Griffin at Dance Kraze Dance Studio →
Dance Kraze Dance Studio, 585 Hazard Ave, Enfield
6:00 pm - 1/10 Scale Crawler Comp →
R/C Madness, 101 North St, Enfield
9:00 am - Turf USGP 2026 – Race 4 of 5 →
R/C Madness, 101 North St, Enfield
9:00 am - Town Council Public Hearing - Proposed Schools Modernization Appropriation →
Enfield, CT Calendar, 820 Enfield Street 1st Floor, Enfield
6:30 pm - Town Council Special Meeting →
Enfield, CT Calendar, 820 Enfield Street 1st Floor, Enfield
7:00 pm - Board of Education Regular Meeting
EAST GRANBY SCHOOL DISTRICT Town Hall
7:00 pm
Friday August 21
Saturday August 22
Sunday August 23
Monday August 24
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
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🗞 Nearby News
Windsor Locks
- O'Brien Tech high school football preview 2026 (thehour.com)
- Tidy Driver: 1965 Oldsmobile 442 (barnfinds.com)
Enfield
- Enfield Father Of 2 Young Children Fatally Shot: Report (patch.com)
- Enfield Panel Backs Cutting Blight Fine (patch.com)
Ok Suffield! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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