Serving the Community
Volunteers Are the Force Behind the Norfolk Food Pantry By Colleen Gundlach The Norfolk Food Pantry today serves about 60 families per week, providing food to about 800 people in total. That’s a big jump from the early years when the pantry fed an average of eight to 10 families. “The statistics are striking. The […]
Linda Perkins Takes a Look Back
Former Town Clerk Slows Down But Stays Active By Avice Meehan Until a few months ago, the words “slow down” and Linda Perkins did not belong together. The indomitable town clerk and lover of Norfolk history was an unstoppable booster of the town, dispenser of permits and stickers, keeper of vital statistics and recorder of […]
Sweets on the Green
A Decade of Decadent Desserts By Andra Moss How is your naughty versus nice rating? Those needing to influence Santa with an especially impressive treat should grab their stockings and head to the Norfolk Historical Society (NHS) for the 10th Annual Cake Auction on Saturday, Dec. 7. Now a Norfolk holiday tradition, the event was […]
Artist Tom Burr Brings His Torrington Project to an End
Performances celebrate studio closing By Stephen Melville Norfolk resident and artist Tom Burr organized a day of performances and exhibition at his studio in Torrington on Oct. 26, marking an end to what he has called “The Torrington Project.” For the past three and a half years, Burr has rented a vast—15,000 square foot—former industrial […]
IceBox Café at Your Services
New Dining Option Opens in Station Place By Avice Meehan Despite an 18-month delay, Peter and Marinell Crippen held firm to their vision of opening the Icebox Café in Norfolk’s Station Place as a destination for good food and coffee. And finally, that day arrived on Monday, Dec. 2—fingers crossed. For the first month, the […]
New Meanings for a Monument
Light Shines on the Memorial Green By Joe Kelly On Monday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day, a crowd of about 100 gathered for the rededication of Norfolk’s World War 1 memorial, artfully restored under the auspices of the Norfolk Community Association. It was sunny. Temperatures in the low ‘60’s. Another day of no rain. Everyone talked […]
Mountain Spirits to get a makeover
New owner plans to renovate and expand By Joe Kelly Making a liquor run in Norfolk is about to get a bit easier. Mountain Spirits, which has served as Norfolk’s lone package store since the 1970s, now has a new owner who plans to significantly update and expand the operation. Pranav Patel purchased the store […]
A norfolk night that won’t be forgotten
great training, good luck save a life By Brigitte Ruthman and Jon Riedeman “You shouldn’t be alive.” That’s what Norfolk resident Keith Steiger was told by his brother Kurt the day after a remarkable save by the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance crew, the Norfolk Fire Department and a Hartford HealthCare paramedic. His brother, a paramedic […]
Documenting History
Uncovering the truth in war By Elizabeth Bailey The Norfolk Library is screening two documentary films featuring the work of journalists committed to bringing the truth to the American people in commemoration of Veterans Day. “Dateline Saigon” features the investigations of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett and the photojournalist […]
Restored war memorial to be celebrated on veterans day
plaque now honors all who served By Patricia Platt A World War I monument, designed by Alfredo Taylor and erected on Norfolk’s Memorial Green in 1921, bears the inscription, “for those who gave and those who offered their lives for liberty, the people of Norfolk have built this monument and crowned it with the Liberty […]
