Botelle Fine Tunes at Mid-Year
By Avice Meehan The Board of Education received a mid-year snapshot of student performance and growth from Botelle Principal Lauren Valentino at its Feb. 24 meeting as part of a packed agenda that also included reports on completion of elevator repairs and praise for the “Blizzard of Fun” program during Weekend in Norfolk. Staff and […]
Wetlands Agency Chides Town for Significant Tree Removal Without Notice
By Susan MacEachron The matter of significant tree removal along Ashpohtag Road and Doolittle Drive by the Norfolk Department of Public Works (DPW) without prior notice to the Inland Wetlands Agency was addressed by First Selectman Henry Tirrell at the Inland Wetlands Agency meeting on Feb. 2. He also updated agency members on the Connecticut […]
Norfolk Reads Leopold
By Andra Moss On Sunday, March 8, 20 members of the Norfolk community will come together at the Norfolk Library to read selections from visionary conservationist Aldo Leopold’s book, “A Sand County Almanac.” The event is made possible by a grant from the Aldo Leopold Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to carrying forward Leopold’s environmental […]
Chance Comment Yields Historic Gown
By Avice Meehan It was a hot August day, nearly six years ago, when Barry Webber found himself inside a dumpster in Litchfield looking for something unexpected: An evening gown commissioned in the 1870s by a young Alice Eldridge from the House of Worth in Paris while she and her sister, Isabella, were on a […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Norfolk but Didn’t Know Where to Ask
By Colleen Gundlach There really is no longer any reason for Norfolk residents to not know how the town operates, who is on any given board or committee in town, or what was discussed and decided at such board and committee meetings. If you have a computer and internet access, the whole town is an […]
Choral Singing Meets Bluegrass
LCCU welcomes all ages to sing new styles By Andra Moss The Litchfield County Choral Union (LCCU) is entering its 127th concert year with decidedly youthful energy. Under the direction of Music Director Dr. Gabriel Löfvall, the LCCU will convene a youth choral festival in Norfolk in late spring; offer a series of choral seminars […]
Winter Weekend In Norfolk
It was a cold and blustery weekend, but that didn’t stop the hardy from coming out on Feb. 21 and 22 for Winter WIN, the weekend for enjoying all things Norfolk in the winter season. The photos below show a story of a town that came together to strut its stuff for the world to […]
The Celestial Sphere
March Skies and the Vernal Equinox By Matthew Johnson It has been an unusually cold winter, even by Norfolk standards. The constellations of Orion, and Canis Major, the great hunter and his dog, must have struggled during those frigid nights to rise in the east and traverse the southern meridian to set in the west […]
It’s Only Natural
Planting with Bare Root Stock is a Win-Win-Win By Susannah Wood While March can be cold and forbidding, the month officially kicks off spring and rouses us out of dormancy. Many of us start thinking about our yards and gardens in earnest. The Norfolk Nature Alliance is organizing a year-long effort to promote planting for […]
Get the PFAS Out of Our Woods
By Susannah Wood The recent ouster of three athletes at the Olympics for using ski/snowboard waxes containing PFAS (forever chemicals) should be a wakeup call to all of us who enjoy winter fun here in the Northwest Corner. If you have old cross-country ski wax hanging around, it may well contain these dangerous substances because […]
