Foothills VNA Joins Two Other Agencies Under Brand New Nmae
Everything Old Is New Again by Colleen Gundlach Back in 1922, the towns of Winsted, Norfolk, Barkhamsted and New Hartford and Colebrook all had their own individual visiting nurse agencies (VNA), but one by one they merged with the Winsted VNA, as it was then called. Norfolk joined in 1979. Later, in 1991, the name […]
Town Enters Agreement with Lodestar Energy
Developer to build solar filed on town farm by Wiley Wood The town-owned land around Norfolk’s transfer station has been lying unused since garbage stopped being dumped there in about 1990 and the landfill was covered over. Various plans for the resulting brownfield have been proposed in the decades since. On Sept. 1, First Selectman […]
Timber Harvest on Haystack Mountain to Remove Hazard Trees
by Dave Beers Stephany Dumond, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) State Parks Unit Manager,and Jeremy Clark, DEEP state forester, lead an informational walk to discuss the upcoming timber harvest that will remove hazard trees and ash trees impacted by the Emerald Ash Borer. At the Sept. 13 walk, the specifics of the harvest […]
Curling Club Planning for Reopening in Mid-January
Shorter season will run to Mid-April Text by Ruth MelvillePhoto courtesy of the Norfolk Curling Club On March 15, the pandemic forced the Norfolk Curling Club to close abruptly, cutting short its season. Since then, club members, under the direction of the executive board and president Bob Gilchrest, have been working hard to develop a […]
Teen Plans New Lifeguard Shed for Tobey Pond
By Wiley WoodPhoto of Ethan Perlman, top, by Savage Frieze Public beach adapts to Covid Ethan Perlman is in his second year as a lifeguard at the town’s public beach, so when he started looking for a project to earn his Eagle Scout ranking from Boy Scout Troop 19 in New Hartford, he quickly settled […]
Census Takers Fan Out Across Norfolk
U.S. Census Bureau field agents, including four from Norfolk, are knocking on doors in this town and the surrounding communities to gather census data. They are part of an army of 165,000 enumerators nationwide, who are racing to complete data collection before the administration’s Sept. 30 deadline. Self-response rates in Litchfield County are at about […]
Norfolk Land Trust Holds Virtual Race
Out of growing concerns over the Covid-19 virus, the Norfolk Land Trust has decided to hold a virtual race rather than the in-person trail race this year. During the Haystack Challenge, a virtual 5K and 10K-race, participants can register for the race and then run or walk a 5- or 10-K route of their choosing. […]
The End of the Beginning: Covid-19 Clinical Trials
By Richard Kessin It takes gall to channel Churchill’s World War II phrase, especially when we could be looking forward to the beginning of the end. But let’s keep our attention on the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. All of the vaccines are designed to present a SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein to the human immune system and […]
Born on the Fourth of July at Lone Oak
This baby was eager for independence By Colleen GundlachPhoto by Savage Frieze When Heidi and Andy Crawford first met, it was at Lone Oak Campsites in East Canaan, where she worked as a waitress and he played in a band that performed there. They were both 21 years old, and it wasn’t very long before […]
Masks, Mistakes and Progress on Covid-19
By Richard Kessin We are currently arguing about masks and disease prevention. Virologists and others (including me) thought that because the Covid-19 virus is so small, it would pass through a normal surgical mask. But masks are useful because viruses come packaged in large respiratory droplets that are blocked by the mask, and they also […]
