Allen Trousdale (1940-2020)
Allen Trousdale, an architect and world traveler, died at his home in Norfolk on Feb. 21. He was 79 years old and divided his time between Norfolk and Brooklyn. Born in Monroe, Louisiana on Dec. 2, 1940, to parents Briscoe and Frances (Miller) Trousdale, Allen attended Tulane University, graduating in 1963 with a degree in […]
Eve V. Thew (1927-2020)
Eve Thew died on Feb. 3 at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. She was 92 and had been married to her husband, John Thew, for nearly 69 years. The daughter of Edward Van de Water and Eve Jacoby, Eve was born in New York City on March 14, 1927, but moved with her parents to […]
Selectman’s Corner
The Budget, Our Trash, Bridge Building and a New Employee by Matt Riiska Like spring, budget season is upon us again. As usual we will make every effort to keep the 2020/21 budget as low as we can. This will not be easy this year with the State keeping their funds to the towns to […]
French Choir Joins Salisbury Sinfonietta for Norfolk Performance
by Marie-Christine Perry The weekend of April 26 will see the return of what might well become a tradition, the joint concert of a Parisian choir with the regional Salisbury Sinfonietta Festival Choir. Two years ago, the collaboration of Jack Bowman, the Salisbury choir director, and Dominique Fanal, the conductor of the Sinfonietta de Paris, […]
Turning Garbage Into Electricity Gets More Expensive
State reaches a decision point on funding MIRA by Wiley Wood “Shipping our garbage out to Pennsylvania, Ohio, or West Virginia is not an option,” says Matt Riiska, Norfolk’s first selectman. “It’s our problem, we should be taking care of it.” Right now, Norfolk’s garbage, about 800 tons of it a year, is hauled by […]
The Wuhan Coronavirus
by Richard Kessin Of the scourges that the natural world can throw at us, a new and lethal virus is one of the most frightening. At first we don’t know where the virus came from, what proportion of victims it will kill, how to treat it, or how far and fast it will spread. Viral […]