Norfolk’s Energy Task Force Recognized
Town leads the state in energy awareness By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Robert Wall, director of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), traveled to Town Hall on April 2 to present the Energy Task Force with one of CCEF’s 2008 Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Awards. CCEF honored 19 municipalities (including Norfolk), two companies and one university […]
Norfolk Now Wins Grant For Anniversary Edition
Norfolk Now has been awarded a $3,500 grant to help produce a special literary issue to mark the town’s 250 th anniversary celebration on August 1. The award was announced by Guy Rovezzi, president of the Torrington- based Community Foundation. “The funding was made possible by a collaborative grant to the foundation by the Connecticut […]
Jim Hotchkiss Chosen as Norfolk’s Volunteer of the Year
From zoning to photography and everything in between By Colleen Gundlach Jim Hotchkiss is a person who unpretentiously goes about helping out wherever he can, but self- effacingly says, “my wife deserves the award. She put up with all the meetings.” And meetings there have been, for many years. In recognition of more than 35 […]
From the court room to the riding stable
Norfolk Couple Practices Law and Conservation Together By Bob Bumcrot In 1980, Mary (Molly) Ackerly was assigned by Shipman & Goodwin, her Hartford law firm, to take a young job applicant named J. Michael Sconyers to lunch. They liked each other from the start, began dating in 1986 and got married on January 2, 1988, thereby […]
Ashpohtag Home Invasion
All three suspects face criminal charges By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Two young men broke into the home of Thomas Wilkeson, Harrison Conway and Chrystal Marshall at 314 Ashpohtag Road shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25. Raymond Santana, 21, of Bronx, New York and Jesse Diaz, 19, of Winsted walked into the house wearing […]
High Speed Internet Voids Likely to Remain
One for the “Cons” List By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A recurring complaint at town plan meetings over the past few months addresses the problem of voids in high speed internet access throughout Norfolk. Unless the towns in northwestern Connecticut or local internet providers invest millions of dollars in infrastructure, there is little to be done […]
Housatonic Railroad, Reborn in 1983, Continues To Operate
Rare Mileage Trip Offered Aboard the “Berkshire Flyer” By Bob Bumcrot The Central New England Railway that ran through Norfolk from 1899 to 1927, is no more. But the Housatonic Railroad to which it connected in Canaan is alive and well after a period of dormancy. One of the first railroads in the Northeast, the […]
Renewable Energy Plant Proposed for Canaan Valley
Plant will use animal waste to produce green electricity By John Funchion Construction of a proposed $14.3 million, three megawatt, manure to methane energy renewal plant in Canaan Valley in the near future will have minimal affect on the environment, milk production and Norfolk’s rural character. That is the view of Bob Jacquier of Laurelbrook […]
Getting To The Nuts And Bolts of Norfolk
Town plan focuses on infrastructure By Veronica Burns About 25 people, mostly members of town commissions and services, met on March 20 at Town Hall to continue the process of creating a town plan. Under the able tutelage of the plan consultant, Glenn Chalder of Planimetrics, topics ranged from sewers to sidewalks. The goal of […]
Out and About
On the Set of “The Vicious Kind” By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The powerful light of the full moon on the spring equinox was not bright enough for filming an outdoor scene of “The Vicious Kind,” the Lee Krieger film currently being shot in and around Norfolk. The lights on the set were blinding, transforming the […]
