Community News — February 2020
Pamela Harnois Watercolors “Woodlands and Wildflowers,” an exhibit of the watercolors of Pamela Harnois, will be on display at the Norfolk Library during the month of February. An artist specializing in transparent watercolor, Harnois is a member of the New England Watercolor Society, Norfolk Artists and Friends and the Artisans Guild. She is known for her light […]
Jane Quintard Clark Byers, 1925-2020
Jane Quintard Clark Byers, 94, of Hamden and Norfolk, died Jan. 2 at Yale New Haven Hospital after a brief illness. Jane Byers was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Great Neck, Long Island, the daughter of the late Cyrus Clark II and Jane Hayden Quintard. She was a graduate of Great Neck High School, the […]
Charles Lenhart Fidlar
Charles L. Fidlar died on Dec. 14, 2019, at his home in Norfolk, Conn. with family by his side.Charles was born in Terre Haute, Ind., and moved to Hartford and Windsor, Conn. as a youth. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 17 years before settling in Norfolk. Charles graduated from Loomis School […]
Dorothea (Dede) Alford, 1949-2019
Alford Dorothea Blakeslee Alford (Dede) passed away on Dec. 5, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass., after a series of illnesses. She was born on Nov. 9, 1949, in Winsted, Conn., and had a lifelong love for Norfolk, spending many months and years on Doolittle Lake and in Norfolk itself. She also traveled widely, living in Tokyo […]
Bridge Repair and the Town Budget
Selectman’s Corner by Matt Riiska Two projects that we are working on are the Mountain Road Bridge and the River Place Bridge. Cardinal Engineering, who is doing the design and engineering work on the Mountain Road Bridge, held a public information meeting on Jan. 6, followed by a meeting with the Inland Wetlands Agency. On […]
Norfolk Then…
Harvesting ice was an important industry in Norfolk before the advent of mechanical refrigeration in the 1920s, and frozen ponds were kept free of snow not for skating but to keep the ice from getting soft before the harvest. Ebenezer Burr advertised “Tobey Pond Ice” delivered door-to-door on hot summer days, and the Norfolk Ice […]
Letters
Where All the Socks Go Thank you so much for participating in the Botelle School 5th grade’s Socktober sock drive. With your help, we were able to collect a total of 958 pairs of socks! After a class vote, we have decided to donate the socks to Hands of Grace Emergency Assistance in New Hartford […]
Selectman’s Corner
Snow in the Forecast, a New Bus and Funding for Energy Audits By Matt Riiska ‘Tis the season, and I am not referring to the holidays. Our public works crew has been out four times already this year, to make sure our roads are safe for travel. As in the past, we continue to work […]
Lois “Bisi” Starkey, 1923-2019
Lois “Bisi” Starkey (MacMurray) of Lexington, Mass., formerly of Brookline, Mass., and a lifelong summer resident of Norfolk, died on Nov. 5 from complications from a recent stroke. Bisi was born in 1923 to Lois Goodnow MacMurray and John V. A. MacMurray, who served as a diplomat in the U.S. foreign service between 1907 and 1944. Her father’s diplomatic career […]
Norfolk Then…
Stopping to chat with a friend in a passing vehicle would be unthinkable these days at the busy curve on Route 44 near the entrance to North Street. Back then, there was an apartment house on Memorial Green where the War Monument and evergreens now stand. It had been built in 1835 as a business […]
