Good News and Bad News for City Meadow
Town loses grant but plans to see project through The good news is that the City Meadow project, which would transform the sunken wetland below Station Place into a public park, finally got the green light from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The bad news is that, coming on April 8, the […]
State Threatens to Slash Norfolk’s Education Grant
Town obligated to make up difference By Wiley Wood This year’s Annual Budget Hearing, usually one of the highlights of the town calendar, lasted exactly two minutes and 11 seconds. Vice-Chairman Graham Allyn announced to a largely empty room that the Board of Finance had no budget it was prepared to discuss with the […]
Vint Lawrence Dies at 76
Vint Lawrence, an artist, gardener and activist in town affairs, whose connection to Norfolk began in childhood as the son of weekenders and developed in his last two decades when he took up full-time residence, died on April 9 at Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven at the age of 76. The cause was […]
Confucian Group’s Appeal for Tax-Exemption Denied
The Board of Assessment Appeals voted on Tuesday, April 19 to deny tax exemption to Confucian Study Association for its property on Westside Road, a 48-acre compound with more than a dozen buildings that until recently belonged to The Mission of Tao-Confucianism and before that to the Hutterian Brethren. “We felt that we needed […]
Melville, the Mountain and Moby Dick
By Michael Kelly Only a writer with Herman Melville’s phantasmagorical imagination could look out his window in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts at Mount Greylock, 16 miles due north, and envision a great white whale surfacing for air in the remote seas of the South Pacific. Yet this is precisely what Melville did […]
Tobey Bog: The Centrality of Marginal Places
By Hans M. Carlson Many of the articles I’ve written for Norfolk Now have concerned the interconnectedness of the natural world and human communities. By highlighting stone walls, collier’s hearths and the remnants of early conservation work, I’ve tried to show that even the deepest woods here in the northwest corner of Conn. are […]
Blackberry River Baking Co. Serves New Food in a Familiar Setting
By Ruth Melville Four years ago, Audrey and Sam Leary were living in Brooklyn and looking for a place to start a new life—they found it in Canaan, Conn. The couple met in New York, where Audrey attended culinary school. After leaving school, she worked briefly at a Michelin-rated restaurant in the city before […]
From Riverbed to Lasting Art
Jim Kochiss leaves no stone unturned By Colleen Gundlach Most people step over rocks, whether in the river or on the roadside, without a second thought, but not Jim Kochiss. This lifetime Norfolk resident sees the potential for beauty in each stone, and has the ability to bring out the true personality of every […]
A Stint in the Middle East
MacGregor Robinson takes a position at King’s Academy By Christina Vanderlip When he headed admissions for Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling N.Y., Norfolk native MacGregor (Greg) Robinson traveled the globe recruiting and interviewing potential students and meeting their families. Clearly, he had not seen enough of the world in his estimation, as he recently accepted […]
Town Map Reissued
The second edition of the Norfolk Map & Guide was just issued in mid-April, with updated businesses on the map side and a few information updates on the guide side. Copies are available around town. More than 20,000 brochures of the first edition were taken from racks and displays last year by prospective visitors. Based […]
