January 2016 Real Estate Transactions
January 11, Phyllis R. & Paul D. Wagner to Quentin Chiappetta & Benjamin Sosland, 188 Old Goshen Rd., $270,000. January 20, FNMA to Jennifer Hoyer, 17 River Place, $18,750. January 25, Mary S. Bower to Kathleen Connolly, 23 Laurel Way, $196,500. January 26, Ellen O. Hubbard to Elizabeth Reilly & David Morgan Sollors, 82 Laurel […]
Town Waits on State DEEP for City Meadow Approval
Window to spend grant money to close in September The City Meadow Committee met on February 8 to chart its course of action in the year ahead. Plans for a storm-water park in the phragmites-filled wetland below Station Place stalled in May 2015 when the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection rejected the […]
Fire Department Seeks Funding for New Pumper Truck
At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen on January 5, Matthew Ludwig, chief of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department, petitioned the Board of Selectmen to support the purchase of a new pumper truck in the upcoming budget. The new truck would replace a 1985 GMC Pierce pumper truck known as Engine 90. A compact […]
Town Committee Meets to Plan New Trail
The Rails to Trails Committee, recently formed as a subcommittee of the town’s Economic Development Commission, is focusing its initial efforts on a two-mile section of the former rail bed lying north of Haystack Mountain, between Route 272 and the North Canaan line. This portion of the abandoned rail bed, which lies on land belonging […]
Norfolk Festival Director Will Step Down After 2016 Season
Melvin Chen named new director By Wiley Wood Paul Hawkshaw, the Yale School of Music professor who has served as director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Yale Summer School of Music for more than a decade, has confirmed that he will step down after the festival’s 2016 season. Familiar to concertgoers […]
Republicans and Democrats Caucus to Select Town Committees
By Ruth Melville In an election year, most Americans are familiar with state and presidential caucuses, which are heavily publicized, much anticipated and often divisive national events. But on January 9 a similar democratic process—if on a much smaller scale—took place in Norfolk’s Town Hall. On that night the town’s Republicans and Democrats met […]
A New Foundation Aims at Downtown Hub
By Janet G. Mead “Our dream is to make Norfolk the vibrant place we all would like it to be,” said Samuel (Pete) Anderson, president of the newly established Norfolk Foundation. “We want to make Norfolk a center for art and natural recreation.” To work toward this goal, Anderson and three other founding board […]
Historical Society Weekend Celebrates Today’s Norfolk Collectors
In conjunction with their exhibition “A Farmer, a Sportsman and a Diplomat: The Romance of Collecting in Norfolk,” the Norfolk Historical Society is sponsoring a weekend in February devoted to today’s collections. On Friday, February12, a cocktail party at the Historical Museum will feature a group of Norfolk collectors who will share their collecting […]
Aija Ends Its Run on Station Place
Pop-up planned for spring By Ruth Melville For four and a half years, Bella Erder’s shop Aija, selling jewelry, accessories, tableware and other gifts, has been a lively and colorful part of Station Place. But last December Erder reluctantly decided it was time to close her doors. Erder and her family first bought a […]
Obituary—Marion Ann Donovan
Marion Ann Donovan, a career foreign service officer and world traveler, died peacefully at her home on Tuesday, December 22, 2015. She was 95 years old. Marion Donovan was born on October 13, 1920, and grew up in Brooklyn, where she played the violin and piano and read voraciously. Her love of travel began early, […]
