Gourmet Meets Homestyle in Goshen
Not Just Another Roadhouse By Rosanna Trestman Lucky for us, Norfolk now has a choice of four local dining establishments. But it may come as a surprise that a fifth restaurant has been quietly tucked behind the scene all along. Located in Goshen, just a quarter of a mile west of the rotary, A.J.’s Steak […]
Norfolk’s Silent Sentinels
Everything You Need to Know About Utility Poles By John G. Funchion There are 2,153 utility poles in Norfolk. These poles, standing as silent sentinels for years on our roadsides, provide us with all the amenities of modern living: electricity, cable television and internet access. Utility poles were first used above ground in the 19th century […]
ZONE 4
Mounting a Counter Offensive on Invasive Species By Susannah Wood Like most of us living in the Icebox of Connecticut, I greet the first signs of spring with a surge of relief and delight at the first sight of the branch tips of the red maples beginning to color, that first phoebe singing outside our […]
Pitching In
Stalwart parents and children brave a brisk April morning to contribute their efforts to the Baseball Field Clean-Up Day. Employing assorted gardening tools, rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows, they made the Mountain Road Little League field ready for baseball.
A Globe-trotting Entrepreneur Loves Norfolk But Laments Lack of Broadband
Leaving Manhattan’s Noise Behind By Lloyd Garrison Running an internet-based business from Norfolk isn’t that unusual these days. In fact, Bryan Stanton has been running a worldwide marketing and public relations business from Norfolk since 1997. “From the agency’s founding 20 years prior, clients were always more foreign than domestic,” he explained, “as our expertise […]
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, […]
