City Meadow Park: Mire to Marsh
Connecting the village center with improved access and amenities By David BeersPhoto by Christopher Little The town’s storm water runoff takes a circuitous route through the soils and vegetation of City Meadow Park, which allows the water to be filtered of sediment and contaminants. In a very similar meandering fashion, the process of creating the […]
Pittsfield Rye, Baking Quality Bread for 90 Years
Faces at the Farmers Market By Ruth MelvillePhoto by Bruce Frisch Every Saturday morning during the outdoor market season, the Pittsfield Rye and Specialty Breads Company pulls its van up in front of Town Hall and starts to unload a cornucopia of freshly baked bread. There is a bread for every bread lover’s taste: seeded, […]
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation
The Norfolk Food Pantry Is Running Low on Supplies According to Lynn Deasy, one of the volunteers who manages the Norfolk Food Pantry, more than 40 million Americans live in households that don’t have the resources to buy good, nutritious food. Even in Norfolk, 20 to 30 percent of the children at Botelle Elementary School […]
Revamp of Norfolk Website Offers Visuals of Town
Subscribers can get weekly email update of town events By Wiley Wood Last month, visitors to the town website saw a video showing a little boy, Calvin, climbing the stairs to the viewing platform on Haystack Mountain with his parents’ encouragement. But when Calvin gets to the top of the stairs, he finds himself staring […]
View from the Green
Life-Drawing Class Sparks Creativity By Marie-Christine Perry I had seen the sign on the lawn in front of the Joseph Eldridge House on the Yale campus last summer and been intrigued. I did not pursue it, being new to the town of Norfolk and not sure how to proceed. This year, when the sign appeared (I […]
Norfolk Dodgers Are Champs
To cap off their undefeated season, on June 24, at the ball field on Mountain Road, the Norfolk Dodgers beat the New Hartford Angels 14-4 to win the league championship in the minors division. The team’s record this year, 16-0, was a big improvement over last year’s 3-11, even though the team was the youngest […]
Norfstroms Celebrates One Month of Recycling Success
And a few lessons earned By Kelly Kandra Hughes “Welcome to Norfstroms!” Friendly volunteers greet residents as they approach the latest addition at the transfer station—an 8’ x 20’ shed that houses everything and anything from dinnerware and glasses to shovels and rakes. The shed, named Norfstroms by a town contest, is a collaborative, experimental […]
Art, Yearning and Bad Behavior in 1930s Mexico
Historical fiction from a Norfolk novelist By Wiley Wood Courtney Maum has a new book coming out: a novel, “Costalegre,” set in Mexico during the mid-1930s, told in the voice of a 15-year-old girl. In the foreground are the girl’s wealthy, spoiled American mother and the boatload of ego-driven artists she has brought with her—rescued—from […]
The Litchfield County Choral Union Celebrates 120 Years
Honoring the Stoeckel legacy By Colleen Gundlach The year was 1899 when Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel decided to honor her father, Robbins Battell, by starting a choral festival in Norfolk. The Stoeckels had been opening their home, Whitehouse, for musical gatherings for several years, so it was a natural offshoot for them to expand […]
WIN, WIN for Norfolk
Town festival celebrates its fourth year By Doug McDevittPhoto by Bruce Frisch Most great ideas come when we least expect them. In a dream or a daydream, during a conversation with a better half when we should be listening, or while running simple errands, it sometimes can’t be helped, they just pop in there. Well, […]
