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, […]
Meadowbrook Ladies Stitch For Others
By Ruth Melville A new project underway at the Meadowbrook Apartments hopes to put colorful handmade toy bears into the arms of children in need of comfort. The “My Bears” project was started by Pearl Lovgreen, who moved to this area from Middletown, Conn. six years ago. She came to be near her sister Joyce, […]
Building Inspector Watches Over Safety of Norfolk Homeowners
By Kurt Steele States legislate important issues affecting their citizens in different ways and have a wide variety of laws controlling how buildings are built or remodeled so they are safe. Some have statewide building codes based on a strong national model code. Others have weak codes or allow local counties to write their own. […]
Ukes Rule In Sheffield
By Bob Bumcrot For a delightful short summer break, take a spin up Route 7 to The Magic Fluke Company at 292 South Main Street in Sheffield, the largest maker of ukuleles in America. Walk through the museum-like displays showing the history of the instrument. Try strumming a few notes on the beautiful soprano, tenor, […]
Scavenger Hunt in Barbour Woods
Seven teams participated in the Norfolk Land Trust’s first-ever scavenger hunt on July 12 in Barbour Woods. Each team was given a map of the property and several items to find along the way to four checkpoints, where they were greeted by land trust volunteers and board members. Included in the tasks to complete was […]
Norfolk Artists and Friends Exhibit at Battell Art Barn
Event to benefit Music Shed Restoration Fund By Karen Linden Norfolk Artists & Friends will host an opening reception on August 8 for their Sixth Annual Art Show in the Gallery of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate. The public is invited to come from 5 until 7:30 p.m. to enjoy food and wine and view […]
Inside the Music Factory
Visiting With the Fellows at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival By Wiley Wood The campus of the Yale Summer School of Music in Norfolk is almost deserted on a sunny day in July, but fragments of music float in the air from all sides. A brass ensemble is rehearsing in a stone structure near Mountain […]
Solar Generation On The Rise
Area Residents Find Solar Affordable By Bob Bumcrot Driving along Route 44 through East Canaan, it’s hard not to notice the large set of solar panels across the road from Freund’s farm: eight big arrays totaling 576 panels on the site of the old Couch farmhouse and barn. The 130-kilowatt installation by PurePoint Energy of […]
Commentary: Finding You Center in the Northwest Corner
By David Beers Are you using your full working circle? What I mean is, are you able to reach out in all directions from Norfolk? For work, I consider my geographic reach to be roughly a 50-mile straight-line radius from my home. Almost any location within this radius is a 1.5-hour drive or less. Anything […]
Arethusa Farm Serves Up Fresh From Barn to Bistro
Wholesome and natural are its bywords By Colleen Gundlach In Greek mythology, Arethusa was a nymph whom the goddess Artemis transformed into a spring to save her virginity when she was being pursued by the river god Alpheus. It is an apt name, then, for Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, because the land it is built […]
