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 […]
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, […]
