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 […]
Have You Seen These Animals?
NRIS seeks help with wildlife lists By Shelley Harms A binder at the Norfolk Library has the latest lists of Norfolk’s birds, butterflies, moths, mammals, amphibians and reptiles compiled by the Natural Resources Inventory Subcommittee of the Conservation Commission/Inland Wetlands Agency. All are welcome to look at the lists. In an ongoing effort to keep […]
