Fire Department Adds a New Truck to Its Fleet
By Ruth Melville In January 2015, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) presented the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Finance with a request for $125,000 to buy a new utility truck. The Board of Finance denied the full request, but it did give the NVFD $20,000, and the department chipped in $26,000 […]
Tireless Library Volunteers Work to Document Everyone’s History
Norfolk’s Past and Present in Scrapbooks By Colleen Gundlach In the nondescript cabinets to the right of the fireplace in the Great Hall of Norfolk Library is tucked one of Norfolk’s unsung treasures. Here reside volumes that trace the folk history of the town, carefully cut, pasted and archived by dedicated volunteers. From birth […]
Isabella Players Showcase Native American History
It was a cold afternoon, and the roads were snowy, but a good-sized crowd was on hand in Battell Chapel to watch this year’s Isabella Eldridge Club play, written and directed by Jude Mead. On stage were four disparate women, all descendants of great Native American chiefs. Three are great-great-granddaughters—crisply tailored Hahanna (Louise Davis), […]
It’s Only Natural—March 2016
Art, Science and Nature in a Rite of Spring By Hans M. Carlson Last Sunday’s minus 19 degrees was a record, and I love that kind of cold, so I took a walk in the woods as soon as the sun rose. I came out at the east gate of Great Mountain Forest, and […]
Fresh Crop of EMR’s Joins Norfolk Ambulance
By Wiley Wood The sign next to the ambulance building on Route 44 reads “Volunteers Needed.” And this winter, the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance got a fresh influx of volunteers. Eleven people took the latest Emergency Medical Responder’s course, and seven of the newly minted EMR’s are expected to join the ambulance, according to […]
Looking at Fixes for the Regional Economy
Conference brings resource providers and town representatives together By Stephen Melville We were, Jocelyn Ayer explained as she opened the Northwest Connecticut Development Summit 2016, going to be speed-dating. Seated at tables that ran down both sides of the White Barn at South Farms in Morris, we were more than a hundred selectmen, local […]
Local Youth Group Hosts Conversation on Access to Healthy Foods
State legislators join in voicing concern By Julie Scharnberg The Norfolk Church of Christ Youth Group is determined to do something about food insecurity and food deserts. On the afternoon of January 31, 2016, the youth group hosted a community conversation at Battell Chapel to gather ideas. Special guests included State Representative Roberta Willis […]
After Paris and Sandisfield, a Novelist Comes to Norfolk
By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo “It’s like living on a campus,” novelist Courtney Maum says of her new house on the village green. “With the church bells ringing… and being able to walk to the library… it’s pretty great.” The library, and the hidden wet bar in their new home, actually were the greatest […]
Norfolk’s Schoolchildren Learn to Curl
The school bus pulls up, seven schoolchildren pour out, huddle briefly with their coach, David Beers, in the foyer of the Norfolk Curling Club, then fan out over the ice, broom in hand, gliding over the pebbled surface of the curling sheets. This is the Norfolk After School Program in action. The curling class, […]
A Playful Presence in the Woods
The North American River Otter By Wiley Wood The tracks look dog-like, big pugmarks in the snow coming up from the lake, crossing the ski trail and climbing the bank on the far side. But the coyote, if it is one, is dragging something heavy in its mouth, making a long, shallow dent in […]
