Repairs to Water Main Stretch to Three Days
Repairs to a leaking water main next to Route 44 in downtown Norfolk began on Tuesday, May 15, when a crew from John J. Brennan Construction in Shelton, Conn. tore up the side of the road just east of Grant Street. Discovering that the pipe was under the sidewalk, they came back the next day […]
Norfolk’s April 2018 Weather
Prolonged Winter By Russell Russ April began cool and snowy and it stayed that way throughout most of the month. Warm and beautiful early spring days were few and very far between this April. It was more like winter was the unwanted guest that just would not leave the party. Late March showed signs […]
Best in Show: Norfolk
By Janet G. Mead “So you think your dog’s got talent?” was the hook Ellie Crone, 15, and Kendra Link, 14, came up with to lure donors to their benefit for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, held Saturday, May 26, at Botelle School—and it worked! More than 60 people and 20 dogs were in […]
Yale Summer School of Art: A Celebration and a Farewell
By Ruth Melville This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, and the 20th year under the directorship of Sam Messer, a professor and former associate dean at the Yale University School of Art. Housed in the Art Barn on the Battell Stoeckel Estate, the summer program is […]
Celebrating a Housing Project’s Completion
The Foundation for Norfolk Living will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the six new rental units recently created at its Shepard Road properties and the six more recently renovated on Greenwoods Road East. This project is the fruit of many years’ labor and was supported by a sizable grant from the State of Connecticut. […]
Norfolk Then
This photograph by Marie Kendall was digitized from the glass plate negative she made with her view camera in the 1890s. By scanning the original negative, we are able to see the remarkable details of the scene, such as the train in the background, crossing the Litchfield Road overpass (look for the blur just below […]
Community News
An Extraordinary Legacy: The Photographs of Marie H. Kendall, from June 2 The Norfolk Historical Society & Museum opens its 2018 season on June 2 with an exciting look at Norfolks’ own 19th-century photographer. Marie Kendall arrived in Norfolk in 1884 just as Norfolk was undergoing a transformation from mill town to bustling summer colony. […]
Finding True Southern Barbecue and a Touch of History in Burrville
Out and About By Colleen Gundlach There are few restaurants in the area that can say they prepare their entire menu fresh daily, and even fewer that start cooking the day’s food at 5:45 a.m. For Lou and Gina Gabriel, however, this is their reality, because developing the deep, rich flavors of barbecue takes […]
Sewer District Votes to Proceed With Repairs
Assumes 40-year loan By Wiley Wood On Wednesday, May 16, members of the Norfolk Sewer District voted unanimously to embark on a $4.2 million renovation of the sewer collection system in the center of town, assuming a collective debt that will cost them $100,000 per year for the next 40 years to pay off. […]
Peeping at Spring Leaf-Out
Local observation station is longtime contributor to national network By Wiley Wood The three spindly lilac bushes growing near the cooperative weather station on Windrow Road don’t look like much, but they are an unusually well-documented trio of plants. Not the common lilac, which is more lushly flowered, they are a clone, Syringa chinensis […]
