All-Norfolk Crew To Construct Infinity Hall
Dan Hicks makes good on promise to hire locally By Lloyd Garrison When Dan Hincks bought Greenwoods Theater a year ago, he vowed to create enduring links to the community. “Once we decided to upgrade the music hall and create an upscale restaurant on the ground floor,” says Hincks, “I was determined to […]
Bequests Made to Several Town Organizations
Bequests of over $36,000 each to the Norfolk Library, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department and the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance have been made from the estate of Dorothy Ford Battistoni, who died in April, 2006. Born in 1918, she lived all her life at the former dairy farm on the corner of Doolittle and Loon […]
Norfolk’s Web
A Dream Weaves Into Reality By Colleen Gundlach What started as a wish list item to many townspeople has blossomed into a project that has pulled in the expertise of many talented Norfolkians. One look at the new town Web site will reveal the extent of the commitment and abilities of its creators. Led by […]
Indie Feature Film To be Shot in Norfolk
By Lloyd Garrison A low budget film written and directed by Lee Toland Krieger, a promising filmmaker with one feature length movie behind him, will be shot in a variety of locations in Norfolk starting March 10 and extending into April. The film, budgeted at a modest $1 million, is entitled “The Vicious […]
Make More Room in the Staff Box
New Photographer Joins the Norfolk Now Team By Rosanna Trestman Norfolk Now is pleased to announce the addition of the newest member to our all-volunteer staff. Carol Stein joins Adela Hubers as co-staff photographer with this issue of Norfolk Now. Stein began working in photography in the 1960s. She studied with luminaries such as Gary […]
February Calendar 2008
TOWN GOVERNMENT Selectmen meet first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall. Wetlands Agency meets the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall. Planning & Zoning meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall. Board of Finance meets at Town […]
Have You Seen These Animals?
NRIS seeks help with wildlife lists By Shelley Harms A binder at the Norfolk Library has the latest lists of Norfolk’s birds, butterflies, moths, mammals, amphibians and reptiles compiled by the Natural Resources Inventory Subcommittee of the Conservation Commission/Inland Wetlands Agency. All are welcome to look at the lists. In an ongoing effort to keep […]
Briefly…
More Photographers Step Up Those reply cards sent with Norfolk Now’s annual appeal produced several responses from photographers, including Michael Dobo, a recently retired photographer with an impressive string of assignments from Time, LIFE and People behind him, and Ben Nodeau, an amateur photographer who works weekdays at the Hotchkiss School… In Case You […]
Letters
A Not So Very Merry My yearly Christmas eve sojourn to Connecticut begins in Norfolk where the topography reminds of my home at the North Pole. But lo, on the night of December 24, 2007 as I swooped down from the Berkshires ho-hoing away, my reindeer became lost and disoriented. We cut a […]
Norfolk’s December Weather and a Yearly Summary for 2007
White Christmas in Norfolk By Russell Russ Here are the weather highlights from December 2007 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 low temperature of 8 […]
