Botelle Beat
A Busy Month! By Kim Crone The school year is in full swing, and the students, teachers, administration and volunteers are working hard to make this a great year. On October 2, as part of the Cultural Enrichment Program, Caryn Lin brought her electric violin to the Hall of Flags. Using innovative looping techniques, she […]
Whiting Mills Draws Visitors to Winsted
Renovated Factory Houses Art and Craft Studios By Colleen Gundlach Tucked away on a street behind the Winsted campus of Northwestern Connecticut Community College is an outwardly nondescript old factory building that is anything but nondescript on the inside. Driving up to the parking lot behind the building and walking inside will reward the visitor […]
The White Hart Inn: A Litchfield County Classic Comes Back to Life
By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo On a recent sun-kissed autumn day, every porch table at the White Hart Inn was filled to capacity by 12:15 p.m. Not bad considering the tap room doesn’t start serving lunch until noon, and it was a Tuesday. Safe to say, a lot of people are happy the iconic inn on […]
Norfolk’s September 2014 Weather
Driest on Record By Russell Russ From June through September this year, three of the four months were below average for rainfall. September was the driest September on record since regular recording began at the weather station in 1932. Many locations in Connecticut were in drought conditions for a good part of the summer into […]
Botelle Beat—October 2014
By Ann DeCerbo Botelle students and parents celebrated the beginning of the school year at a Welcome Back Ice Cream Social sponsored by the PTO. The event was held on the playground and ice cream was served by the school’s new administration, Superintendent Mary Beth Iacobelli and Principal Matt O’Connell. The school children have also […]
Lone Oak Campsites: 50 Years
The Browns of East Canaan celebrate semicentennial of family farm turned campground By Colleen Gundlach There was an air of excitement, friendship and festivity on August 16 in East Canaan as Lone Oak Campsites celebrated its 50th anniversary by throwing an all-day party for the people who have been a part of the business over […]
Eye on Town Government
Selectmen Make Provisions for Next Winter and Repair Damages from the Last By Robert Carter The Norfolk Board of Selectmen held its first monthly meeting of the new fiscal year on July 1. The Farmers Market has requested to use the upstairs at town hall twice a month from November through April. After considering a […]
Botelle Beat
New School Year At Botelle Begins August 27 By Ann DeCerbo Although students are out on break, it’s been anything but a quiet summer at Botelle. Over the past two months, the Norfolk Board of Education conducted searches and interviewed prospective candidates for both principal and superintendent. Newly-hired Principal Matthew O’Connell and Superintendent Mary Beth […]
The Botelle Beat
End of the Year Happenings By Ann DeCerbo At the end of each school year, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department arrives early one morning with a pumper truck to fill kiddie pools and buckets with water. This kicks off the annual Botelle School Field Day. Led by Botelle’s physical education teacher, Hannah Sobieski, Field Day […]
It’s Only Natural
Birth of a Fawn Bu Marie Lowe It is not often that people are privileged to view the miracle of new life in the natural world. My husband, West, and I were fortunate recently to do just that, in triplicate! While gazing out our bedroom window early one morning this past May, we noticed a […]
