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It Takes a Village By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The recent screening of The Vicious Kind, the film that was shot in Norfolk last year, was a wonderful show of support for the film and this publication. It was incredible seeing our town up on the big screen. From a beautiful shot of the western slope […]
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Yes They Can By Rosanna Trestman On January 20 Botelle school set a projector in the cafeteria and aired Barack Obama’s swearing in ceremony. (Coincidentally, it was lunchtime). Throughout the day, teachers interrupted lessons to broadcast the proceedings on TVs in the classrooms or the on big screen in the Hall of Flags. At Regional […]
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What If….. By Colleen Gundlach As 2008 draws to a close, it is interesting to ponder how the year might have been different. What if Sandy Evans, Judy Ludwig, Beth Podhajecki and the rest of the 250th committee had not had the talent, drive and enthusiasm that they poured into Norfolk’s Semiquincentennial celebration? The events […]
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An Idea Whose Time Has Already Come By Veronica Burns Last month’s View addressed the issue of hardships this winter and concluded that, despite the difficulties, people will work together and get through it. This View is also about people coming together, but on a larger, more governmental scale. Regionalism, which to some has the […]
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A Cold, Hungry Winter By Shelley Harms Connecticut, already above 6 percent unemployment, lost 2,300 jobs in September. This would have been a record, except the state lost even more jobs in January. The stock market is gyrating, the housing market is in crisis, taxpayer funds are committed to waging war and propping up banks. […]
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Time To Say Thanks, Paul By Lloyd Garrison In the past, the relationship between Yale’s summer programs and most residents of Norfolk could best be described as distant. Except for the few who boarded summer music students or were partial to chamber music, the closest most residents got to Yale’s presence was the sight of […]
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Keep it Simple By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo On Earth Day, Matthew Freund was a guest speaker at our monthly Energy Task Force meeting in town hall. He spoke about the methane digester he built at their farm in Canaan and plans for the biomass plant to be built next spring that will provide enough energy […]
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Unprecedented Opportunity in Norfolk By Colleen Gundlach It is likely that the 43 families who were living in Norfolk at the time of its incorporation back in 1758 would be very pleased to see our town 250 years later. At their first town meeting, on December 12, 1758, residents had much organizing to do. Today […]
View From the Green A Nod to Isabella Eldridge By Lloyd Garrison With the town fast approaching its 250th anniversary, the annual play performed last month in the library by women of the Isabella Eldridge Club (the “Isabellas,”) took on new meaning. As the stage manager in Jack O’Malley’s adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” […]
