School and Library Collaborate
Appreciating The Arts Through Thinking, Analyzing and Discussing By Colleen Gundlach Exposure to the arts has always been a big part of life in Norfolk. Now, as a result of a unique collaboration between Botelle School and the Norfolk Library, the town’s children will have access to fun and learning at the same time. Ann DeCerbo, coordinator […]
East Coast Lightning Equipment
Business Up By 30 Percent By Bob Bumcrot Lightning cannot be avoided; it needs to be controlled. A typical strike, coming in at 90,000 miles per second, carries around 30 million volts of electricity. It must be acquired at many points along the roof line and conducted to the ground. Thus the lightning rod Modern houses, with […]
Serving Time in Connecticut
For Majewski and Carey, No Easy Road to Freedom By Susanna Wood Ten years in jail is a long time. With two leap years that’s 3,652 days, 87,648 hours, 5,258,880 minutes. How does that time pass for inmates like Kyle Majewski and Matthew Carey, the two young men recently sentenced for a crime spree that […]
Preparing the Next Generation of Curlers
Botelle students learn Norfolk’s trademark game By David Beers Students in grades three through six at Botelle School have been curling at each of their gym classes for all of February and early March. After some initial instruction in curling rules, vocabulary, scoring and history of the sport, red and blue four-person teams were formed […]
More Than a Librarian
Chris Keyes Embraces Life, One Chapter At a Time By Rosanna Trestman Over the past four years, patrons of the Norfolk Library have come to know Chris Keyes, at least in his visible role as head of circulation. But behind the fellow checking out books is a man of many hats, including a chef’s toque, […]
Salisbury VNA To Offer Community Service Help Line
Answering the tough questions By Colleen Gundlach According to the Center for Disease Control, more than 1 million people have knee or hip replacements each year, and untold numbers of Americans will contract influenza. In addition, there are almost 80 million members of the baby boomer generation contributing to the aging of this country’s population. […]
Trying For Another Award Winning Robot
The “Gearheads” from Regional #7 Gear Up For Competition By Joshua DeCerbo Emboldened by their success in last year’s Connecticut Regional Robotics Competition, a team of over 30 students from Northwest Regional School #7 have designed and built a totally new frisbee-throwing robot for this year’s event that opens at the Hartford Convention Center on March […]
How Times Have Changed
Becoming an EMT ain’t what it used to be By Joel Howard When Bill Brodnitzki started his first stint as an ambulance volunteer, he once answered a call when his neighbor yelled out, “Hey, Bill. You free to make a run?” Otherwise, like other volunteers, he answered his calls on a rotary dial phone. That […]
Kristin Mudge Brings Her Passion for Dance to Norfolk
Moving to Music By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo In two short years, professionally trained dancer Kristin Mudge has taken Norfolk by storm. Graciously donating her time and energy to a myriad of groups and endeavors in Norfolk and the surrounding area, Mudge’s most recent undertaking was choreographing the Northwestern Regional Seven High School musical, “Chicago.” […]
Indie Feature Film To be Shot in Norfolk
By Lloyd Garrison A low budget film written and directed by Lee Toland Krieger, a promising filmmaker with one feature length movie behind him, will be shot in a variety of locations in Norfolk starting March 10 and extending into April. The film, budgeted at a modest $1 million, is entitled “The Vicious […]
