Zone 4

Seasonal Care For The Cultivated Landscape By Martha Klein Gardeners talk about “putting the garden to bed” for winter, an apt metaphor for the living yet subdued garden tucked under its winter blanket of straw and mulch. Autumn is the time to foster soil conditions that lead to healthy spring plants. Fall yard and garden […]

It’s Only Natural

I Break For Insects By Shelley Harms October is the time when woolly bears cross the road. I mean the caterpillars (though a large actual bear was killed on Route 44 this summer). And yes, I watch for the little crawly bugs and, if I don’t brake, I at least try to steer so the […]

Bruce Frisch, Photographer for Norfolk Now: The First Ten Years

A Look into Our Rear View Mirror Starting with the December 2003 photo of Keith Harvill closing his pharmacy and ending a decade letter with the picture of Bill and Barbara Gridley striding through Gridley Gate, Bruce Frisch has taken 238 photos for Norfolk Now, which is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. In commemoration of […]

Norfolk Then

With a new firehouse proposed for Norfolk, here’s a look back at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Shepard Road firehouse on June 6, 1970. By then the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department had outgrown its original quarters in the Royal Arcanum Building, built in 1904 on Station Place. Pictured in this photograph from left to right […]