Norfolk Ambulance Corps Hurting for Volunteers
Medical Responder Course Offered This Fall By Wiley Wood On a recent Saturday, Christopher Little manned a table at the Farmers Market draped with the banner of the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance. People waved, stopped to chat or offered words of encouragement as they hurried past. Few seriously considered enrolling in the Emergency Medical Responder […]
Eye on Town Government
Selectmen Make Provisions for Next Winter and Repair Damages from the Last By Robert Carter The Norfolk Board of Selectmen held its first monthly meeting of the new fiscal year on July 1. The Farmers Market has requested to use the upstairs at town hall twice a month from November through April. After considering a […]
A New Look For Meadowbrook
Norfolk senior housing receives grant Meadowbrook will be undergoing some physical changes this summer, thanks to a grant from the Mary R. Camp Fund. The United Church of Christ, of which the Norfolk Church of Christ is a member, provides grants under the terms of the will of Mary R. Camp for the “maintenance and […]
Emerald Ash Borer Reaches Litchfield County
Insect Likely to be Present in Norfolk Already Loss of All Local Ash Trees Expected By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station issued a press release last month that the emerald ash borer (EAB) beetle population is rapidly expanding throughout the state. The original Connecticut infestation of the invasive Chinese beetle began in […]
Yale Student Conducts Field Experiments in Norfolk
Does the presence of roads affect the plants in a field? By Wiley Wood On a hot morning in late June, Jeffrey Smith walks around in circles in a field in Norfolk, swatting at the grasses with a canvas net. He is sampling the insect population. At the end of a few minutes, the net […]
HamletHub Comes to Norfolk and Canaan
A new resource for sharing local stories By Ruth Melville HamletHub is a network of “hyperlocal” websites whose driving mission is to help local people share local stories with their communities. The project is the brainchild of Kerry Anne Ducey. About two and a half years ago, Ducey was working as a writer for a […]
June 2014 Property Transfers
On June 9, 2014: 57 Blackberry St., from Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Julie Prue and Earl Thitchener, $80,000. On June 9, 2014: 106 Laurel Way, from Thomas K. Carley and Alissa Churchill to John Wills Martin and Barbara Schock, $560,000.
Republican Primary Scheduled for August 12
The Republican primary will be held on August 12 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Anyone wishing to vote in this primary must be a registered Republican by August 7. There will be no same-day voter registration allowed. Absentee ballots are available now from the town clerk’s office and must be returned by 8 p.m. […]
New Principal named for Botelle
Matthew O’Connell has been named the new principal of Botelle School, replacing Peter Michelsen, who resigned to take a position in the Farmington school system. O’Connell served as an administrator in the Winsted schools for the past seven years, and prior to that he taught for 14 years in Plainville and Simsbury. A public meet-and-greet […]
Norfolk Library Loses Executive Director
Interim Director Named An interim director of the Norfolk Library, Ann Havemeyer, above, has been named by the library’s board of directors to replace Luisa Sabin-Kildiss, who served as executive director from January 2013 until last month. While the library’s president, Robert Dance, would not comment on the reasons for Sabin-Kildiss’s departure, he praised her […]
