Haystack Book Talks Visits WAMC Radio
Early one morning in September, Steve Melville (left, above) and Eliza Little (center) traveled to Albany with Dawn Whalen, executive director of the Norfolk Foundation, to take part in The Roundtable, WAMC radio’s weekday morning talk show. The three chatted with host Joe Donahue (right) about the first annual Haystack Book Talks festival, taking place on […]
View From The Green
Happy Anniversary to Us By Colleen Gundlach The year was 2003. The Yale Farm Golf Club controversy was in full swing and the Coalition for Sound Growth was in its infancy. It was the year Erick Olsen was called as pastor to the Norfolk Church of Christ, and the same year that the land […]
USDA Awards Grant to Norfolk Sewer District
Work expected to begin in the spring On May 16, 2018, members of the Norfolk Sewer District voted unanimously to apply for a grant to repair the infrastructure of the aging pipe system in town. In August, the district received word from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that the grant has been approved through […]
Town’s Annual Car Show Was a Huge Benefit and a Day of Fun
Norfolk’s emergency services groups drive away with $6,700 By Colleen Gundlach The weather cooperated beautifully for the sixth annual Norfolk Classic Car Show and the grounds of the Yale Music Shed were filled with exhibitors and more than 200 spectators. There were food vendors, raffle prizes and live music all afternoon provided by Andy […]
Temporary Repair Approved For Congregational Church Steeple
By Clinton J. Sosna Norfolk’s landmark and iconic Congregational Church steeple is still in jeopardy. Poor seals have allowed rainwater access to the bell deck which has over the years deteriorated two chestnut support beams and several of the columns that pillar the steeple. Elements essential to the support of the structure have severe wood […]
Someone’s Got to Do It
The conglomeration of signs of different sizes and styles that were once strewn about on the corner of Maple Avenue and Greenwoods Road has been eliminated. In an effort to tidy up the look of that area, the selectmen decided to move the Maple Avenue street sign to the opposite side of the street to […]
Surviving the Holidays After Losing a Loved One
The Hospice Program of Foothills Visiting Nurse will offer a six-week bereavement support group, “Surviving the Holidays,” starting October 23. The group will meet on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Foothills office at 32 Union Street in Winsted. The program, which is open to any adult who has suffered the death of […]
Local Boy Scouts Climb Highest New England Peaks
Over the past eighteen months, the Boy Scouts of Troop 33 have been reaching for the clouds in their quest to scale the highest peak in each of the five New England states. Under the leadership of Scoutmaster Dan Green, Troop Committee Chair Seamus Muzzulin and Committee Member Dave Johnson, four boys hiked to the […]
A New Turbine Is Planned for Colebrook Site
Projected to be bigger and more powerful than the first two By Wiley Wood The two wind turbines that now loom over Route 44 on the way to Winsted, representing Connecticut’s first commercial wind farm, may soon be joined by a third. BNE Energy, which built the first two in 2015, has applied to […]
Seven Students Win NVFD Scholarships
At the August 3 meeting of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department, Scholarship and Road Race Chairman Ron Zanobi awarded a total of $4,200 from the William F. Kelley Memorial Scholarship fund to seven college students from Norfolk. Each received a scholarship of $600 to assist with the upcoming college semester. Several of the recipients were […]
