Another Norfolk Drug Bust
Acting on a tip, state police stopped a car on Route 44 in Norfolk driven by Karen Nejaime, who was on probation following last year’s drug bust at 10 Ashpohtag Road, and charged her with numerous drug offenses, including possession of crack cocaine. Bail was set at $150,000…

A Norfolk Startup in Winsted
Norfolk’s Edmond Tremblay has launched the Winchester Coffee House on the site of the defunct Café 64 in Winsted, serving organic free trade Nicaraguan coffee and Harney teas…

Norfolk at the Movies
Edie and Dave Hofstatter of Greenwoods Road West, who have previously been cast as extras in “The Departed” and “Aquarium”, have appeared in another major film project as extras in “For One More Day,” an Oprah Winfrey Presents production that premiered on December 9 on ABC…

End Of an Era
Two respected retailers in the area are folding. After 45 years of providing clothing of all kinds to many Norfolk customers, Bob Drucker, always helpful and never pushy, has finally closed the doors of Bob’s Clothing & Shoes in Canaan. A few doors up from the Warner Theater in Torrington, Spino’s Men’s Wear, which was founded in 1979 and provided many a rental tuxedo for Norfolk proms and weddings, will give way in February to a new brew café…

NVFD to the Rescue
Norfolk’s volunteer firefighters drew thanks and praise from Botelle head custodian Leo Colwell after preventing a 500-gallon spill out of a home heating oil delivery truck from fouling the brook behind the school…

Paul Newman’s Own
The American Mural Project, which aims to mount the largest piece of indoor artwork in the U.S. in an empty Winsted mill, received a big boost with a $500,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation, which described the mural as exemplifying “the aspirations of all Americans…”

Larry Leifert Gets Behind Paul Newman
In turn, Paul Newman, 83 this month, got an important boost from Norfolk’s Larry Leifert, who was his engine chief when Newman swept the field in the GT1 event at the North American Road Racing Championship Runoffs at Lime Rock…

Vote For a Float
The Norfolk Lions Club has voted to sponsor a float at the town’s 250th anniversary parade in August and also staff a food stand on the Village Green…

A Glutton for Punishment?

As if once, twice, even three times wasn’t arduous enough for Schuyler Thomson, the Region 7 Board of Education has elected him chairman of the board for a fourth three-year term…

–Compiled by Lloyd Garrison