Library Condemns Bigotry
Letter to the Editor Words are powerful tools and particularly harmful when used to marginalize others. The board and staff of the Norfolk Library were deeply disturbed when informed of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti near our facility. We condemn historic and ongoing systemic racism and bigotry in every form. The mission of the Norfolk Library is […]
Steeple Update
Letter to the Editor The steeple committee of the Church of Christ Congregational has now hired an engineering firm, GNCB, from Old Saybrook, who will design and make plans for the renovation. GNCB has a wealth of experience with historic preservation and will conform with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of […]
Suffragists Hit the Road to Norfolk
by Andra Moss Something special was in the air in August 1911. It was the sound of women’s voices rising, once again, to demand their right to vote. Decades of unsuccessful advocacy for women’s suffrage in Connecticut had left many discouraged at the turn of the 20th century, but by 1911 fresh winds were blowing. […]
Norfolk Filmmaker Goes to Cannes
Writer and director Diego Ongaro’s new film, “Down With the King,” which stars rapper and musician Freddie Gibbs, was accepted at Cannes this summer. In the film, which was shot in and around Norfolk last year, Gibbs plays a famous rapper who decides to quit the music business and move to a small farming community. […]
Free Community Supper
Photo by Marie-Christine Perry The Free Community Supper at the Church Of Christ Congregational on Tuesday, June 29, was a real success, with more than 50 attendees. An evening of community, healthful food and education, it pleased young and old alike and provided a welcome get-together for the Norfolk community after months of isolation. It […]
Combating the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
by Mattie Vandiver The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is an insect native to Japan that was first noted in Connecticut in 1985 when a foliage sample was brought to the research station in New Haven. Since then it has been an ongoing issue in Connecticut as well as many other states, although Norfolk has barely […]
Tom Hlas Has Signed, Sealed, and Delivered with Mail Art
Text by Kelly Kandra HughesPhoto by Tom Hlas Tom Hlas always knew he wanted to be an artist. Born and raised in Elberon, Iowa (population at the time about 100 people), Hlas remembers being four years old and playing with cars on his parents’ chenille bedspread. When his oldest sister, home from college, asked him […]
The Healing Nest Is a New Center for Wellness and Community
By Ruth Melville When Dianna Hofer was young, she was fascinated with the placebo effect and startled to learn that people normally use only 5 percent of their brains. In college, as she studied more about the mind, she began to think of it as “the greatest new frontier.” Four decades of continuing investigation into […]
Helping Hands Are Everywhere If You Know Where to Look
By Doug McDevitt Norfolk is a community, much like any other, where some neighbors are in great need but may not know where to go or whom to reach out to for help. The good news is that Norfolk has many avenues for people to discreetly receive help. One such avenue is Norfolk NET, short […]
Donations Pour in by the Cupful
Photo by Peter Chaffetz The moment rain clouds cleared on July 14, an enthusiastic consortium calling themselves the “Navigators” opened a summer classic, the sidewalk lemonade stand. Strategically positioned along the Town Hall driveway, the entrepreneurs/campers from the Norfolk Early Learning Center offered perfectly prepared lemonade (“It’s all about the stirring,” revealed one) in exchange […]
