Early Bird Gets Sunflower Seed
Norfolk Farmers Market Starts Season The growing season is just starting in the Northeast Corner, and the Norfolk Farmers’ Market is inviting all comers to get with the program. On Saturday morning, the familiar awnings will be pitched on the Town Hall lawn, acoustic guitarist Bill Benson will be serenading the crowd, and many familiar […]
Norfolk’s Proposed Budget Up 1 Percent
By Wiley Wood On April 29, the Norfolk Board of Finance presented its budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 to a smattering of Norfolk residents at the Botelle School. The board’s chairman, Michael Sconyers, announced a total increase over last year’s budget of less than 1 percent, translating to a mill rate of 20.22, a bump […]
Pitching In
Stalwart parents and children brave a brisk April morning to contribute their efforts to the Baseball Field Clean-Up Day. Employing assorted gardening tools, rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows, they made the Mountain Road Little League field ready for baseball.
Vocal Music – A Norfolk Tradition
By Rosanna Trestman Norfolk will be singing this summer when the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival season opens with a concert by the Yale Choral Artists, a new 24-voice chorus of professional singers from around the U.S. It will be directed by Jeffrey Douma, who also directs the Yale Glee Club, and will perform Rachmaninov’s “All […]
Wood Creek Bridge On 272 Under Repair
Construction could end by fall By Bob Bumcrot The bridge across Wood Creek at the intersection of routes 44 and 272 next to Memorial Green is being rebuilt by the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The bridge surface itself will be removed, one side at a time, and replaced with concrete and paving. Much of the […]
Norfolk’s March Weather
Still felt like winter By Russell Russ Did you think March was cold this year? Many people did. Where were all those 70 degree days? Well, it was the coldest March since 2005, beaten only by 2001 and 1996. You have to go back to the early 1990’s to find a few in a row […]
New Signage Planned For Norfolk
Two new signs at either end of town on Route 44 will welcome cyclists, motorists and the occasional pedestrian to Norfolk. The design, featuring an arch with a hanging signboard and the date of Norfolk’s founding, was recently approved by the Board of Selectmen. The cost of fabrication and installation will be underwritten by a […]
A Globe-trotting Entrepreneur Loves Norfolk But Laments Lack of Broadband
Leaving Manhattan’s Noise Behind By Lloyd Garrison Running an internet-based business from Norfolk isn’t that unusual these days. In fact, Bryan Stanton has been running a worldwide marketing and public relations business from Norfolk since 1997. “From the agency’s founding 20 years prior, clients were always more foreign than domestic,” he explained, “as our expertise […]
Many Roads Lead to Norfolk
By Rosanna Trestman Coincidence brought me to Norfolk. Since that time, coincidental encounters with total strangers have bought Norfolk back to life for them. Our family left New York City because, I discovered, baby strollers are exactly on level with the exhaust pipes of city busses. Also, I was a country girl. Gasping for air […]
