Kenny Funeral Home Closes Norfolk Site
Letter to the Editor It is with great sadness that we announce that the Kenny Funeral Homes, Maple Avenue, Norfolk, will be closing its doors after 30 years of business. It has been a true pleasure to serve the families of Norfolk and beyond during their times of loss. The Kenny Funeral Homes has been […]
“A World Without Insects is a World Without People.” E.O. Wilson
Pollinators Imperiled by Susannah Wood The declining population of monarch butterflies, those champions of migration, has been well-documented over recent years, but has only become more dire. Between 1996 and 2020, 88 percent of the eastern population of monarchs has disappeared. In the western group the situation is even worse; only a few thousand remain. […]
It’s Black Currant Season Time for Créme de Cassis
Notes from a French Kitchen By Marie-Christine Perry June is the month black currants come into their own, and therefore, for me, crème de cassis making time! I have in the past bought black currants at my local green market in Brooklyn, where the Korean-American farmer was only too glad to keep his little crop for me, […]
Iacino Resigns as Norfolk Tax Assessor
Is taking full-time job in Winsted by Susan MacEachron Tax Assessor Cory Iacino, who was hired as a shared resource by Norfolk and Colebrook in the fall of 2019 when long-time Assessor Michele Sloan retired, has accepted a full-time position in Winsted. Her last day in Norfolk was June 22. For the past six months […]
Happy Second Birthday to Norfstroms!
Happy second birthday to Norfstroms! Norfolk’s very own swap shop located at the transfer station is a collaborative projective between Town Hall and Norfolk NET. Volunteers like Kelly (left) and Bill (right) keep Norfstroms going through the year. Norfstroms accepts gently used, working items in need of a new home – nothing larger than a […]
Harmony Online
by Janet Gokay Mead During the pandemic, the Norfolk Library stepped up to the plate with a host of online programs: art shows, mindfulness classes, studio tours, book groups. In the dead of winter a group of six intrepid souls signed up for one of the library’s more unusual Zoom classes: Harmonica I. The results […]
Highly Ranked for Rainfall
Norfolk’s May Weather by Russell Russ May started out cooler than normal and through mid-month was very much on the cool, cloudy and rainy side. The raw feel made many people wonder where early summer was. Conditions changed towards the middle of the month with warmer temperatures and sunnier skies. That was right up until […]
Babies and Bears on the Green
Photo by Janet Gokay Mead For the second Family Friendly Friday Fun Night, the Norfolk Land Trust sponsored a talk on a topic of increasing interest to everyone: bears. Certified Wildlife Master Conservationist Paul Colburn delighted a group of kids and their parents with his presentation on bears in Connecticut—their habitat, diet, behavior, and reproduction […]
Micrometeorites in Norfolk
Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson A meteor is a small body of matter from outer space that becomes incandescent and appears as a streak of light due to friction when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteor that survives the Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the ground. Most are of rocky matter, however, […]
