A Leisurely Stroll on the Boardwalk
Photo by Jon Barbagallo While cleaning up after drill night at the firehouse, members saw this bear lumber through their back parking lot area into the boardwalk of the city meadow. Chief Matt Ludwig and Assistant Chief Jon Barbagallo kept an eye on the bear as it went to investigate the dumpsters behind Infinity Hall. […]
A Tale of Two Halves
Norfolk’s May Weather By Russell Russ Norfolk’s May weather this year can be summed up as being a month with a split personality. The first half of May was cold with some snow. April’s cooler than normal weather spilled over into early May. The second half of the month turned much more seasonable with warm […]
Moonlight Serenade
Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson When one looks up at our moon, consider the number of moons that continue to be discovered in our solar system. The inner planets─Mercury and Venus─ both lack a moon. Our Earth has one moon, Mars has two moons-Deimos and Phobos. From there the number of moons increases. Uranus has […]
Payroll Protection Program Lending Period Is Over
Additional legislation relaxes terms for paying back loans By Ruth Melville The Payroll Protection Program (PPP), part of the $2 trillion stimulus bill passed to help businesses weather the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, has come to an end. The deadline for the second round of funding was June 30, and National Iron […]
A Beautiful Piece of Norfolk History in the Woods
The bridge at Campbell Falls By Andra Moss During pre-Revolutionary War days, an early Connecticut entrepreneur, John Campbell, operated a grist-mill alongside a powerful cascade that he may never have imagined would still bear his name three centuries later: Campbell Falls. Today, those falls are part of the Campbell Falls State Park, although some might […]
Norfolk Library Offers Summer Reading Program for Adults
Will focus on Black authors By Kelly Kandra Hughes On Sunday, June 7, during the peace rally on Village Green to support Black Lives Matter, Rev. Erick Olsen asked the Norfolk community to make four commitments to the movement: 1.) Support black-owned businesses and black artists; 2) Respond in person to any racism, including jokes, […]
Norbrook Brewery, a Place of Refuge from Stresses of the World
Food trucks are now an added feature By Doug McDevitt In March we went into a lockdown. Boarded everything up. Donned our masks and only ventured out for necessities. Many thought well, it’ll only be for a couple weeks, it’ll pass soon enough. Over three months later, we’re still grappling with a new way of […]
Cleaning, Burning, Construction, and Relaxing at Tobey
Selectman’s Corner by Matt Riiska We are four months into the Coronavirus and I want to thank everyone for their patience and diligence. It has not been easy, but it is good to see people wearing masks when in public and doing their best to practice social distancing. Tobey Pond has been open since June […]
Sourdough Adventures in Confinement
Notes from a French Kitchen By Marie-Christine Perry As strange as it is for Frenchwomen to tackle bread making, seeing as we are never more than a half block away from a great bakery in French towns and even small villages have their own bakers with pain au levain available everywhere, I had dabbled in trying my […]
International Art Exhibition Has Two Locations in Norfolk
Re-creation of a 1990 sculpture is made out of hundreds of fortune cookies By Ruth Melville The Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres died of complications from AIDS in 1996, when he was only 38 years old. But this spring, inspired in part by the coronavirus pandemic, the Andrea Rosen and David Zwirner galleries, working on behalf […]
