Dancer and Choreographer Brings Her Love of Movement to Norfolk
Moving to Music By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo In two short years, professionally trained dancer Kristin Mudge has taken Norfolk by storm. Donating her time and energy to a myriad of groups and endeavors in Norfolk and the surrounding area, Mudge’s most recent undertaking was choreographing the Northwestern Regional Seven High School musical, “Chicago.” A member […]
Heatwave Sets Record
By Russell Russ It really was the winter that wasn’t. March was our fourteenth consecutive month with warmer than normal average temperatures. You have to go back to January 2011 to find a month with below-normal temperatures. March even took it to a new level by being the warmest March in our 81-year recording […]
Maple Syrup Season Is Fast Out of the Starting Blocks
Early Preparations Pay Off This Year By Wiley Wood Sap flow in Norfolk’s sugar maples started three to four weeks early this year. Syrup producers who caught the early, unexpected flow had a good season. “We tapped our trees in January and started collecting in early February,” says Jude Mead, of Mead’s Maple Syrup, “the […]
Letters
Diverse Community, Diverse Views For those of us who have gay family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues and classmates (from Gilbert High School), the issue of gay marriage isn’t a theological debate between “God-centered” and “human-centered” principles (“Letters,” April 2012). It’s about fairness and civil rights. I don’t believe that the gay people in our community […]
Annual Town Meeting, Hazardous Waste, and Homeowners Tax Relief
By Sue Dyer The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Flags at Botelle School. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, June 2. Drop-off will be at the Public Works Facility in Falls Village from 9 a.m. to noon. This is an opportunity to get […]
Local Foundation Helps Area Children
Funds Available for Summer Camp Tuition By Barbara Perkins Just as there has always been a certain amount of privilege in Norfolk, there has also been a feeling that the privilege should be spread around. When Ken and Dottie Satherlie closed The Laurel School in 1985, they started a foundation dedicated to the belief that […]
