The Botelle Beat
End of the Year Happenings By Ann DeCerbo At the end of each school year, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department arrives early one morning with a pumper truck to fill kiddie pools and buckets with water. This kicks off the annual Botelle School Field Day. Led by Botelle’s physical education teacher, Hannah Sobieski, Field Day […]
Commentary: Finding You Center in the Northwest Corner
By David Beers Are you using your full working circle? What I mean is, are you able to reach out in all directions from Norfolk? For work, I consider my geographic reach to be roughly a 50-mile straight-line radius from my home. Almost any location within this radius is a 1.5-hour drive or less. Anything […]
It’s Only Natural
Birth of a Fawn Bu Marie Lowe It is not often that people are privileged to view the miracle of new life in the natural world. My husband, West, and I were fortunate recently to do just that, in triplicate! While gazing out our bedroom window early one morning this past May, we noticed a […]
Arethusa Farm Serves Up Fresh From Barn to Bistro
Wholesome and natural are its bywords By Colleen Gundlach In Greek mythology, Arethusa was a nymph whom the goddess Artemis transformed into a spring to save her virginity when she was being pursued by the river god Alpheus. It is an apt name, then, for Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, because the land it is built […]
Selectmen’s Corner
Taxes Due in July; Repaving Schedule, Tobey Stickers and Sanitary Survey By Sue Dyer The State of Connecticut is preparing to mill and pave Route 44 from Memorial Green to the Winchester town line. Weather permitting the contractors will begin milling on Monday July 7 at the Winchester town line and work towards Norfolk. Paving […]
Question: What Makes Tuesdays at the Wood Creek Bar & Grill Consequential?
Local Event Gains Regional Following By Barbara Perkins What is a female rabbit called? St. Patrick is said to have cast what out of Ireland? What is the name of the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean? Krusty the Clown is featured on what TV show? Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag […]
Restoration Work Begins on Norfolk’s Music Shed
Historic Building 108 Years Old by Kurt Steele Some time during the 1930s or 1940s—decades when the Music Shed saw very little use—the building lost its cupola. “No one really knows how, ” says Samuel A. (Pete) Anderson, a trustee of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate. “The story is that it blew off during a […]
Eye on Town Government
Board of Education Salutes Departing Administrators By Robert Carter At its meeting on June 11, the Norfolk Board of Education recognized the departure of Botelle’s principal and superintendent at the end of the school year. The board thanked Principal Peter Michelson and Superintendent George Counter for their service to the school and dedication to its […]
New Botelle Superintendent Named
Dr. Mary Beth Iacobelli has been appointed to replace Superintendent of School George Counter, who retired at the end of June, according to an announcement by the Norfolk Board of Education. Dr. Iacobelli, who was superintendent of the East Haddam Public Schools from 2012 to 2014, has also served as an elementary school principal in […]
Regionalization Committee Meets With State Legislators
Possibility of Legislative Relief Discussed By Wiley Wood When it became clear in April that the regionalization plan for Norfolk and Colebrook’s elementary schools faced a legislative roadblock , the study committee invited the state legislators representing the two towns to its May meeting. All three complied. Roberta Willis (D), state representative for the 64th […]
