New Emporium on the Road to Canaan
Three ventures under one roof By Lloyd Garrison A gray, largely windowless 10,000 square-foot commercial structure on Route 44 in East Canaan will showcase three businesses related to home building, renovation and home improvement. The building, which resembles a warehouse, was built along the shoulder of a once hilly pasture known locally known as […]
Library Lecture Centers on the Wily Coyote
Presentation a Howling Success By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The Norfolk Land Trust sponsored an illustrated lecture on Eastern Coyotes to kick off their 24th annual meeting. The talk, given by Dr. Jonathan G. Way, a field biologist and science educator, covered Way’s extensive research project on coyote behavior, both in the wild and in […]
Great Backyard Bird Count in Norfolk
Every February, the Great Backyard Bird Count is held to engage bird watchers in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. During this year’s count, held over the Presidents’ Day weekend, licensed bird bander Shelley Harms held a big banding day at her home. “We captured 61 […]
Decline in Enrollment Predicted for Norfolk Schools
Botelle and Regional 7 likely to follow region-wide trend By Sally Quale Nationwide, the number of school-aged children will remain static until 2015, at which point a gradual increase is predicted. That’s when the children of Generation Y (or the Echo Boomers) will be entering the school system. There will, however, be a change […]
It’s Only Natural—Threats To Our Forests
By Star Childs With all the recent hype and hoopla about human-induced global climate change, I am often asked what changes in the forested landscape are we seeing that might be attributed to human releases of greenhouse gasses? Right now, very little. But forest change occurs over centuries. Paleo-pollen studies done in Tobey Bog […]
Remembrance—The Clock
By Janice Gabelmann Here I am again (the clock). I’m back with a shorter message this month. It is about someone who knew me better than anyone that I can remember. It was sad for me when I heard that Alan Redford had died suddenly on January 9, 2007. The whole town was in […]
Letters
Greenwoods Theatre A lot of the information about me and about the Greenwoods Theatre’s continuing search and demand for due process in the assessments, appraisals and alleged tax bill in your last edition, is incorrect. I have never asserted that I thought the municipality wanted the building, but that the long, publicly established arena of […]
Local Group Offers Scholarships
By Veronica Burns The Norfolk Connecticut Children’s Foundation is offering grants to Norfolk students. The Children’s Foundation, located in Norfolk, was chartered in the mid 80’s to support the town’s young people. “Our goal is to give financial support to those who would not otherwise be able to participate in civic, cultural, social and education […]
Norfolk Teams Win In Bonspiel
A total of 12 teams took part in the Valentine’s Day Mixed Bonspiel, organized by the Norfolk Curling Club. Four teams were from the home club, the other eight were from visiting clubs. NY Caledonian, led by Jeff Lesuk, won the main challenge, the Childs Cup. The runners-up were Norfolk 1, led by Dave Pilbin […]
Norfolk’s January 2007 Weather
Finally some colder temperatures, but still not much snow By Russell Russ Here are the weather highlights from January as recorded at Norfolk’s National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Observer Station, Norfolk 2 SW, by the Great Mountain Forest Corporation. Norfolk 2 SW has recorded weather observations since January 1, 1932. The month’s high temperature of […]
