New Face at the Farmers Market
As it starts its 10th year, the farmers market has just hired an assistant market manager, Jordan Rose Lee, to help Manager Teresa Cannavo. Jordan lives in Norfolk and is an administrative assistant at the Congregational Church. She is also a singer and will be offering an evening of classical vocal music at the Norfolk […]
Historical Society Weekend Celebrates Today’s Norfolk Collectors
In conjunction with their exhibition “A Farmer, a Sportsman and a Diplomat: The Romance of Collecting in Norfolk,” the Norfolk Historical Society is sponsoring a weekend in February devoted to today’s collections. On Friday, February12, a cocktail party at the Historical Museum will feature a group of Norfolk collectors who will share their collecting […]
Selectman’s Corner—February 2016
Assessment Appeals and Problems With the DMV By Sue Dyer The deadline for Board of Assessment appeals is March 20, 2016. Contact the assessor, 860-542-5287, for applications and further information. The state Department of Motor Vehicles continues to experience technical difficulties resulting from its computer conversion of last August. Residents current on their motor vehicle […]
Torrington’s Five Points Gallery: Art Mecca and Tool for City Revitalization
Out and About By Ruth Melville Five Points Gallery, located in a historic building at the corner of Water and Main Streets in Torrington, has been in existence for less than three years, but it has already played a significant role in the revitalization of the city’s downtown. With its high ceilings and big […]
Aija Ends Its Run on Station Place
Pop-up planned for spring By Ruth Melville For four and a half years, Bella Erder’s shop Aija, selling jewelry, accessories, tableware and other gifts, has been a lively and colorful part of Station Place. But last December Erder reluctantly decided it was time to close her doors. Erder and her family first bought a […]
Milestones—Barbara Mulville
Barbara Mulville Barbara Ann Mulville, an active and devoted member of the Norfolk community, died in early December at age 84. She was born on August 24, 1931, in Greenwich, Conn., where she graduated from high school as the “most athletic girl.” She played softball for the Raybestos Girl All-Stars, a team known today […]
Local Author Sees the Funny Side of Norfolk Life
Tony Thomson’s Second Career By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A glance at Tony Thomson on paper (he was educated at Deerfield and Yale, served in the army during Vietnam, obtained graduate degrees from Oxford and Stanford and had a 30-year career in various investment management firms in London) doesn’t tell the whole story. While Thomson […]
Through the Garden Gate—February 2016
February, Time Travel By Leslie Watkins What if you could travel through time, predict the future and divine meteorological events? And what if by doing so you could create food, clothing, shelter and a less stressful existence–an existence that would afford you more time to enjoy leisure activities, have deeper relationships with loved […]
Bringing There to Here (or Building Norfolk’s Center)
Guest View By Pete Anderson Where is Norfolk’s center? The Village Green? The library? Town Hall? Infinity Hall? The fire station? The EMT building? Station Place? Each of these is a center for some of the people, some of the time. But where is our commercial center? Consider how the cluster of Norfolk’s oldest […]
