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 […]
Cleaning, Burning, Construction, and Relaxing at Tobey
Selectman’s Corner by Matt Riiska We are four months into the Coronavirus and I want to thank everyone for their patience and diligence. It has not been easy, but it is good to see people wearing masks when in public and doing their best to practice social distancing. Tobey Pond has been open since June […]
Conservation Commission to Host Beaver Management Webinar
The Norfolk Conservation Commission will host a webinar on Aug. 4, 2020 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the subject of non-lethal management of beaver. The Beaver Institute is excited to announce an innovative program for the state of Connecticut, to help property owners and municipalities resolve human-beaver conflicts non lethally. Funding is available to […]
Community News
The Norfolk Library Summer Reading Program We invite children and families to participate in our “re-imagined” summer reading program. Prizes will be given to all children who register and complete seven of the 20 challenges. Call the library at 860-542-5075 or email efitzgibbons@biblio.org to register your child with your email and receive the challenges, and […]
Norfolk Then…
William H. Moseley was a “hotel man” from New Haven when he built this house on Laurel Way about 1890. He and his brother Seth were the proprietors of the popular New Haven House and two hotels in New York: Hotel Somerset at West 47th Street and Hotel Colonial at West 81st Street. Moseley named […]
Letters
An open letter to Ben Metcalf In late April the court ordered a site modification plan to be approved for your “warm mix asphalt plant” in North Canaan. So from one person who “believes strongly in protecting our environment” to another, I ask you, Mr. Metcalf, to act on what you believe. I have to […]
Tobey Pond, Taxes, Election Procedures and More
By Matt Riiska We have been dealing with the impacts of the coronavirus for almost two months and all I can say is thank you to everyone. It has been two months of Zoom meetings, face masks and hand washing, but together we will get through this. We will get back to normal, but for […]
Community News
Library Resumes Lending On June 1, the Norfolk Library will begin offering curbside pickup of books, audiobooks, and DVDs by appointment. Please call the library at 860-542-5075 for details and to make an appointment. Library materials should be returned in the book drop. Lions Club Scholarships This year the Norfolk Lions Club is once again […]
Norfolk Then…
This edition of Norfolk Then is the first in a series to feature Norfolk houses. Look for them as you walk or drive through town. Pictured here is the house built in 1898 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spofford as their summer home. The son of Ainsworth Spofford, librarian of Congress, Charles Spofford was an […]
