November, A Room With a View
Through the Garden Gate Text and Illustration by Leslie Watkins In the nature loving-town we live in, enjoying the surrounding natural beauty doesn’t pause in winter. The sparkling landscape exposed by absent foliage affords a better view of the underlying design. Spending more time inside looking out encourages us to improve on the views we […]
Commission to Revise Natural Resources Inventory
2009 Document Due for an Update by Jeremy Withnell Here in Norfolk we are lucky to be surrounded by an enormous amount of natural resources. To even begin to document the many denizens of our woods and waters would take a similarly enormous effort. Fortunately, that work has already been done, in the form of […]
Norfolk Community Food Pantry in Need
Letter to the Editor The number of requests for food from the Norfolk Community Food Pantry has more than doubled in the last five weeks. Although we can’t be sure, we suspect the increase is due to the end of supplemental unemployment benefits. With such increased demand, we are in need of food and dollar […]
CARES Grants for Small Businesses
Letter to the Editor Norfolk’s small businesses and nonprofits affected by the coronavirus pandemic may be eligible for onetime $5,000 grants from the state’s new $50 million CT CARES Small Business Grant Program. Funds will be disbursed by the end of this year. Information about who is eligible is on the Department of Economic and […]
Adventures in Community-Supported Agriculture
Notes From a French Kitchen Text and Photo by Marie-Christine Perry Early last spring, since my partner Cheryl was going to be working from home because of the pandemic and there would be two of us living full-time here in Norfolk, we decided that to make sure we had access to fresh vegetables and fruits, […]
Norfolk Firefighters Log Thousands of Hours Despite Pandemic
The Little Engines That Could by Colleen Gundlach This year has been one for the record books for everyone, and the members of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) are no exception. It started off as any other year, with members responding to emergencies as well as attending training sessions and managing fundraisers. Fire Chief […]
The Princeton Tigers Come to Norfolk – in 1907
A Look Into Norfolk’s Past Text by Andra MossPhoto courtesy of Princeton Tigers Football November 1907—another beautiful autumn in Norfolk. Cue the foliage, firepits and front-page football on Mountain Road. In the early 1900s, college football was the second most popular sport in the nation behind professional baseball, with tens of thousands rattling the bleachers […]
Sights in the November Sky
The Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov. 1 at 2 a.m. With the Sun now setting more than an hour earlier and rising an hour later than in June, additional hours of darkness extend the length of time in which one can observe. Astronomers look forward to the late fall […]
Some Residents Surprised by Higher Tax Assessments of Older Vehicles
Is your old car a “classic?” by Jeremy Withnall They say that the only sure things are death and taxes. In the Icebox of Connecticut, we could probably add snow to that list. When winter storms pack more wallop and we get a few more inches than the forecasters predicted, the hardy folk of the […]
Warm Heads, Warm Hearts
Thanks to the generosity of John Thew and the nimble fingers of the Norfolk Library knitters, there will be more warm heads this winter. Last month the knitters heard about a project, called Warm Heads, Warm Hearts, being organized by Amanda Barcenas, who owns Prado de Lana, a sheep farm and yarn shop in Stockbridge. […]
