Students Honor Those Who Served
Botelle Elementary School hosted its annual Veterans Day Sing on Nov. 11 to honor town veterans. The event, now in its second decade, included a lunch and special program.
Careful as You Go
Repairing the brick and brownstone staircase at Norfolk’s Town Hall involves a fair bit of finesse and luck. Mason Joe Marolda, who has been working through the fall, has relied on a mix of recycled and found materials to ensure that the repairs mesh with the building’s distinctive exterior. For starters, Marolda saved as much […]
Norfolk’s Early Christmas Gift
On a blustery, rain-drenched October morning, intrepid teams from Peerless and the Whalen Nursery brought something special to the Norfolk Village Green: A 25-foot, field grown Norway spruce to serve as the town’s new holiday beacon. It replaces a King Boris fir grown from seed in Great Mountain Forest, which fell prey to a fungal […]
Norfolk Fire Department Awarded FEMA Grant
Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) Chief Brian Hutchins announced last month that the department had received a grant to purchase new self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), funded by the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). “This equipment,” says Hutchins, “provides the most up-to-date protection available, uses the most state-of-the-art technology […]
A Bad Month for Invasives
Norfolk contractor Phillip Lovett volunteered a day of his time and equipment to clear a steep bank at Botelle Elementary School infested with a tangle of bittersweet, porcelain berry, Japanese honeysuckle and multiflora rose—among other invasive plants. It was part of the Conservation Commission’s all-out effort to tame invasives across Norfolk. A team from Native […]
King of Pastry
Flora Lazar Co-Produces Documentary Film By Andra Moss It is the Olympics of French pastry—a marathon three-day competition for the honor of being recognized as one of the finest craftspeople in la République, a Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (MOF). Held once every four years in Lyon, the grueling pastry competition presents the ultimate challenge to 16 elite finalists. […]
Bunk Steps Down After 48 Years at Country Club
Longest tenure of any employee By Joseph Kelly It’s an old truism that the hardest part of any job is getting hired in the first place. With that in mind, you might think people would hang on to their jobs for long periods, but that’s rarely the case. Statistics show that after just four years, […]
Behind the Scenes on Route 44
The view from Norfolk’s Center Cemetery provides a good vantage point for the ongoing construction of the new retaining walls along Route 44. The so-called H piles, which can reach upwards of 50 feet, are in place and welders are working to install the studs that will be used to connect to the concrete face […]
Know Your Neighbor
Colin Burn What’s your relationship to the area?We moved to Norfolk about three years ago. Before finding our house, we’d actually never heard of the town! It ended up being one of those wonderful discoveries that come from late-night house hunting online. How did you come to Norfolk?I think of Norfolk as my third big […]
Norfolk Then…
One of the earliest photographs of Norfolk was taken on Nov. 2, 1877. Folks coming from Winsted would have travelled by horse-drawn carriage along this road to the center of town. There were no sidewalks to speak of, just dirt paths and occasional boardwalks, as seen on the right. The railroad had just been built […]
