Jaguar Wins Norfolk Classic Car Show
The Best of Show Award went to a Jaguar XKC034 belonging to Tom Jaycox of Canaan. This model was built in the early 1950’s for owners who wanted to compete in the 24-hour race at Le Mans. This particular car ran only in the U.S., at venues such as Watkins Glen and Sebring. Photos by […]
Brass Quintet from Yale Plays Famers Market
The East Rock Brass Quintet performed at the Norfolk Farmers Market on Saturday. Its five members are graduate students at the Yale School of Music in New Haven during the year and have earned fellowships at the Norfolk Chamber Festival this summer. Next Saturday, Dark Horse will perform, and Ann Havemeyer will present her new […]
Local Input Requested on Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan
The Northwest Hills Council of Governments is preparing an update to the “Litchfield Hills Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan” prepared in 2006. A draft of the updated section prepared for our town is available for review by clicking here. The NHCOG is accepting public comments on the draft report through the end of July. The purpose […]
View From the Green
A Void That Can’t Be Filled By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo As impossible as it was to imagine anything, even cancer, having its way with Lloyd Garrison, it did. His indomitable spirit fought that beast for longer than most could. A true fighter, Lloyd attended Norfolk Now story conferences and executive editor meetings right up until […]
Norfolk Library Loses Executive Director
Interim Director Named An interim director of the Norfolk Library, Ann Havemeyer, above, has been named by the library’s board of directors to replace Luisa Sabin-Kildiss, who served as executive director from January 2013 until last month. While the library’s president, Robert Dance, would not comment on the reasons for Sabin-Kildiss’s departure, he praised her […]
Gift of Rental Properties Extends Family’s Legacy
By Wiley Wood The Foundation for Norfolk Living (FNL), a housing nonprofit, has announced the pending gift to the foundation of a sizable property belonging to Ralph Burr. The parcel, on Greenwoods Road East, numbers 29-32, has three houses on it, divided into six rental units and has been in the Burr family since 1913. […]
Lloyd Garrison, Founding Editor of Norfolk Now, Dies at 83
By Wiley Wood Lloyd Garrison, a journalist, editor and Norfolk presence for the past 18 years, who covered Europe and Africa for The New York Times in the 1960’s and in retirement founded this newspaper, died at his home in Norfolk on June 21. He was 83 years old. The cause was complications of prostate […]
Local Man Triggers AIRCON RED Alert Over D.C.
By Susannah Wood Around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7th, a small plane entered restricted airspace over Washington, D.C. leading to an AIRCON RED alert and the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol building, the Supreme Court building, the Library of Congress and other office buildings in the vicinity, according to the Associated Press and CNN. […]
Solar Generation On The Rise
Area Residents Find Solar Affordable By Bob Bumcrot Driving along Route 44 through East Canaan, it’s hard not to notice the large set of solar panels across the road from Freund’s farm: eight big arrays totaling 576 panels on the site of the old Couch farmhouse and barn. The 130-kilowatt installation by PurePoint Energy of […]
Letters
Let’s hear some positive facts Last month’s “View From the Green” by Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo, citing an article published in the Hartford Courant, depicted the state of Connecticut in overly negative terms. A recent bulletin titled “Connecticut Economic Review: 2014,” a publication of the not-for-profit, Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC), offers a useful balance to […]
