Community News—June 2017
Norfolk Land Trust Hikes As part Connecticut Trails Day, the NLT will offer two different hikes at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Billings trailhead on Grantville Road: a three-mile hike to the East Summit Trail and a two-mile hike to the Pine Mountain Trail. Both include a fairly steep ascent, and the trails […]
Norfolk Then . . .
The auction is about to begin, as potential buyers browse among an assortment of furniture in front of George W. Scoville’s store on Greenwoods Road near the corner of the Green. Scoville was a dealer in furniture and upholstery as well as town undertaker and funeral director. The store no longer stands, but Scoville’s house, […]
Memorial Day Five-Mile Race Is Run in Near-Record Time
The Memorial Day 5-Mile Road Race was run in cool, almost ideal conditions. A field of 156 runners took their positions at the starting line, ranging in age from eight to 88. The race was won by Brandon Leclair of Goshen, 20, in a near-record time of 27:54. Leclair also won the race in 2014 […]
Light Rain Falls on Norfolk Parade but Fails to Dampen Spirits
The Memorial Day parade formed on Maple Avenue at 9 a.m., despite a spattering of rain. In the forefront were Norfolk’s veterans and active service members, followed by its fire fighters and their gleaming pumper truck, the ambulance corps with their vehicle and a number of youth groups and teams. The marchers proceeded around […]
View from the Green
Distracted Driving By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo We’re all guilty of it. You’re in the car, bored as hell on your fourth trip to Torrington in three days, and your phone pings, or chirps, or whistles at you, and you simply must know what information is coming in . . . immediately. So you check […]
Construction Begins on Affordable Housing Units
Groundbreaking ceremony held on April 20 By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The weather on April 20 served as the perfect metaphor for the decade long endeavor to bring affordable housing to Norfolk. The morning began with a cold, plodding rain, but the skies brightened as 11 a.m. rounded the clock and the official groundbreaking ceremony […]
Board of Finance Struggles to Keep Spending Down
Increases outnumber cuts By Wiley Wood On Monday, April 24, the Board of Finance held its annual budget hearing and presented a provisional budget for the next fiscal year. Despite a general effort to keep costs down, spending will go up slightly in the coming year and the mill rate will increase from 22.09 […]
City Meadow Finally Ready for Its Makeover
Construction to start in late June By Wiley Wood The City Meadow project cleared its final regulatory hurdle at a public hearing on April 25 when the Planning and Zoning Commission approved an application for an earth excavation permit, as required by town statutes for projects of more than 250 cubic yards. The construction […]
Our Native Wildlife Needs Native Plants
By Shelley Harms Ah, spring in Norfolk! Frog choruses, birdsong, green leaves and . . . burgeoning invasive plants. It’s time to pull up the garlic mustard and chop out those invasive shrubs like honeysuckle, barberry and burning bush. Alien invasive plants are spreading all over town—they are probably growing in your own backyard. […]
No Car? Try Hopping the Bus!
By David Beers For whatever reason, you find yourself without access to a car in Norfolk. Should you stay home until you have access to a car again? Should you beg friends and family to borrow their car, or at least to give you a ride? This is a disconcerting prospect in a small […]
