Norfolk Lost & Found
This pastoral scene was photographed a few years ago by Owen Oxley for an article in Norfolk Now. Can you identify the location? Photo By Owen Oxley
Letters
Now, About My Newspaper There has been much talk swirling around town about the anticipated sale of Norfolk’s Corner Store, and I want to give everyone a brief update on the progression. Nearly two month’s ago, I accepted an offer on the store from a group of men that own a similar, successful, business in […]
Fields of Dreams
If you build it, they will come. By Rosanna Trestman If you passed the Mountain Road ball field this spring, chances are you witnessed the All American Game in action. If you saw the late afternoon sun skim the bleachers and heard the crack of metal bats; if you heard children and parents cheering the […]
Families Celebrate Summer Reading
June 23 was a beautiful evening for enjoying a potluck dinner on Tobey Pond’s shores. A steel drum band added to the festive kick off of this year’s library summer reading program. Photo By Bruce Frisch
An Abundance of Riches
Norfolk Artswave! will showcase a town brimming with creative talent By Bridgette L. Rallo It all started slowly. A group of local artists with no place to show decided to form an art league. The Yale Summer School of Art offered to help. A local patron of the arts saw a great deal of unfulfilled […]
A Child’s Summer in Norfolk
By Rosanna Trestman As one can see by this issue’s lead story, grown-ups can expect a summer chock a block with summer entertainment in Norfolk. The Arts Wave! weekend, an impressive effort by any standards, comes on top of our annual program of student and professional concerts at the Music Shed, drawing classes and art […]
Letters
Now, About My Newspaper There has been much talk swirling around town about the anticipated sale of Norfolk’s Corner Store, and I want to give everyone a brief update on the progression. Nearly two month’s ago, I accepted an offer on the store from a group of men that own a similar, successful, business in […]
Norfolk’s Fr. Jeffries is turning two parishes into one happy family
A Man with a Mission By Bridgette L. Rallo When Father Brian Jeffries took over as the pastor of the combined Roman Catholic parishes of Immaculate Conception in Norfolk and St. Joseph’s in Canaan two years ago, he faced serious problems. Members of both churches had initially resisted the consolidation mandated by the Archdiocese of […]
Great Mountain Forest: A Pioneer in Forest Conservation
New Historical Museum Exhibit By Ann Havemeyer There is a borer beetle at work at the Norfolk Historical Museum, but you will have to look closely to discover its handiwork. Visitors to the newly installed exhibition, Great Mountain Forest [GMF]: A Century of Conservation, may notice a small pile of sawdust next to one of […]
Bishop’s Committee Gains Three
Group Overseas Church of the Transfiguration By Linda Pizzica In 1963 Reverend Wendell Phillips, the last presiding clergyman assigned to the Church of the Transfiguration, retired. Since then a committee of church members known as the Bishop’s Committee, with the help of the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, have taken over the management of the little […]
