Royal Arcanum to Be Sold
Buyers Still Formulating Plans By Andra Moss and Avice Meehan The historic Royal Arcanum building that has anchored Norfolk’s downtown area for more than a century will change hands for the second time since 2021 and be acquired by American Folk & Heritage LLC from the current owner, The Norfolk Hub (TNH). The agreement is […]
Haystack Woods Secures $4 Million
State funding gets affordable housing development off the ground By Joe Kelly A plan to build a campus of compact, affordable homes on 39 acres off Old Colony Road has cleared a major hurdle: the state of Connecticut has committed nearly $4 million to start construction. The state money, combined with a roughly $2 million […]
Bubble and Boil
Russell Russ explains sap collection and syrup making to visitors at Great Mountain Forest’s recent open house. Photo by Peter Chaffetz.
A New Ecosystem of Conservation Organizations for Norfolk
By Cheryl Heller People tend to conform to the boundaries that surround them, whether they are state lines or the social norms that shape behavior. But as Peter Senge, a systems scientist and author noted, “All boundaries, national boundaries included, are fundamentally arbitrary. We invent them and then, ironically, we find ourselves trapped within them.” […]
Norfolk’s Second Earth Forum Planned
Norfolk is community blessed with an abundance of natural and human resources, and they will come together on April 25-27 in a series of programs and activities that celebrate the natural world. This second Norfolk Earth Forum will have walks, talks, crafts for children at a variety of venues around town and culminate in a […]
Radio Norfolk?
Resident Hopes to Develop a Community Station By Colleen Gundlach With internet radio and streaming services available, do people turn the dial to listen to old-fashioned radio these days? Norfolk musician, writer and content producer Michael Cobb answers that question with a resounding “yes.” Cobb, who was a disc jockey at the Berkshire School’s radio […]
Real Estate Sales
On Feb. 20 from Gardenmaker LLC to Sara and Kyle Acuna, 181 Greenwoods Road West, for $292,000. On March 4 from Marybeth Y. McNamee to Nancy J. Lorenz and Douglas J. Schwalbe, 92 Goshen East Street and 3.5 acres across the street on Goshen East Street, for $875,000. On March 17 from Estate of Susan […]
Master Artisans Craft a Folk School
Tradition comes alive in South Berkshire By Andra Moss For many, a DIY home improvement project begins with a bit of Googling. If that project involves woodworking, they may well be directed to a series of videos from “The Garage with Steve Butler,” a program about woodworking that, at its peak, was carried on 800 […]
Selectman’s Corner
It’s a Waiting Game for Federal Funds By Matt Riiska With all the projects we currently have in process in Norfolk, I am asked if the federal budget cuts will affect our plans and what we can expect in the future. Federal funds received by the town are filtered through the State of Connecticut, so […]
Chronicles of Gastronomy
Bakers Knead, Rise and Eat By Avice Meehan One baker prepped her baguette dough in the cab of her pick-up truck while another set a timer to keep track of when turn the dough stashed under her office desk. Regardless of the approach taken, roughly a dozen people gathered on a March Thursday in the […]
