Weekend in Norfolk 2.0
All photos by Bruce Frisch. Photo at top: Schuyler Thomson at work restoring a classic canvas-covered canoe.
View From the Green
Change: A Challenge And an Opportunity By Ruth Melville Norfolk Now is losing one of its longest-serving and most highly valued editors. After 10 years as an executive editor of the paper, Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo has decided to retire. Lindsey joined the paper in 2006 to take over distribution, but she was quickly writing […]
Department of Transportation Proposes New Road Safety Measures
Citizens action group formed to slow traffic through Norfolk By Wiley Wood Norfolk is a town cut in two by an arterial road. If you walk from the village green to the Norfolk Library or to Station Place—as many residents and Yale Music School students do—you take your life in your hands crossing Route […]
Earth Moving Equipment Enters City Meadow
An excavator was pawing at the ground on the morning of Wednesday, August 16, in the hollow below Station Place, and a line of erosion barriers stretched along the surrounding slopes—construction on the City Meadow park in downtown Norfolk has finally begun. Over the next 65 days, construction crews will dig a small pond near […]
Town to Propose Enforcement Authority for P & Z
Commission could impose fines for zoning violations By Wiley Wood If your neighbor starts renting out his house for all-night wedding celebrations or clogs up his driveway and front lawn with junked cars, your recourse—when a neighborly chat proves ineffective—is to file a complaint with the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission (P & Z). […]
Faces at the Farmers Market
Woven Stars Farm, Food With a Conscience By Wiley Wood On a typical day, Emerson Martin and Lizzie Galeucia bring pasture-raised eggs, raw honey, oyster mushrooms and heirloom tomatoes to the farmers market in Norfolk. In the fall they will add frozen cuts of lamb and goat. Diversity is part of their plan, and […]
Without a Car in Norfolk?
Dial-A-Ride is Curb to Curb and Available to Everyone By David Beers On Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m., a little bus picked me up at my house to take me wherever I wanted to go, whether shopping, dining, medical appointments or any other appointments in northwest Connecticut. The round trip cost was $2.50, regardless […]
Daimler Benz Comes to Berkshire Country Store
One of the many attractions at Norfolk’s Berkshire Country Store is the vintage vehicle on display inside. In August, the 1893 Duryea was removed from the building and delivered to a new owner. In its stead has been placed this reproduction of an 1886 Daimler Benz, the first four-wheeled automobile in the world. Photo by […]
Norfolk’s Much-Decorated Fire Engine 90 is Retiring
NVFD to bid farewell to state champion pumper truck By Sally Quale Engine 90, Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department’s (NVFD) award-winning, 30-year-old pumper truck, is scheduled to be retired and replaced this fall. It has served well as a highly versatile pumper, whose smaller size and four-wheel drive enables it to reach fires at the […]
Letter to The Editor
Traffic Calming: A simple solution We’re all guilty… whether we are running late, mind brimming with too many things to do or just not really paying attention because you’re singing along to your favorite tune on the radio. Speeding through town has turned into a real issue: the trucks are going so fast on Route […]
