Town Truck Totaled in Icy Skid
On Monday, Feb. 5, a town snowplow crashed on Bald Mountain Road. The driver, Phil Lovett, was taken to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital and released. “He banged up his knees pretty bad on the dashboard and was bruised across the chest from his seatbelt,” said First Selectman Matt Riiska, who visited the scene of the accident […]
Isabellas Perform Women’s Poetry of World War I
For this year’s annual production, “Scars Upon My Heart,” the Isabella Players presented a reading of women’s poetry from World War I. The somber and moving performance began with the players, all dressed in black, filing into the chapel singing the patriotic hymn “Jerusalem.” Ann Havemeyer introduced the readings by explaining the importance of poetry […]
In the Wake of a Natural Disaster
Lending a Hand After the Cameras Are Gone By Tom Hodgkin Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Maria. Wildfires in California. A string of natural disasters erupted onto the national stage in 2017. Hourly television, radio, newspaper and social media coverage preoccupied the news media—until it didn’t. Months later, the news cycle had moved on: […]
New Section of Rail Trail to Be Opened for Winter WIN
By Wiley Wood One of the groups hosting an event when the town celebrates Winter Weekend in Norfolk on Feb. 24 and 25 is the Norfolk Rails to Trails Committee, which has created a new trail on the north side of Haystack State Park and is inviting the public to come try it out. […]
Norfolk Knitting Group Delivers
Lucy Baldwin, supervisor of volunteers at the Gathering Place in downtown Torrington, accepts a delivery of hand-knitted items from the Norfolk Knitters. The Gathering Place is a drop-in day center for homeless individuals, families and veterans. Since December, the knitters have taken several bags of hats, scarves and mittens to the center. Thanks to the […]
School Costs Rise, but Board of Finance Unmoved
Plea for small increase meets with little sympathy By Wiley Wood In an early skirmish of the town budget wars, the Board of Finance delivered strong messages to the Regional No. 7 Board of Education and to the Norfolk Board of Education that this was not a year for budget increases. School Superintendant Mary […]
Expansion of Transportation Service
The first selectman’s office has announced an expansion of the Rural Independent Transportation Service, a program that provides free transportation to the elderly and disabled for non-emergency medical trips. Anyone over 60, or of any age and disabled, who needs a ride from Norfolk to a medical facility for scheduled treatment (for example, dialysis, radiation, […]
Rep. Brian Ohler Looks Back on His First Year
After a bad session for the environment, Ohler gets thumbs up from League of Conservation Voters By Susannah Wood State Representative Brian Ohler (R, 64th Dist.) was pleased, when we spoke in November, to have been recently named an Environmental Champion by the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters. The League credits him with being […]
City Meadow Project Looks Forward to Next Phase
The new park in the center of town, City Meadow, is shut down—for its annual closure from November to May. The looping boardwalks lie under a treacherous layer of ice and snow. A sign warns visitors away. An official ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Dec. 9 to celebrate the on-time completion of […]
Ice on Town Rink an On and Off Proposition
There is black ice on Wood Creek Pond, as these words are being written. There is black ice on Tobey Pond and Doolittle and Seldom Seen. But there is no skatable ice on the town rink by the ball field. This is due to a combination of factors, according to Schuyler Thomson, who agreed to […]
