First 5K Trail Race a Success
Barbour Woods is Site of Norfolk Land Trus Race A thin drizzle and slippery trails did not deter the runners who gathered for the Norfolk Land Trust’s first annual 5K Trail Run through Barbour Woods on Saturday, October 4. The race started at the Lovers Lane entrance to the woods at 10 a.m. The winner […]
New Norfolk Library Director Was There All Along
Ann Havemeyer to Play Dual Role By Colleen Gundlach In the 1967 musical film The Happiest Millionaire, songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman coined a new word, fortuosity, which they defined as “fortuitious little happy happenstances.” Norfolk Library has been the recipient of a bit of such fortuosity itself in finding its new director. In the […]
Selectmen’s Corner
Testing of the Notification System November 6 We will be testing the “Alert Norfolk” notification system on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. If you asked to be notified by telephone, there will be a slight delay before the automated message begins. Once it begins, please follow the voice commands so that we know […]
Rosanna Trestman Retires from Norfolk Now
Co-founder bows out but the play goes on By Colleen Gundlach With the retirement of Rosanna Trestman from its editorial staff, the curtain falls on the opening act of Norfolk Now. The overture began when Lloyd Garrison, a retired foreign correspondent for the New York Times, met a freelance journalist and photographer and together they […]
Norfolk Firefighters and Soccer Players Wear Pink
For their last game of the season, the kids on the Botelle fifth and sixth grade soccer team were proud to sport brand-new pink t-shirts. To show their support for the fight against breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, firefighters across the United States and Canada wore pink t-shirts in October. The International Association […]
Botelle Beat
A Busy Month! By Kim Crone The school year is in full swing, and the students, teachers, administration and volunteers are working hard to make this a great year. On October 2, as part of the Cultural Enrichment Program, Caryn Lin brought her electric violin to the Hall of Flags. Using innovative looping techniques, she […]
Whiting Mills Draws Visitors to Winsted
Renovated Factory Houses Art and Craft Studios By Colleen Gundlach Tucked away on a street behind the Winsted campus of Northwestern Connecticut Community College is an outwardly nondescript old factory building that is anything but nondescript on the inside. Driving up to the parking lot behind the building and walking inside will reward the visitor […]
Letters November 2014
Attitudes and Platitudes I fondly remember the feeling I had when I first visited Norfolk eleven years ago. Having lived in big cities, suburban neighborhoods and small rural towns, my perspective then was based on seeing what Norfolk is—a lovely small town with amazing cultural offerings, overwhelming natural beauty and a tight-knit community where people […]
The White Hart Inn: A Litchfield County Classic Comes Back to Life
By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo On a recent sun-kissed autumn day, every porch table at the White Hart Inn was filled to capacity by 12:15 p.m. Not bad considering the tap room doesn’t start serving lunch until noon, and it was a Tuesday. Safe to say, a lot of people are happy the iconic inn on […]
Library Associates Host a Barn Dance Fundraiser
Every year for the past 10 years the Norfolk Library Associates have held a fundraiser to offset the cost of the tent used for the annual book sale. Thanks to the generosity of Grant and Kristin Mudge, who offered the use of their barn, this year the associates decided to do something completely different—hold a […]
