Community News
Fall Classes at Taconic Learning Center Taconic Learning Center is pleased to announce a return to classes in September via Zoom. Zoom is easy and accessible and TLC will offer three short introductory sessions in early September for those who wish to preview the process. More detail on courses, schedule, membership and online registration information […]
Norfolk Then…
This house was built by Robbins Battell Stoeckel in 1907, one of two houses still standing side by side on Litchfield Road designed by the architect Ehrick K. Rossiter. Robbins was the brother-in-law of Ellen Battell Stoeckel, who founded the Norfolk Musical Festival, and the son of Gustave Stoeckel, German immigrant and Professor of Music […]
Letters, August 2020
Norfolk’s Black Lives Matter Protest: Responses to the July Editorial I was reading the July issue of the Norfolk Now and, at first glance, was very pleased to see that the recent Norfolk BLM protests had made the cover. However, once I began the column written by Colleen Gundlach, I was quickly disappointed in her take […]
Hatsy Robinson Taylor, 1932-2020
Harriet “Hatsy” Robinson Taylor, 87, of East Canaan, a gardening author and columnist who chronicled the trials and triumphs of life on a hilltop farm in northwest Connecticut, died July 5 at Geer Village in Canaan. Hatsy began writing about gardening in 1982 with the debut of her column “Hilltop Harvest,” which was published for […]
Walking Carefully, Being Good Neighbors and Supporting Farmers
By Matt Riiska The number of walkers and runners on the roads in Norfolk seems to have increased over the last few months, which is a good thing. I want to remind everyone that when you are out for your walk please walk facing traffic. You have a much better view of oncoming traffic, and […]
Norfolk Then
Miss Anna Thompson built her Shingle Style “cottage” on Laurel Way in 1894. By then, Norfolk had become a popular summer resort, and the arrival of summer visitors and residents was announced weekly in the local paper. On May 9, 1895, it was reported that “Miss A. K. Thompson who keeps a select boarding school […]
Community News
Nonlethal Management of Beavers On Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Mike Callahan, president of the Beaver Institute, will discuss beavers, their ecological importance and how to successfully manage beaver problems when they occur. Since 1998 he has personally resolved over 1,700 human-beaver conflicts. Callahan will present a new Beaver Institute program designed […]
View From the Green
Peaceably to Assemble By Colleen Gundlach “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The rights addressed in […]
Making Fiber Optics Affordable
I read with interest about the possible plan to bring high-speed internet via fiber optic transmission lines. However, unless the plan includes no-cost wiring to connect to users’ homes and businesses, many could find themselves priced out. We inquired to Frontier Communications earlier this year about installing high-speed cable to our house. Since the cable […]
Respect the Road
Norfolk Speaks By Tom Hodgkin I can hear it from more than a quarter mile back. It’s a barely-muffled pickup, with knobby, off-road tires. I grip my handlebars tighter and steer onto the white line at the side of the road. Six inches to my right, the shoulder disintegrates into loose dirt and vegetation; if […]
