View From the Green
Do We Have The Cart Before The Horse? By Colleen Gundlach As so often happens in a small town, there are different viewpoints and outlooks, even among friends. Such is the case with the topic of this View. Even among the editors of Norfolk Now, there is friendly disparity about this issue. The opinions I […]
Real Estate Transfers in August
Federal National Mortgage Assoc. to John Truskauskas, 10 River Place, on 7/07/2014, $29,900. John W. & Suzanne T. Bourdeaux to Adam P. & Sara R. Heller, 39 Grant St., on 7/09/2014, $249,000.
Norfolk Then…
Norfolk’s first consolidated school was the Center School, built in 1914. Designed by Ehrick Rossiter, architect of the Music Shed and several school buildings on the Hotchkiss campus, Center School accommodated children in kindergarten through 8th grade. It had eight spacious classrooms, a teachers’ room, lavatories, a book room and a large playroom. The school […]
Massachussetts Approves Railway Track Upgrade to Pittsfield
Campaign Hopes to Restore Passenger Rail Service from NYC By Ruth Melville On August 14, a group of about 40 residents of Litchfield County crowded into the Wandering Moose Café in West Cornwall to discuss the possibility of restoring passenger train service from Grand Central Station in New York City to northwest Connecticut and the […]
Engaging the Paradox: The Secret Corner Should Not be a Secret
Local businesses work to raise visibility By Christopher Sinclair While the verdant, ambling hills of the southern Berkshires, rife with clear streams and winding trails, receive the lion’s share of attention from people passing through or visiting, some individuals in the northwest corner are working to bring attention back to a somewhat neglected facet of […]
Housatonic Heritage Walks to Explore the Beauty and Culture of the Area
Norfolk Events Include Hikes in Great Mountain Forest and Stained Glass Windows By Ruth Melville On two weekends this fall, September 20 and 21, and October 4 and 5, Housatonic Heritage will be sponsoring its 13th annual Heritage Walks program. The walks are designed to explore the multifarious aspects—natural, cultural, historical—of the Upper Housatonic Valley. […]
Clean Energy Can Be Generated In Connecticut
By Martha Klein Connecticut gets 51% of its electricity from natural gas, and another 41% from the Millstone nuclear plant near New London. The state has 20 natural gas burning power plants bringing electricity to the grid. The one coal-burning plant, Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station, contributes a mere 1.4% to net electrical generation. The remaining […]
Norfolk Now’s Prolific News Reporter Leaves Norfolk
Reflections on His Unlikely Journalistic Career By Kurt Steele Little would Dr. Robert Bumcrot, retired professor and chair of the mathematics department at Hofstra University, have believed it when he moved here in 2002, that he would become a reporter and editor for this volunteer-staffed newspaper and would write some 155 articles for it. Sadly, […]
Lone Oak Campsites: 50 Years
The Browns of East Canaan celebrate semicentennial of family farm turned campground By Colleen Gundlach There was an air of excitement, friendship and festivity on August 16 in East Canaan as Lone Oak Campsites celebrated its 50th anniversary by throwing an all-day party for the people who have been a part of the business over […]
Cadillacs Are Good For Norfolk Business
General Motors entourage drives into town By Jonathan Barbagallo “What are all of those Cadillacs doing on Station Place?” “Why are there a lot of executives walking around town?” These questions were heard during the last week of July throughout Norfolk as a fleet of brand new 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupes descended on Station Place […]
