August Board of Selectman Meeting
By Ruth Melville The health effects of the Covid pandemic continue to keep us all concerned. With that said, we are asking everyone to please continue to heed the advice of the CDC and health professionals: wear a mask in enclosed public spaces, wash your hands frequently and if you have not yet received your […]
Artist’s Workshop Coming to Town
By Jude Mead When Hilary VanWright sees an opportunity that will benefit her community, she goes after it. That is exactly what happened when she learned about a grant from the Artist Fellowship Program. Fellowship awards provide recognition and funding support for Connecticut artists and are highly competitive. VanWright, however, was confident in her idea […]
Looking Into Our Universe’s Past
The Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson The James Webb Space Telescope, weighing more than seven tons, is scheduled to be launched in late September or October by a European Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana, very close to the earth’s equator. The most important aspect in the telescope’s name […]
Family Night on the Village Green
Jenna Brown and her children Jackie and Julianna enjoy an evening of art with Hilary VanWright and music by The Deep North on a perfect August “Friday Night on the Green”. — Photo By of Joey Vasaturo
Library Launches Children’s Literature Festival
By Kelly Kandra Hughes One of the Norfolk Library’s most successful Fall 2020 programs featured noted children’s historian Dr. By the next day, they were brainstorming ways to bring Dr. Marcus back. The discussion grew into a new idea—what if, instead of a single lecture, the library hosted a children’s literature celebration? They could make […]
The New Tobey Pond Shed Has Arrived
Norfolk Benefits from Eagle Scout Project By David Beers Only 4 percent of scouts ever achieve the highest rank—Eagle Scout. Ethan Perlman is now part of this select group by completing his community service project: a new Tobey Pond lifeguard shed. A year ago, Perlman had hit a roadblock in getting town wetlands and zoning […]
Community News
Picnic on the Green Join the Norfolk Foundation on the village green for burgers, hotdogs, ice cream and music by Grant Mudge on Friday, Sept. 3, at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the end of summer and the successful “Fridays on the Green” series. Bring Your Own Chair. Gil Eisner Exhibit at the Norfolk Library Paintings, drawings […]
Norfolk Then…
With poplars and maple trees lining the sidewalk, Station Place presented a bucolic setting to the visitor arriving at the newly constructed railroad station (center) in the early 20th century. One could hardly guess that an impressive business boom was under way, heralded in the local paper as the biggest boom Norfolk had ever witnessed. […]
A Great Year for the Perseids
The Celestial Sphere By Matthew Johnson The upcoming Perseid meteor shower may prove to be one of the best meteor showers of the year. At its peak on the night of Aug. 11, it may display as many as 60 to 100 meteors per hour. Comets leave behind particles as they travel through our solar […]
New Accordion Museum Has a Tight Squeeze on History
by Andra Moss “Whoa!” This is the delighted response of visitor after visitor upon stepping inside the New England Accordion Connection & Museum Company (NEACMC), newly opened in the historic Canaan Union Depot railroad station alongside the railroad museum and Great Falls Brewing Company. The word does pretty much capture the experience: the museum’s large […]
