Norfolk Now Wins Grant For Anniversary Edition
Norfolk Now has been awarded a $3,500 grant to help produce a special literary issue to mark the town’s 250 th anniversary celebration on August 1. The award was announced by Guy Rovezzi, president of the Torrington- based Community Foundation. “The funding was made possible by a collaborative grant to the foundation by the Connecticut […]
Letters
Turtle-Bitten Like most locals. I am excited about the spring opening of Infinity Hall as a music venue and restaurant in the old Apple House building. It is interesting to note, however, that this ambitious enterprise, with its proposed 200 concerts a year (and the accompanying traffic, noise, parking problems and who knows what else) which could radically change the character […]
Jim Hotchkiss Chosen as Norfolk’s Volunteer of the Year
From zoning to photography and everything in between By Colleen Gundlach Jim Hotchkiss is a person who unpretentiously goes about helping out wherever he can, but self- effacingly says, “my wife deserves the award. She put up with all the meetings.” And meetings there have been, for many years. In recognition of more than 35 […]
From the court room to the riding stable
Norfolk Couple Practices Law and Conservation Together By Bob Bumcrot In 1980, Mary (Molly) Ackerly was assigned by Shipman & Goodwin, her Hartford law firm, to take a young job applicant named J. Michael Sconyers to lunch. They liked each other from the start, began dating in 1986 and got married on January 2, 1988, thereby […]
Ashpohtag Home Invasion
All three suspects face criminal charges By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Two young men broke into the home of Thomas Wilkeson, Harrison Conway and Chrystal Marshall at 314 Ashpohtag Road shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25. Raymond Santana, 21, of Bronx, New York and Jesse Diaz, 19, of Winsted walked into the house wearing […]
Norfolk Then…
This year (2008) is not the first time Hollywood has come to Norfolk. In 1945 Alfred Hitchcock filmed a scene from “Spellbound” in the Doolittle Woods. The movie starred Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Peterson in the story of a psychiatrist trying to unlock the repressed memories of murder suspect John Ballantine, played by Gregory […]
Norfolk Clean Up Day Norfolk’s annual Clean-up Day will be held on Saturday, April 19. Willing participants should meet with Community Association volunteers at 9am on Town Green to help clean up our town in preparation for Earth Day. Gloves are advised and trash bags will be provided. Many hands make light work . See […]
April Calendar 2008
TOWN GOVERNMENT Selectmen meet at Town Hall, first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. . Wetlands Agency meets at Town Hall, the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. Planning & Zoning meets at Town Hall, the second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. Board of Finance meets at Town Hall, the […]
High Speed Internet Voids Likely to Remain
One for the “Cons” List By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A recurring complaint at town plan meetings over the past few months addresses the problem of voids in high speed internet access throughout Norfolk. Unless the towns in northwestern Connecticut or local internet providers invest millions of dollars in infrastructure, there is little to be done […]
