Zone 4
Seasonal Care For The Cultivated Landscape By Martha Klein Gardeners talk about “putting the garden to bed” for winter, an apt metaphor for the living yet subdued garden tucked under its winter blanket of straw and mulch. Autumn is the time to foster soil conditions that lead to healthy spring plants. Fall yard and garden […]
It’s Only Natural
I Break For Insects By Shelley Harms October is the time when woolly bears cross the road. I mean the caterpillars (though a large actual bear was killed on Route 44 this summer). And yes, I watch for the little crawly bugs and, if I don’t brake, I at least try to steer so the […]
Eye On Town Government
Grants, Road Maintenance, Land Use, and Fiber-Optics Discussed By Wiley Wood At a selectmen’s meeting on August 6, First Selectman Sue Dyer reported that two grants the town had recently applied for had been denied: a Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP) grant from the state to renovate downtown sidewalks and a Main Street grant […]
Norfolk’s July Weather
Warmest Month on Record By Russell Russ July 2013 was a record breaker across New England. Many locations experienced their warmest month ever. The same was said after July 2012, but that month came in at only Norfolk’s seventh warmest. This year, however, Norfolk was not to be left out. Monthly averages for Stamford, Bridgeport, […]
Community Talent Provides After-School Program for Botelle Students
By Janet Gokay Life in Norfolk is greatly enriched by the work of volunteers—and the Norfolk After School Program (NASP) is no exception. Coordinated by two parent volunteers, Kim Crone and Kathy Yelsits, the program offers a potpourri of classes to any grade-school-aged child in Norfolk, not just those attending Botelle. Many of those classes […]
Norfolk’s June Weather
Wettest June and Fifth Wettest Month on Record By Russell Russ We all thought May was a wet month. Then June came in and nearly doubled May’s rainfall total. It was the wettest June and the fifth wettest month in the last 82 years here in Norfolk. The previous June record was topped by June […]
Out and About
Canaan’s Lynn Nania Organizes A Whirlwind of Summer Fun By Colleen Gundlach Lynn Nania can be found most mornings between June 24 and August 9 enthusiastically greeting children at North Canaan’s unique summer program, Camp AHA! She welcomes each child by name as they arrive, eager for a day of fun. After talking with Nania […]
Norfolk’s May Weather (and an early look at June)
By Russell Russ May picked up right where late April left off, giving Norfolk some beautiful weather. From mid-April to May 7 it was clear and dry with pleasant temperatures. The lovely weather ended May 8 when the rains began. Spotty frost in the area was reported on May 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 26 […]
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 […]
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 […]
