Local Family Starts Goat Cheese Production
The Guindons of Lost Ruby Farm By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Adair Mali and Antonio Guindon bought their first goat shortly after returning from a year-long trip to Guindon’s homeland of Costa Rica in 2009. Goats were everywhere during Guindon’s youth, and he swore to never own the “loud, stinky animals”, but one of his daughters […]
Colebrook Store Nears Reopening
By Bob Bumcrot “Even if everything isn’t in place, we will open in July,” said Miriam Briggs, the new proprietor of the Colebrook Store. Some refreshments will certainly be available for the Independence Day long weekend. Briggs and her sons, Quentin,14, and Francis,12, frequently drove from their former home in Saint Johnsbury, Vt., to her […]
Colebrook Wind Farm in Legal Limbo
State Supreme Court decision may come in the fall By Veronica Burns BNE Energy, Inc.’s plans to build three 492-ft tall turbines on Flagg Hill Road and another three on nearby Rock Hall Road in Colebrook, Conn., are currently in an appeals holding pattern. Nicholas Harding, attorney for the plaintiffs, says he expects oral argument […]
Fundraising Underway for Restoration of the Music Shed
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival teams up with Norfolk Artists and Friends By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Concert goers at Yale Summer School of Music and Art this summer will have the unique opportunity to purchase a chair in the music shed. A $250 donation ensures your name engraved on a metal plaque affixed to an actual […]
NORFOLK 2023! to Explore Town’s Future in Fall
Anniversary of Norfolk Now to focus on next decade By Lloyd Garrison The editors of Norfolk Now will mark the paper’s tenth anniversary in October by inviting the town to attend NORFOLK 2023!, an event that will begin with entertaining presentations followed by a serious exploration of how residents would like the town to develop […]
Village Hall to Infinity
Community Landmark Celebrates 130 Years By Michael Kelly On Sunday, June 30 at 2 p.m., New York’s renowned Blue Hill Troupe will present a concert version of their highly acclaimed rendering of Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta, “The Mikado”, at Infinity Hall. The concert has two purposes. One is to benefit the Norfolk Historical Society. The […]
Eye on Town Government
Marginally Higher Budget and Mill Rate Approved at Annual Town Meeting By Wiley Wood The citizens of Norfolk approved a budget at the annual town meeting on May 13. Total spending on education and general government is to rise by 1.2 percent. The mill rate is rising four hundredths of a mill to 20.22, adding […]
Brother and Sister Innkeeper Team
Norfolk’s Romantic Hideaway under New Management By Colleen Gundlach Connecticut’s “most romantic hideaway,” according to The Discerning Traveler newsletter, is under new management. Oversight of the Manor House on Maple Avenue has returned to the hands of Norfolk natives, the brother and sister team of Holly Kelsey and Michael Sinclair. Sinclair recently retired from 25 […]
Town War Monuments Illuminated
Lighting funded by Norfolk Community Association By Doreen Kelly At dusk this past Memorial Day, the Norfolk Village Green became a little brighter. The two war memorials located there are now dramatically lit as a constant reminder of the brave Norfolk men and women who have served this country. The first monument is a 24-foot […]
It’s Only Natural
Connecticut Biologists Create Habitat for the Endangered New England Cottontail By Wiley Wood “You can’t miss it. It’s a 57-acre hole in the forest,” says Paul Rothbart, a project manager with the Connecticut State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. He is giving directions to a tract of state land in Goshen that, with the […]
