Bringing There to Here (or Building Norfolk’s Center)
Guest View By Pete Anderson Where is Norfolk’s center? The Village Green? The library? Town Hall? Infinity Hall? The fire station? The EMT building? Station Place? Each of these is a center for some of the people, some of the time. But where is our commercial center? Consider how the cluster of Norfolk’s oldest […]
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It’s Time We Thanked our Viet Vets By Colleen Gundlach Last month I had the distinct honor of interviewing four of Norfolk’s Vietnam veterans for the June issue of Norfolk Now. It was an experience that brought back memories of a time when our country was even more divided than it is now. It was […]
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Our Disappearing Amphibians By Shelley Harms After a long, snowy winter, the calls of wood frogs and spring peepers from Norfolk’s thawing ponds are a welcome sign of spring. Especially this year, when the wood frogs made their latest appearance in memory in my pond, still half iced-over when a few hardy little souls started […]
February Journal
By Brett Hellerman February is my favorite month. Sunsets throw their long light into our eyes, later and later with each passing week. Following are excerpts from my February weather log. I hope you will find this a good complement to the “fact-based” summary put out by the official Norfolk weather station. February 1. A […]
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A Time of Change and Challenge By Samuel A. (Pete) Anderson In this Thanksgiving season, it’s timely to read Selectman Josh DeCerbo’s comments (in NN’s November issue) reminding us of the abundance of good things we Norfolkians have to be thankful for. Like Josh, and for all of the reasons he lists and many more […]
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Fix It, Don’t Toss It By Ruth Melville It’s a long winter in Norfolk, and the sun goes down early. The lengthy evenings indoors can be tedious, even for the avid reader or TV watcher. The library does a lot to offer indoor activities for someone who wants to get out of the house, with […]
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Thanks for the Memories By Bob Bumcrot It is most generous of issue editor Shelley Harms to give me her View from the Green for this, the first month of Francesca’s and my relocation from Norfolk to Back Bay Boston. Like Dorothy and Bob Pam, now in Amherst, we hope to return for short stays […]
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Do We Have The Cart Before The Horse? By Colleen Gundlach As so often happens in a small town, there are different viewpoints and outlooks, even among friends. Such is the case with the topic of this View. Even among the editors of Norfolk Now, there is friendly disparity about this issue. The opinions I […]
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A Void That Can’t Be Filled By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo As impossible as it was to imagine anything, even cancer, having its way with Lloyd Garrison, it did. His indomitable spirit fought that beast for longer than most could. A true fighter, Lloyd attended Norfolk Now story conferences and executive editor meetings right up until […]
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant focused on the results of a new Gallup Poll concerning percentages of Americans who would prefer to live in a state other than their own if they could. The poll found that nearly half of Connecticut residents […]
