Posted by admin on March 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Roosevelt’s Tree Army By Veronica Burns The familiar expression “Another day, another dollar” has its origins in a public work relief program from the 1930s. Paul Barten, executive director of Great Mountain Forest, recently gave a presentation at the Norfolk Library on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the first component of Democratic president Franklin Delano […]
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Get your motors running The sound of vintage automobiles will be heard again in Station Place, this time to benefit the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance Fund. The second annual Classic Community Car Show will be held on July 13 from noon to 4 p.m. Organized by the Norfolk Economic Development Commission, the event will feature […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Close Encounters with Moose are Becoming the New Normal By Wiley Wood In mid-January, walking my dogs in Norfolk’s woods, I heard barking ahead and the sound of hooves. A moose appeared 40 yards away, heading straight for me at a gallop, my dogs at his heels. On my right was a hemlock swamp, […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Navigating The Sherwood Forest of Public Access By Colleen Gundlach In Norfolk, tuning in to Channel 6 on cable television brings an array of locally produced programs, from a Botelle Board of Education meeting to a Salisbury zoning meeting to the daily Morning Show simulcast from WHDD in Sharon. Formally titled Community Access Television […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Owner of Corner Store Still Upbeat About Norfolk By Ruth Melville Like many similar stores in small New England towns, the Norfolk Corner Store finds it hard to remain profitable throughout the year. In our area alone, the Colebrook Store, which had been in continuous operation from 1812 until it closed in 2007, recently […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Norfolk Farmer’s Market held its first-ever indoor winter market at the town hall. There were local jams and jellies, greenhouse-grown shiitake mushrooms, hand-made salamis, Hudson Valley cheeses, olive oils, very local maple syrup, artisan-style breads and eggs from happy chickens. Somehow, all of this fit into the attic space that most Norfolkians know as […]
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It was fiesta time at the Church of the Immaculate Conception when the Catholic Women’s Club hosted their midwinter chili cook-off on Saturday, Feb. 8. Twenty-two chilis were lined up for tasting in the church’s Klauer Hall. Among the more exotic offerings were vegetarian chilis, seafood chilis, and a moose meat chili, ranged alongside a […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Jugglers, a lion tamer, a sword swallower and an assortment of sideshow freaks occupied the stage at Battell Chapel on February 12 and paraded through the aisles while a top-hatted P. T. Barnum (Louise Davis) directed traffic with his riding crop. This visit from the Greatest Show on Earth was masterminded by the Isabella Eldridge […]
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Bounty of Snow and Cold Brings Wide Choice of Winter Activities By Janet Gokay Too bad about Sochi. While Olympic athletes and spectators alike were sunning themselves in 64-degree weather there on Valentine’s Day, the real winter sports were in full swing here in Norfolk. True, the spectacular snowfalls of the past few weeks […]
Posted by admin on February 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment
By Michael Kelly World-weary musicians onstage at Infinity Hall will sometimes express bewilderment as to where on God’s earth their tour buses have deposited them; then ask, parenthetically, just how do we say the name of this remote hamlet bordering the Berkshires? What these musicians don’t know is that Norfolkians are just as confounded by the proper […]