Zone 4
Going Native By Susannah Wood After a long cold winter and a reluctant spring, many of us relish the thought of warm dirt and blooming flowers. Nurseries and garden centers burst with an array of enticing choices, but few of them are native to our part of the world. Choosing native species for your garden […]
Town Plan Close To Wrapping Up
Plan calls for half-acre zoning in town’s center By Lloyd Garrison After 18 months of hearings and numerous rewrites, the town plan’s calculated vision of Norfolk’s future for the next ten years is finally nearing the finish line. The closest to a radical change in direction is a recommendation to spur both residential and commercial growth […]
Conservation Commission to Replace Shrubs at Town Hall In one of its first acts, the newly formed Conservation Commission will remove alien invasive species from the front of Town Hall and replace them with non-invasive natives. Their goal is to complete the transformation in one day, Saturday May 2. Slated for removal and disposal are […]
Selectmen’s Corner
The Annual Town Meeting will be held Monday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hall of Flags at Botelle Elementary School. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, June 6, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Falls Village at the Public Works Garage. Anyone interested must sign up in the Selectmen’s Office. Please call 542-5829 […]
Kim Scharnberg Meets Obama
By Sally Quale Norfolk resident Kim Scharberg has enjoyed success in multiple fields of music, as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, record producer and trombonist. Recently, chance catapulted him into the limelight with an invitation to share an on-stage curtain call with a cast of show business glitterati and President Obama. The venue was Ford’s Theatre, […]
Norfolk’s Memorial Day Road Race: 30 Years Running
By Barbara Perkins It’s hard to believe the Memorial Day Road Race turns 30 this year. We all know it now as a well run annual event sponsored by the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department with its proceeds benefitting the William F. Kelley Memorial Scholarship. Over the years, it has truly become part of the fabric […]
Out and About
Soleil Building: Northwest Connecticut’s One-Stop-Shop for Holistic Health By Barbara Perkins When driving through a familiar location, it’s not often we really look at the buildings, let alone notice or identify the businesses occupying the space. This is acutely true for 686 Main Street in Winsted, home to Soleil Healing & Arts. Tucked between the […]
Consider Your Blessings Counted
Norfolk natural resource inventory due May 16 By Bruce Frisch After three and a half years of work, the Conservation Commission will deliver its “Natural Resource Inventory” in mid-month. Consisting of 125 pages, most in color, 16 maps, many photos and nine appendices stuffed with tables and lists, the report will be given to town […]
Legal Notice
To the inhabitants of the Norfolk Sewer District in the Town of Norfolk, Connecticut, legally qualified to vote in said District. You are hereby notified and warned that the Annual Meeting of the Norfolk Sewer District in the Town of Norfolk will be held at the Town Hall, 19 Maple Avenue, Norfolk, CT on Wednesday, […]
Norfolk Then…
The Yankees and the Red Sox are back at it, but does anyone remember the rivalry between the Crickets and the Spiders? In 1915, a New York lawyer by the name of George Case laid out a baseball field adjacent to his summer home on Sunset Ridge. There he sponsored two teams made up of […]
