Whiting Mills Draws Visitors to Winsted
Renovated Factory Houses Art and Craft Studios By Colleen Gundlach Tucked away on a street behind the Winsted campus of Northwestern Connecticut Community College is an outwardly nondescript old factory building that is anything but nondescript on the inside. Driving up to the parking lot behind the building and walking inside will reward the visitor […]
The White Hart Inn: A Litchfield County Classic Comes Back to Life
By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo On a recent sun-kissed autumn day, every porch table at the White Hart Inn was filled to capacity by 12:15 p.m. Not bad considering the tap room doesn’t start serving lunch until noon, and it was a Tuesday. Safe to say, a lot of people are happy the iconic inn on […]
Library Associates Host a Barn Dance Fundraiser
Every year for the past 10 years the Norfolk Library Associates have held a fundraiser to offset the cost of the tent used for the annual book sale. Thanks to the generosity of Grant and Kristin Mudge, who offered the use of their barn, this year the associates decided to do something completely different—hold a […]
Norfolk Soccer Players Star on Regional 7 Team
Five teenagers from Norfolk are on the Regional 7 High School varsity soccer team, and two of them are captains. All of the kids participated in the town’s recreational soccer program starting in kindergarten. The four seniors were accepted into their first traveling soccer team at age 7. As of mid-October the team’s record was […]
Entrepreneurial Farmer Creates Organic Orchard in Norfolk
Pastoral View Preserved By Rosanna Trestman In the early 1800s, traffic along Norfolk’s Winchester Road bustled with activity. Farmers prodded cattle while ladies and gentlemen rode carriages to the once-thriving town of Winchester Center. On the way, they enjoyed expansive vistas of meadows and ponds. Over time, the views have become mostly residential, with the […]
USA Curling Gives National Award to Mary Fanette
By Wiley Wood In December 2011, Mary Fanette was in her second and final term as president of the Norfolk Curling Club. Already on the boards of several Norfolk nonprofits and serving as the town’s volunteer webmaster, Fanette may have been looking forward to stepping down that coming May. Then the clubhouse burned to the […]
The Norfolk Library Book Group
Varied books, good background info, open to all By Anne Frieze On a designated Friday approximately once a month, twenty to thirty people gather in a circle ready to discuss a book chosen by Mark Scarbrough, the facilitator of the Norfolk Library Book Group. In its fourth year, it is one of the core ongoing […]
Wooden Canoes Thrive in South Norfolk
Thomson Canoe Works Still Builds Canoes by Hand By Ruth Melville A summer job at a canoeing camp led Norfolk resident Schuyler Thomson to an unanticipated profession, and he has now been building and repairing handmade wooden canoes for over 30 years. Thomson, who grew up in Woodbury, Conn., graduated from the University of Connecticut […]
Matthew O’Connell is Botelle’s New Principal
A fourth-grade teacher and children’s book author as well as an administrator By Joshua DeCerbo This summer, Harwinton native Matthew O’Connell was selected to be the new principal of Norfolk’s Botelle School. Since that time, O’Connell has been working with the new Norfolk superintendent of schools, Dr. Mary Beth Iacobelli, to prepare for the start […]
Norfolk Now’s Prolific News Reporter Leaves Norfolk
Reflections on His Unlikely Journalistic Career By Kurt Steele Little would Dr. Robert Bumcrot, retired professor and chair of the mathematics department at Hofstra University, have believed it when he moved here in 2002, that he would become a reporter and editor for this volunteer-staffed newspaper and would write some 155 articles for it. Sadly, […]
