Rosemary Gill Will Perform One-Woman Show
“When the Theatre Came to Town” By Jude Mead “There is no business like show business,” according to Rosemary Gill, whose debut performance of “When the Theatre Came to Town” takes place on Sunday, May 29 in the Great Hall of the Norfolk Library with two showings, one at 6 p.m. and another at 8 p.m. This one-person, original […]
Norfolk’s Weather—March 2016
Record Low Winter-Season Snowfall By Russell Russ This winter’s unusual and relatively snowless pattern continued through March. Temperatures were well above normal for most of the month. Record warmth on March 9 and 10 cleared the remaining ice from most local lakes and ponds, which was over five weeks earlier than last winter. For […]
Norfolk Photographers at Pinacoteca Gallery
Mia Weiner, owner of the Pinacoteca Gallery in Bantam, Conn., confers with guests at an opening reception on April 16 for “Norfolk Through a Lens,” an exhibition of 10 Norfolk photographers: Jennifer Almquist, Peter Coffeen, Mahlon Craft, Bruce Frisch, Katherine Griswold, Anita Holmes, Jim Jasper, Christopher Little, Babs Perkins and Rick Schatzberg. A large-format book […]
Sanders and Trump Win Norfolk Primaries
Election officials in Norfolk reported a steady trickle of primary election voters throughout the day, with two Democrats, on average, for every Republican. Turnout was high, with 62 percent of eligible voters casting ballots. On the Democratic side, the count was 141 votes for Bernie Sanders, and 129 for Hillary Clinton. Sanders’s share of Democratic […]
The Ultimate Farm-to-Table Experience
Babs Perkins’s new photography on view at the library By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Babs Perkins describes a Zen-like element to life in the Balkans, which is certainly reflected in her photographs from the region. Her upcoming show at the Norfolk Library, “Bosnia & Serbia through the Lens” includes a collection of 30 photographs from […]
Through The Garden Gate—May 2016
Getting Your Garden Back Into Shape By Leslie Watkins Here in The Icebox of Connecticut, tradition holds that our last possible frost date is Memorial Day. Global Weirding may fool us into planting out earlier, but it is better to hold off for the tender annuals like tomatoes, basil, peppers, begonias and impatiens. There […]
Local Animal Shelter Offers Free Care
The Little Guild That Could While Norfolk doesn’t have its own shelter for cats and dogs, The Little Guild of St. Francis in West Cornwall has long filled that void. The fastest-growing animal rescue effort in Connecticut, the Little Guild adopted out 515 animals last year, more than twice its previous record. The shelter […]
View From the Green
One Man’s Trash . . . By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Last week, we gutted the final section of our 255-year-old home that we have been in the process of renovating on and off for the last 11 years. In 2005, I was thrilled to be living in a house with that much history and […]
Norfolk Real Estate Transfers—March 2016
On March 3, The Bank of New York Mellon transferred 13 Shepard Rd. to Brad Bousquet for $41,000. On March 3, The Mission of Tao Confucianism, Inc. transferred 207 Westside Rd. to Confucian Study Association, Inc. for $0. On March 14, PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors LLC transferred 93 Winchester Rd. to Justin Thomas Zaraycki for $95,000. On […]
Norfolk Then . . .
Although there was no organized baseball for Norfolk youth until Little League arrived in 1952, town team baseball flourished during the first half of the 20th century. The first Norfolk town team dates back to the early 1900’s and was comprised of young adults who competed against teams from nearby towns. In 1938, the town team […]
