Botelle Beat—October 2014
By Ann DeCerbo Botelle students and parents celebrated the beginning of the school year at a Welcome Back Ice Cream Social sponsored by the PTO. The event was held on the playground and ice cream was served by the school’s new administration, Superintendent Mary Beth Iacobelli and Principal Matt O’Connell. The school children have also […]
USA Curling Gives National Award to Mary Fanette
By Wiley Wood In December 2011, Mary Fanette was in her second and final term as president of the Norfolk Curling Club. Already on the boards of several Norfolk nonprofits and serving as the town’s volunteer webmaster, Fanette may have been looking forward to stepping down that coming May. Then the clubhouse burned to the […]
Norfolk Land Trust and Great Mountain Forest Publish Updated Trail Guides
Lace Up Your Hiking Boots By Ruth Melville Local hikers now have two new resources for exploring the Norfolk woods. Both the Norfolk Land Trust and Great Mountain Forest have recently released improved and expanded guides to hiking trails in the Norfolk area. The new, fifth edition of the Land Trust Trail Guide is the […]
The Norfolk Library Book Group
Varied books, good background info, open to all By Anne Frieze On a designated Friday approximately once a month, twenty to thirty people gather in a circle ready to discuss a book chosen by Mark Scarbrough, the facilitator of the Norfolk Library Book Group. In its fourth year, it is one of the core ongoing […]
Letters
Consolidation Considerations Colleen Gundlach’s View from the Green hopefully alerts residents of both Colebrook and Norfolk alike to further examine regionalization before committing to a path that is nearly impossible to change. If the only issue were having our friends and neighbors from Colebrook share in our school community, I would wholeheartedly support that! Unfortunately, […]
Infinity Hall Opens in Hartford
A new Infinity Music Hall and Bistro opened in Hartford on August 22. The 500-seat music hall and four-star restaurant at the corner of Columbus Boulevard and Front Street is an extension of Infinity Hall’s Norfolk flagship. It will host 250 music and comedy shows a year, and Hartford hopes it will boost the economy […]
Gas Pipelines Proposed for Connecticut
By Martha Klein As global sources of oil and gas decline, innovative extraction methods put previously unavailable pockets of fuel within reach. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, releases oil and gas locked deep inside shale rock, by forcing high pressure water, sand and chemicals down holes drilled a few hundred feet to as much as 2000 […]
Wooden Canoes Thrive in South Norfolk
Thomson Canoe Works Still Builds Canoes by Hand By Ruth Melville A summer job at a canoeing camp led Norfolk resident Schuyler Thomson to an unanticipated profession, and he has now been building and repairing handmade wooden canoes for over 30 years. Thomson, who grew up in Woodbury, Conn., graduated from the University of Connecticut […]
Ann Havemeyer Is New Director of Norfolk Library
On Monday, September 22, the Norfolk Library announced the appointment of Ann Havemeyer as director, starting October 1, 2014. Havemeyer, previously curator of the Library’s special collections, has served as interim director of the library since June, when she replaced Luisa Sabin-Kildiss. Havemeyer holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of several […]
Tri-Town Democratic Picnic
Frank Dooley, chairman of the Norfolk Democratic Town Committee (center), was all smiles at the Norfolk Curling Club on September 13, with his counterparts Todd Shearer from North Canaan (L) and Tom McKeon of Colebrook (R). Each town chairman won a nice door prize donated by a Norfolk business, and numerous Democratic candidates came to […]
