Norbrook Brewery, a Place of Refuge from Stresses of the World
Food trucks are now an added feature By Doug McDevitt In March we went into a lockdown. Boarded everything up. Donned our masks and only ventured out for necessities. Many thought well, it’ll only be for a couple weeks, it’ll pass soon enough. Over three months later, we’re still grappling with a new way of […]
International Art Exhibition Has Two Locations in Norfolk
Re-creation of a 1990 sculpture is made out of hundreds of fortune cookies By Ruth Melville The Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres died of complications from AIDS in 1996, when he was only 38 years old. But this spring, inspired in part by the coronavirus pandemic, the Andrea Rosen and David Zwirner galleries, working on behalf […]
Conservation Commission to Host Beaver Management Webinar
The Norfolk Conservation Commission will host a webinar on Aug. 4, 2020 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the subject of non-lethal management of beaver. The Beaver Institute is excited to announce an innovative program for the state of Connecticut, to help property owners and municipalities resolve human-beaver conflicts non lethally. Funding is available to […]
Protesters Gather on Norfolk Green
Joining protests across the country and around the world, a crowd of about 150 people gathered peacefully on the Norfolk village green on Sunday, June 8, to demonstrate against the systemic racism suffered by African Americans in the United States. Participants wore masks, and most observed social distancing guidelines. Many carried signs proclaiming “Black Lives […]
Norfolk Reopenings Follow State of Connecticut Guidelines
Individual businesses face a complex set of decisions By Jude MeadPhoto by Savage Frieze When Covid-19 struck, most places shut down or scaled back to stop the disease’s spread. The state allowed the reopening of some sectors of the economy on May 20, but the challenges continue, and those challenges are real for many of […]
You Got Mail in the Icebox
By Virginia Coleman-PriscoPhoto by Marinell Crippen Botelle’s very own Rex Crippen, age 9, has advanced to the nationals in this year’s Invention Convention, after qualifying at the local and state levels. The Invention Convention is an opportunity for students to practice applying science and engineering skills, especially critical thinking and problem-solving. Crippen invented a product […]
Moose Calves Sighted on Beckley Road
Norfolk resident Jonathan Gold sighted this pair of moose calves with their mother not far from his front door on Beckley Road in the Grantville section of Norfolk. The pictures, taken in the first week of June, put to rest once and for all the question of whether Norfolk’s woods are host to a resident, […]
Eating From the Devil’s Buffet
Spring foraging expedition takes near-fatal turn By Wiley Wood A local family’s foraging expedition in late April for ramps, a kind of wild onion, ended with all three members spending the night in the intensive care unit at Sharon Hospital. It was late in the afternoon, and Bridget Taylor, intrigued by an article on foraging […]
Connecting to the Internet in Norfolk – Part 1
Text and Photo by David Beers You call home. You join a zoom meeting for work. You text your son. You skype your mom. You google a recipe. You log on to the work computer. You play Call of Duty with your cousin in Missouri. You check Facebook. You post to Instagram. The possibilities to […]
Garden in a Jar
By Susannah Wood A cold spring and pandemic woes have had many of us hankering for fresh greens. Of course, we’ve been cutting down on trips to the store, and so it was a lucky day when I noticed an unopened package of organic sprouting seeds on our pantry shelves. Since then we have been […]
