Landmark on Village Green Bought by Bank
Fate of building uncertain after years of neglect By Wiley Wood Crissey Place, the square, mansard-roofed house that has anchored the southeast corner of the village green for more than two centuries, went on the auction block on Saturday, Oct. 20, at noon. Derelict since its former owner, Peter Vosburgh, entered Geer Village Senior […]
Haystack Book Talks
Ten Authors, Two Days, Five Conversations By Christopher Sinclair As people streamed into Battell Chapel beneath the autumnal glow of the Armstrong stained glass windows, they might easily have imagined themselves in a New Haven lecture hall rather than on the village green in Norfolk. The chapel, which hosted four of the five sessions […]
Whiting Mills: An Old Sock Factory Stuffed With Surprises
By Sally Quale Inside a former mill building tucked behind the community college in Winsted there is a warren of artists’ spaces, craftsmen’s workshops and miscellaneous businesses. This is Whiting Mills. On any given day, a ceramicist might be glazing her pots for the kiln, a painter scrubbing his canvases, a weaver laying out […]
Super Spooktacular at Botelle School
Children of all ages gathered in the Hall of Flags at Botelle School on Friday, Oct. 26, for the annual Halloween celebration. Circulating through the crowd were scarecrows, witches, masked marauders, walking skeletons, a playful raccoon, a bevy of princesses, squads of superheroes and a solitary blue crayon. Standing guard at the entrance to the […]
At Budget Meeting, Parents Debate Botelle’s Future Direction
By Wiley Wood The tone was confrontational. “I really don’t care about that,” said Heather Adams, a parent. The superintendent was saying that each student at Botelle Elementary School gets a computer tablet. “The amount the school spends on technology,” said Adams, “is a concern for me.” The meeting was intended to give parents […]
Shrinking Our Water Footprint on ‘The Blue Marble’
How Norfolk measures up By Kathy Robb We connect with water, and our lives depend on it. The quality and availability of unpolluted drinking water has topped our environmental concerns in polls for a quarter of a century. In 2017, Americans expressed more concern about water pollution than they had since 2001. Low-income and […]
Lions Club Talent Show a Five-Star Hit
There were jokes, a fractured fairy tale, showtunes and original songs, a mimed performance, a memorable lip synch, a pre-teen dance troupe, Celtic pipes and much, much more at the annual Norfolk Lions Club talent show on the mainstage at Infinity Hall on Oct. 24. The acts included a rousing sing-along of “When the Saints […]
Instrumental Education Hits the Right Note at Northwestern Regional
Program attracts budding musicians By Charlotte McDevitt Music is very significant part of a child’s education, but music education is often one of the first academic areas cut during budget negotiations. Botelle School was recently forced to eliminate their stringed instrument program, but band class at the school is still ongoing. A very encouraging […]
Norfolk’s Club Activities: The Shooting Sports
By David Beers If you head past the Norfolk landfill toward Winsted on Route 44, you may have noticed a few red buildings, a gated gravel road and some archery targets in the woods across from the Rock Pile Driving Range. What you are seeing as you whiz by is just the tip of […]
The Paperback Revolution That Started in Norfolk
How Modern Age Books changed the way Americans read By Lucy Mookerjee Modern Age Books, Inc., founded by Norfolk’s Richard S. Childs in 1936, was the first large-scale publisher to produce paperback books in the United States. Modern Age released progressive paperbacks that were inexpensive and accessible to the general public. On display at the […]
