From Puppy to Assistance Dog
ECAD provides animals and training that help change lives Text and Photo by Jude Mead Some people are great at seeing a situation and assessing ways to solve it. Lu and Dale Picard are two such people. In 1995, the couple founded ECAD, the East Coast Assistance Dogs facility. According to Ms. Picard, ECAD was […]
NVFD Awards Twelve Scholarships
Each year, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) awards scholarships to local students, with funds raised by the annual Memorial Day Road Race. This year they were able to award $500 to seven graduating high school seniors, $500 to four college students and one $1,000 to Caroline Crone who was Valedictorian of her class. The […]
Identifying Invasive Plants in Norfolk’s Village Center
Conservation Commission to lead inventory walk By Martha KleinPhoto by Bruce Frisch November is a perfect time of year to identify and remove invasive plants in Norfolk, because the fall color changes make some of these plants very visible. For example, the plant Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) is an invasive shrub seen along roadsides near woods, and […]
Breathing New Life into an Historical Landmark
Crissey Place has a new owner By Doug McDevitt Sometimes a good thing just can’t be kept down, even in the form of a house. A very old house. It’s located just inside the village green as you travel north towards Maple Street. It’s the first house you see on your right and it is […]
Remembering Larkin Hasbrouck
Larkin Mead Hasbrouck died at age 86 on Oct. 22, 2019. He was the first-born child of Richard and Katherine Hasbrouck of Bronxville, N.Y. He had two younger sisters, Tryntje and Jane. Larkin’s youth was spent between Philadelphia, Penn., where he graduated from Friends Central High School and Norfolk, Conn., where his family had their summer home. In 1955, […]
September 2019 Weather
The Arrival of Autumn By Russell Russ The first half of September was about normal for temperatures, September temperatures that is. It was a mostly cloudy first half of the month with normal amounts of rainfall. It was a noticeable change from the near non-stop warm and beautiful weather Norfolk had experienced since June. The […]
Norfolk Then…
Still standing today at the south end of the Green (but without the front porch), Crissey Place was one of several early 20th century hostelries in Norfolk. It was owned and operated by Miss Cora Brown and named after the Crissey family, who had lived there for almost 100 years. Opening in the 1920s, it […]
