Sandy Quadros Bowles
Correspondent
When Ryan and Bonnie Randell opened Fromagerie Madeline, they had a distinct goal.
“We wanted to open an Old World-style community cheese shop where we can know our customers by name,” Bonnie Randell said.
The shop offers a range of cheese products and items one would need to go along with them, including jellies, olives, crackers and pickles.
But they do more than sell cheese at the site. They also make the product in their upstairs creamery.
Local farmers deliver fresh milk to the creamery each Wednesday, which the couple use to make their own fresh cheese, mixing in salt and various flavors and draining out the whey.
Sutton reopenings continue
SUTTON With each week, more town in-person services are returning.
Town Hall and the Sutton library reopen Monday, May 10, Town Manager James Smith told Select Board members May 4.
The Senior Center reopens May 17, based on guidelines established by the health department and senior center staff. No meals will be served, but Meals on Wheels are still being delivered.
Masks will be required by staff in common areas and by anyone coming into Town Hall, the library or the senior center, he said. Hand sanitizer will be available.
Marion’s Camp Beach will be open to the public June 19 to Aug. 30, and on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-6. Swim lessons will be offered July 5-16 and July 19-30. Lifeguards will be on scene and portable toilets in place when the beach opens.
Sandy Quadros Bowles
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
SUTTON Kerrie Randell was sitting on her backyard patio in Sutton on April 20, a strong wind whirling around her, when she heard a crash.
She realized she likely heard tree limbs falling outside her home, which is on Central Turnpike near the Northbridge line. She decided to take a closer look.
What she found stunned her.
At the base of the tree sat a great horned owlet, staring right at her, surrounded by the ruins of its nest.
“It was absolutely amazing,’’ she said.
The bird was still in its down feathers, too young yet for its body feathers to grow in, and appeared soft and fuzzy.
Sandy Quadros Bowles
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
SUTTON Sutton High School principal Ted McCarthy said he is “very honored’’ to have been named the 2021-22 High School Principal of the Year by the Massachusetts School Administrators’ Association.
But as far as he is concerned, the entire school community deserves the recognition.
“It’s not a ‘me’ award,’’ he said. “It’s a ‘we’ award.’’
“I’m lucky to work with a great group of teachers and students,’’ he said. “I always say I have the best job in the world, and I do.’’
The award is presented to high school principals who “demonstrate exemplary skills in instructional leadership, supporting a safe learning environment and fostering a collaborative culture of shared decision making among all members of their school community,’’ according to material provided by the MSAA.