Letters
Cheers to the Pub “Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name…and they’re always glad you came.” We all remember the familiar “Cheers” jingle from the 80s. But for a few of us Norfolkians, the ballad rings true. The news of the Speckled Hen Pub closing its doors was very sad for us. The […]
Letters
Turtle-Bitten Like most locals. I am excited about the spring opening of Infinity Hall as a music venue and restaurant in the old Apple House building. It is interesting to note, however, that this ambitious enterprise, with its proposed 200 concerts a year (and the accompanying traffic, noise, parking problems and who knows what else) which could radically change the character […]
Letters: Making Station Place One-Way
One Way Street? Not So Fast, Please As a resident of downtown Norfolk, I have been following the town’s planning for commercial development with considerable interest. I live in a single family residence at the north end of Station Place, where it is still John J. Curtiss Rd., and as it meets Shepard Rd., Emerson […]
Letters
A Not So Very Merry My yearly Christmas eve sojourn to Connecticut begins in Norfolk where the topography reminds of my home at the North Pole. But lo, on the night of December 24, 2007 as I swooped down from the Berkshires ho-hoing away, my reindeer became lost and disoriented. We cut a […]
