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 […]
Community News—Sept. 2019
Cathy Doocy Landscapes at the Library A lifelong resident of the Connecticut River valley, Cathy Doocy has been exhibiting contemporary landscapes for over 20 years. Inspired by the fields and hills of New England, Doocy has brought together works for this exhibit, “Stops Along the Way,” that explore the picture-making process.The opening reception, hosted by the […]
Norfolk Then—September 2019
The Temperance Band has gathered outside Marie Kendall’s barn about 1890. Kendall was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the children wear the WCTU’s white ribbon badge. Although they look a little young to be enlisted for the cause of abstinence from alcohol, it was not the first time Norfolk children took […]
Selectman’s Corner
The Cemetery Committee Is Alive and Well By Matt Riiska This is a late invitation, but on August 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the Botelle School Hall of Flags Representative Maria Horn will be fielding questions in regard to school funding. The conversation will focus on State Education Cost Sharing (ECS), Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR) […]
Community News—Aug. 2019
Christopher Little to exhibit work at the Norfolk Library Christopher Little’s August show at the Norfolk Library, named High and The Mighty, showcases a collection of photographs made in the last year. “High” presents color images of familiar village scenes. The photographs are aerials and are rendered in the miniature style—think model railroad. “The Mighty,” in […]
