Winter Reminders
By Sue Dyer Fish and game licenses are currently available in the Town Clerk’s office. The second tax payment is due by February 1, 2010. A reminder: during snow storms cars cannot be parked on the roads or they could be towed at the owner’s expense. It impedes plowing and storm clean up. If residents […]
Boston Sweeps Calder Cup
Four day bonspiel held on Norfolk ice By Bob Bumcrot In an exciting four-day, 16 team Bonspiel at the Norfolk Curling Club (NCC), Canadian Club (CC) of Boston took the Calder Trophy. The final match against Philadelphia 2 was sewn up in the sixth end when Boston placed a solid block of four stones within […]
Retirement Party for Anne Moses
On November 29, Ann Moses, soon to retire after forty-two years as Norfolk’s Town Clerk, was honored by her colleagues and friends with a gala celebration at Ye Olde Newgate Coon Club. First Selectman Sue Dyer presented official commendations from the Board of Selectmen, Congressman Chris Murphy and Governor M. Jodi Rell. Further recognition, from […]
West Lowe to Perform at Infinity Hall
A “Much Talked-Of Event” By Colleen Gundlach “Any strange and much-talked-of event is always followed by imitation, the world being so well supplied with excitable people who only need a little stirring up to make them lose what is left of their heads and do mad things which they would not have thought of ordinarily.” […]
Letters
To Friends and Neighbors of Norfolk Thank you so very much for the wonderful reception held Sunday afternoon. It was great to have a chance to visit with so many friends. Thank you to the Town Hall staff for their hard work in organizing this festive occasion. Thanks also for the wonderful cards, gifts and […]
Documentary Film Series Continues at the Norfolk Library
Hippies grow up in opening presentation of winter series By Leila Javitch The fall series of documentaries presented by the Documentary Film Committee on Monday evenings at the Norfolk Library was a great success. The final film, “American Meat,” shown on November 23, drew a large crowd who got to munch on locally grown sausages […]
Bridgette and Harry Rallo are a Multi-Talented Pair
Two People, Many Talents By Bob Bumcrot For the past eleven years the old parsonage at 47 Greenwoods Road East has housed two multi-talented, hardworking artists. Bridgette Rallo, came to Norfolk from Pelham Manor, NY, just north of the Bronx, and her husband Harry, from Arthur Avenue, right in the North Bronx. “For years I […]
Norfolk Lost & Found
This 18th century house is still standing in Norfolk, although in a very different guise. Built in 1764, it was the home of a hatmaker and has since been enlarged. Can you identify this house? (Hint: The mountain behind it now has a tower.) Photo Copyright Norfolk Historical Society
Norfolk Students Win Superintendents’ Awards
The Litchfield County Superintendents’ Association presented two Norfolk students with the Superintendent’s Award recently. Sixth grader Elias Olsen and eighth grader Gabriell Nelson were recognized for “serving their schools and communities while maintaining good scholastic progress and exhibiting leadership qualities.” George Counter and Clint Montgomery, Superintendents of Botelle School and Northwestern Regional 7 respectively, presented […]
Norfolk’s November Weather
Third Warmest November on Record By Russell Russ The month’s low temperature of 23 degrees was observed on November 7 and the high temperature of 66 degrees was observed on November 9. The average mean temperature was 42.5 degrees, which was 5.6 degrees above normal, making it the third warmest November over the last 78 […]
