View From the Green: Girding For Change
By Lloyd Garrison With January behind us and still no snow on the ground, there is an unsettling sense of change in the air, and it is not just the weather. A cursory glance at the two headlines to the right portend some big challenges ahead for Norfolk in 2007. Tom McGowan, for one, […]
Town Ready to Bid on Greenwoods Theater Building
Uncertainty clouds the auction set for February 3 By Bob Bumcrot Barring last-minute legal maneuvers, the “foreclosure by sale” of the Greenwoods Theater Building will take place at noon on Saturday, February 3. The date was set by Superior Court Judge John Pickard in his judgement favoring the Town of Norfolk v. Greenwoods Associates, […]
Norfolk Tea and Trading Co. to close on April 28
Antique store next door weighing options By Lloyd Garrison In a blow to the already shaky state of retail business in downtown Norfolk, the shop owned by Tom and Celia McGowan at 6 Station Place will close its doors when its lease expires April 30. A decision on whether to close is still pending […]
Winter, You Say? What Winter?
Taking stock of the warm, wet weather and lack of snow By Sally Quale With several residents reporting their ____ have bloomed, it comes as no surprise that Norfolk is experiencing one of the mildest and wettest winters on record. Perhaps the best example of this atypical winter weather came on Saturday, January 6, […]
Way to go, Norfolk Curlers!
A women’s team from the Norfolk Curling Club won the annual Empire State Bonspiel which was held this year at the Ardsley Curling Club in Westchester County, N.Y. The team, shown above (l to r), comprised Veronica Burns, Vickie Brown, Deborah Lane-Olson, who was captain, and Ann Tierney. They played a total of seven games, […]
Town Gets $8,500 Grant For Future Farmers Market
State Responds to request from Economic Development Commission By Robert Pam The Connecticut Department of Agriculture has awarded Norfolk’s Economic Development Commission (EDC), a grant of $8,500 to support a farmers market in Norfolk over the next two summers. The EDC’s grant proposal called for staging markets over 15 consecutive Saturdays each season, starting […]
Blackberry Farm Barn Burned to the Ground in a “Live Fire” Exercise
Blaze deliberately set by Norfolk and North Canaan firefighters By Bob Bumcrot Flames lit the sky on the morning of January 15 as the old Blackberry Farm barn was burned to the ground in a “live fire” exercise conducted by the fire departments of Norfolk and North Canaan. Additional firefighters came from Lakeville, […]
Architect Chosen For New EMS Facility
Building to house ambulance, state police By Lloyd Garrison The town committee overseeing the building of a new home for both the ambulance and the resident state trooper has chosen Robert Lamson of Barkhamsted to be the architect. Lamson, who is already known to town officials for his work on installing new windows at […]
Selectman’s Corner—February 2007
By Sue Dyer The General Assembly has begun its session in Hartford, and the Litchfield Hills Council of Executive Officials has met with our area representatives, including Sen. Ted Herlihy ® , and Rep. George Wilbur (D), who represent Norfolk, and presented to them our leading concerns. Foremost on the list is to increase […]
Norfolk’s December 2006 Weather
An Unusually Mild Winter By Russell Russ Here are the weather highlights from December as recorded at Norfolk’s National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Observer Station, Norfolk 2 SW, by the Great Mountain Forest Corporation. We got a quick taste of some cold weather during the first full week of the month. A wind chill […]
