Norfolk Lost & Found
This 18th century house is still standing in Norfolk, although in a very different guise. Built in 1764, it was the home of a hatmaker and has since been enlarged. Can you identify this house? (Hint: The mountain behind it now has a tower.) Photo Copyright Norfolk Historical Society
Northwestern Looks To The Stars
By Colleen Gundlach Good things are happening on the hill in Winsted. Too often we read news accounts about schools that are failing to meet our children’s needs and about teachers who don’t care. We need to hear about the exceptional outcomes and imaginative, creative methods being employed to provide top-notch education to students, especially […]
Letters
The View is Just Fine Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo surely echoed the views of most if not all Norfolkians in her View From the Green article last month regarding the pride we take in the beauty of our town. Norfolk’s historical architecture is something we all cherish. We should be cautious however in considering the creation […]
COMMUNITY NEWS
A Sweet Fundraiser As a fundraiser, Botelle School’s graduating 6th grade Class of 2010 will be selling homemade Christmas cookies. Purchase a box of 24 cookies, beautifully boxed for that perfect gift. Each sells for $15. Order your cookies by contacting Gwen Green at 860-542-5336 or place your order at the Norfolk Corner. The deadline […]
Letters
Sewer Dumpings We feel the article “Sewage Dumping in Local Woods”, published in the November “Norfolk Now” and the Waterbury Republican, has had a negative impact on the W. F. Torrant Co., Inc. and has embarassed the Torrant family members residing in Norfolk. We are asking that your newspaper issue a clarification, and that you […]
Letters
To the Editor of Norfolk Now: I am a member of the Emergency Services Building Committee, writing with my personal response to the November editorial, “Just How Good is That View?” I was surprised by the editor’s question as to why the new Emergency Services Building is sited on the corner of Route 44 and […]
Letters
More Emergency Services I was surprised to note that the Norfolk Now has adopted a new policy for printing articles without a basis of fact. In the column “Just how good is that view,” the statement that a building was hastily approved by the building committee and the Planning and Zoning Commission was totally off […]
View From the Green
Paving Paradise By Veronica Burns As 2009 draws to a close, Norfolk can acknowledge the work done by various commissions and groups throughout the year. Two documents now exist which are achievements in providing guidelines for the future of our town. The Natural Resource Inventory (NRI) and the Town Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) […]
Selectman’s Corner
Holiday Reminders If you are looking for a different kind of gift this holidiay season, the 2010 Connecticut Fish and Game Licenses will be on sale December 1 in the Clerk’s office at Town Hall. Fuel assistance from the state is available this year. Please contact 542-5829 to see if you qualify. Town Hall will […]
Norfolk Then…
Chickens on roller skates? Marie Kendall was a very creative photographer, and she must have had some pretty cooperative chickens, merry or not as they “roll along” in this Christmas greeting. Many of Kendall’s surprising and delightful images of Norfolk can be found in Picturing Norfolk: 1758-1958, available for holiday purchase at the Norfolk Library […]
