View from the Green
A Season for Making Choices By Colleen Gundlach As we come into election season, the signs have popped up on lawns from one end of town to the other. Despite all of the turmoil in national politics, Norfolk is having a relatively calm and well-mannered municipal election, which is good, but is it this quiet […]
Selectman’s Corner
Serving the Community in Many Ways By Matt Riiska With Election Day coming up we all hear about those that serve on elected boards and commissions and those who are appointed to serve on the many committees we have, but we sometimes forget about all who volunteer countless hours to keep Norfolk safe, beautiful, culturally […]
Remembering Larkin Hasbrouck
Larkin Mead Hasbrouck died at age 86 on Oct. 22, 2019. He was the first-born child of Richard and Katherine Hasbrouck of Bronxville, N.Y. He had two younger sisters, Tryntje and Jane. Larkin’s youth was spent between Philadelphia, Penn., where he graduated from Friends Central High School and Norfolk, Conn., where his family had their summer home. In 1955, […]
Norfolk Then…
Still standing today at the south end of the Green (but without the front porch), Crissey Place was one of several early 20th century hostelries in Norfolk. It was owned and operated by Miss Cora Brown and named after the Crissey family, who had lived there for almost 100 years. Opening in the 1920s, it […]
Getting Ready for the Season Ahead
By Matt Riiska As fall starts, the Public Works Department has taken on the major project of getting its fleet of trucks back into shape. The treatments applied to our roads before and after snowstorms, Morton rock salt with Ice B’Gone, are great to keep the roads clear, but they require careful cleaning and maintenance […]
Real Estate Transactions
July and Augus 2019 July 2019 On July 18, Byron Tucker and Elizabeth R. Hilpman to Celeste and Harry E. Pinkerton, 24 Inner Rd., for $950,000. On July 18, Michael Souveroff and Karol K. Ward to Catharine H. Moore, 61 Shepard Rd., for $220,000. On July 22, Reverse Mortgage Solutions to Marie & Corbett Liverpool, […]
Community News—Oct. 2019
Jazz Concert at the Norfolk LibraryThe Dinuk Wijeratne Trio (Dinuk Wijeratne on piano, Nick Halley on drums and Jon Suters on bass) will perform an exciting concert of jazz/world music at the library on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Dinuk Wijeratne is an award-winning Sri Lankan-born Canadian pianist, composer and conductor. Drummer/percussionist and composer Nick Halley […]
Norfolk Then . . .
Imagine photographer Marie Kendall in a long skirt climbing Canaan Mountain with all her gear—view camera, lenses, tripod, dark cloth, glass plate negatives—and you’ll have some idea of the difficulties she faced to get this shot of West Norfolk about 1890. Ashpohtag Road stretches into the distance through hills that have been stripped bare, the […]
Letters to the Editor
Connecticut Coverts Cooperators In the United States, 36 percent of forestland is privately owned by families or individuals. In southern New England this percentage rises to 74 percent—the majority of which is in parcels under 50 acres. Most woodland owners own their land because they value it as forest and aim to be good stewards. […]
Selectman’s Corner—Sept. 2019
State “Debt Diet” Affects Town Projects By Matt Riiska All of us sometimes mull over if we should go on a diet, myself included. Numerous projects in town are being considered, but all are on hold until state funding is made available. The State of Connecticut is currently on a diet of its own, a […]
