Norfolk Fourth Graders Get Up Close With Nature
Fourth-grade students at Botelle School were invited to touch a boa constrictor as part of a live demonstration of the food pyramid presented on December 14 by Margery Winters of the Roaring Brook Nature Center. In a related experiment, Winters set a toad on the floor of the classroom and sprinkled worms in front of […]
Botelle School Hosts Japanese Drum Players
Principal and Students Take to the Stage to Beat Their Own Drums Taiko means “drum” in Japanese but in this country generally refers to a traditional style of Japanese drumming on a variety of percussion instruments. In a lively session in Botelle’s auditorium on December 9, the One World Taiko ensemble demonstrated the heart-pounding beats, dynamic movement and rhythmic grooves of the ancient […]
Downtown to Celebrate Norfolk Night on December 10
Shopping, caroling, trees and wreaths will ring in the season By Ruth Melville On the night of December 10, downtown Norfolk will usher in the holiday season with an evening of late-night shopping and special activities. Bella Erder, who owns the shop Aija at 6 Station Place, initiated and organized the idea. “I wanted […]
Plantin’ Seeds in North Canaan Celebrates Farming
By Ruth Melville Plantin’ Seeds Farm Kitchen, a new café and gathering place in North Canaan, is not your traditional restaurant. For one thing, it doesn’t charge money for its meals. Instead, it is a community resource, a mission and a project still taking shape. Plantin’ Seeds is the brainchild of Dale McDonald, a […]
It’s Only Natural—December 2015
Hunting and History on Canaan Mountain By Hans M. Carlson It’s the opening of deer season and a beautiful late fall day. The leaves are off the trees and the sun is casting long shadows out into the woods. Early this morning about a dozen hunters made their way into Great Mountain Forest, and […]
Onward and Upward With Botelle School
A Conversation With Superintendent Mary Beth Iacobelli With the effort to consolidate the Norfolk and Colebrook primary schools defeated, Norfolk Now’s Wiley Wood visited Superintendent Mary Beth Iacobelli for a discussion of the present and future of Botelle School. The following interview has been edited and condensed. NN: So Botelle School continues on. […]
A Family Effort for the Win
Racing Champion in Our Midst By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo One should never question a parent’s intuition about their child. Keith Goring, who has run Alfas Unlimited, Inc. on Greenwoods Road for 40 years, knew that his son was meant to be a race car driver long before the kid even had a license. Jonathan […]
Fire Department Practices on Wheeler Road Garage
Local family makes structure available to NVFD for live burn On a recent Saturday morning, most of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department’s fleet of vehicles converged on Wheeler Road, not to put out a fire but to set one. The property owners, David and Cindy Leffell, had decided to clear their land of the existing […]
Legendary Sound Man at Infinity Steps Down
Concert venue celebrates its seventh year By Michael Kelly Shortly before Infinity Hall opened in October 2008, newly-hired sound engineer Fred Schane climbed the stairs to the long dormant hall for the first time. Entranced by the look and feel of the vintage theater, he was more interested in how the mellowed wood and […]
