Yale Summer Art and Music Schools Both Closed for 2020
By Ruth Melville Melvin Chen, director of the Yale Summer School of Music and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, has announced the “profoundly disappointing news” that, in light of the Covid-19 crisis, this summer’s season of the music school and the music festival has been canceled. Writing that “our primary concern is the safety and […]
Working to Keep Vital Supplies on the Grocery Store Shelves
By Doug McDevitt In October of 1929 a national catastrophe occurred when the stock market crashed putting millions of Americans out of work and causing absolute uncertainty about what was to come. For the next three and a half years, Americans struggled to survive. In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected the 32nd president of […]
Voices From the Pandemic: How Norfolk Is Responding to the Crisis
Throughout this issue, you’ll find articles about the coronavirus crisis and the ways that people in Norfolk are responding, whether they are working at patients’ bedsides, keeping grocery store shelves stocked, cooking meals to enliven the family’s day, sewing masks to give to their neighbors or keeping their children safe, happy and productive. But first […]
Many Went Bunny Hunting Through Town over Easter Weekend
Norfolk Bunny Hunt By Dave Beers Photos by Dave Beers This past Easter weekend (April 10-12) there was a bunny hunt in Norfolk. Residences and businesses set up Easter holiday displays both inside and outside as part of a town-wide socially-distant scavenger hunt for all ages. Over 60 addresses were listed on both a check-off […]
May, Down and Dirty Gardening
Through the Garden Gate Text and Illustration by Leslie Watkins Have you ever wished you had a vegetable garden but didn’t have the time? Well, now’s your chance. It’s not too late to break ground. All you need is a spade, preferably one with a straight edge, a hoe, some muscle, a tarp and any […]
Norfolk Resident Wins Award for Student Film
By Allysia RuggieroPhoto by Nicole Villalobos Elias Olsen graduated from Ithaca College this past December, with a degree in documentary studies. His course work was largely focused on film. A short film that he and his fellow students produced, called “Stew,” recently won an award at the Outer Docs Film Festival in Ithaca, N.Y. As […]
From Curbside to Virtual Shopping, Local Eateries Get Creative During Covid-19
By Kelly Kandra HughesPhoto by Clinton J. Sosna More than a month has gone by since Gov. Ned Lamont ordered the shutdown of Connecticut restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters. Several of the businesses in Norfolk and the surrounding communities that fall into these categories were faced with a seemingly insurmountable task: to keep their […]
Follow the Rules of the Road
Lots more people are out and about on Norfolk roads, and it’s become apparent that many don’t know the rules of the road. People walk on the wrong side, split up parties when cars approach so that people are on both sides of the road, and so on. This can be dangerous and reflects many […]
Thank you!
I want to send a big coronavirus pot-banging, bell-ringing shout-out to all the people who are keeping things going in Norfolk during these scary times. Here’s to the Road Crew and the Sewer District team and the Town Hall brigade; here’s to our great first responders of the ambulance and the fire department; here’s to […]
Open to Change
I read with some dismay the “No NIMBYism Here” letter in the April Issue of Norfolk Now. I had planned to send in my thoughts after seeing the March article about the Mountain Inn’s zoning request for a bakery cafe, but never got around to it. I grew up in Norfolk in the 1950s and […]
