Cooperative Grocery Store Coming to Downtown Winsted
Mad River Market hoping to open by the end of 2018 By Colleen Gundlach Winsted used to have a variety of grocery stores from which to choose: the A&P on Main Street and later Willow Street; Liberty Market and Mencuccini’s on Main Street; Nichols Market on Park Place; Bruno’s and Toto’s up by the […]
Norfolk’s September 2017 Weather
Summer Overtime By Russell Russ Devastatingly powerful hurricanes and the resulting catastrophic damage affected much of the Caribbean and Florida for a good part of September. The Gulf Coast had its turn in August. Out west there were devastating wildfires. The pictures and stories showed the terrible side of Mother Nature. Here in Norfolk […]
Sam Messer’s Animated Film at Wadsworth Atheneum
Sam Messer’s animated film “Denis the Pirate” is now showing at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. Messer is well known in Norfolk as the director of the Yale Summer School of Art and for the drawing classes he offers in the summer. The story of “Denis the Pirate” began over twenty years ago when the […]
Community News
Exhibition of Leslie Watkins’s Prints The National Iron Bank in Norfolk will be presenting an exhibition of Leslie Watkins’s nature prints from Oct. 30 through Dec. 30. The illustrations are from Watkins’s gardening column “Through the Garden Gate,” published in Norfolk Now. The prints are hand painted and signed by the artist, and orders […]
Norfolk Then . . .
With plans for City Meadow moving forward, it’s time to look back to the 1890s when this photograph was taken. Battell Meadow, as it was then called, was a pastoral scene with stone walls, split-rail fencing and grazing cattle. The property belonged to Robbins Battell, who lived in Whitehouse, now part of the Stoeckel Estate. […]
View From the Green
To the Strains of “The Blue Danube” Waltz By Wiley Wood A winter carnival is in the works for Norfolk this year, on February 24 and 25, organized by the Weekend In Norfolk crew. And a winter carnival, inevitably, brings thoughts of skating parties. So it was not surprising that attention should turn again to the […]
Snafu Stops Work at City Meadow
Town encroaches on private property By Wiley Wood Construction on the City Meadow project was going according to plan. It was the first week of September, and a crew from SumCo Eco-Contracting, under contract from the town, was building a gravel path down the hillside below Haystack Pizza. The riprap imported by them extended […]
August 2017 Real Estate Transactions
On Aug. 7, 2017, 7.5 acres on Grantville Rd., from Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc. to Dale A. and Gail G. Savage, for $37,500. On Aug. 28, 2017, 45 Sunset Ridge Rd., from Fred and Phyllis M. Diggle to Paul Lussier and David Brizzolara, for $377,000. On Aug. 30, 2017, 67-69 Litchfield Rd., from Dean […]
BH Upcycled Designs Gives New Life to Old Clothing
By Ruth Melville We all know there’s too much waste in the modern world. The days of “make do and mend” are largely gone, and new clothing is available so cheaply that most people prefer to throw an old shirt out and buy a new one. But Norfolk Farmers Market vendor MaryLynne Boisvert takes […]
