Gridleys in Norfolk 50 Years Later
In Pursuit of Clean Air Rosanna Trestman In the tradition of city dwellers of the early 20th century who flocked to the country for the restorative value of its clean, cool air, in 1962, New Yorkers Bill and Barbara Gridley whisked their four-year-old son, who suffered from asthma, and his older sister, to Norfolk, CT. […]
State Education Bill Makes Ripples in Norfolk
Decrease in state’s funding for Botelle possible By Wiley Wood When the U.S. Department of Education parceled out $4.35 billion in 2010 to states whose schools showed measurable student gains, Connecticut failed to qualify. Its three neighbors—Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island—received almost $1 billion between them. The Education Reform Bill pushed through the Connecticut […]
Scouting for a Contiguous Wilderness
Norfolk Land Trust pursues purchase of Grantville Road property By Colleen Gundlach A 1957 newspaper clipping reported that the Bridgeport Area Girl Scout Old Timers Association sponsored a benefit card party to raise money “toward buying several acres of land for the new Girl Scout camp, Iwakta, at Norfolk,” to add to the small tract […]
Havemeyer Receives Doctorate
A degree 30 years in the making By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo There’s a new doctor in town. Not a general practitioner, but tireless Norfolk Historical Society Curator Ann Havemeyer, who received her Ph.D. from Yale University at their graduation ceremony on May 21. Her 250-page dissertation, “An Architect of Place and the Village Beautiful: Alfredo […]
More Healthy Life Choices Open to Norfolk residents
Joel Howard Norfolk is undergoing a fitness craze. From Pilates to yoga to Zumba at church, people have more venues to pump it up and shake it out than seen in the recent history of this town. A unique link in this chain is 7day recreationalists, a holistically designed exercise program devised by partners and […]
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Well, Almost
Town budget promises an inconsequential hike in taxes By Lloyd Garrison Norfolk’s Board of Finance Chairman, J. Michael Sconyers, may be no Santa Claus, but with a creative shift of funds from one column of the budget to another, he has given the town something to cheer about come tax time in 2012. The budget […]
New Arrest Warrants Issued in Curling Club Arson Case
Defendants charged with tampering with pump station valves By Lloyd Garrison There was supposed to be another hearing last week in Litchfield Superior Court to advance the case of the State vs. Mathew Carey and Kyle Majewski, but nothing went right for the two 19 year olds accused of multiple felonies that led to the […]
Lecture Offered on Conservation of Sandy Brook
An ambitious plan to protect the Sandy Brook watershed, a 17-mile expanse of land that crosses northeastern Norfolk as well as parts of Colebrook, Sandisfield, and other surrounding towns, is being spearheaded by Aton Forest. A broad coalition of land-preservation groups, municipalities, and landowners will be called on to bring this effort, known as the […]
Curling Club Starts to Rebuild
Fundraising Gears Up as Plans for New Curling House Go Out to Builders By Wiley Wood The rubble is gone. A long slab of concrete, painted with targets on either end and lying in a vacant lot on Golf Drive, is all that remains of the Norfolk Curling Club, which was torched by arsonists last […]
Colebrook-Norfolk School Merger Gets a Fresh Look
Joint Study Committee Holds First Meeting By Bob Bumcrot With primary-school enrollments projected to decline and per-student costs expected to rise over the next decade, a study committee has been formed to examine the possibility of a merger between the Norfolk and Colebrook schools. A first public meeting was held on April 10 at the […]
