Home Love Closes Shop
Home Love, an accessories and gift shop that opened at the end of April, closed its doors at the beginning of July. Owner Emily Irwin says that there just wasn’t enough foot traffic to make it worthwhile to staff the shop. “I didn’t find people out walking about,” she says. “In fact, that part of […]
Drop-In Center in Torrington Provides Services for the Homeless
By Ruth Melville For the past three and a half years, The Gathering Place in Torrington has offered homeless individuals in Litchfield County a safe place to find help and services. It’s not an overnight shelter, but a daytime drop-in center where people can take a shower, do their laundry, find clothing for job […]
Who Are the Library Associates and What Do They Do?
In Support of the Norfolk Library By Leila Javitch Many people in town probably don’t know who the Library Associates are, or what role they play at the Norfolk Library. Simply put, the Library Associates is a group of volunteers whose goal is to support the work of the library, primarily by sponsoring free […]
Following Budget Cuts, School Board Decides to Cut Botelle School’s Strings Program
Liz Allyn Is Resigning as Music Teacher By Ruth Melville In response to a combination of rising expenses and a decreasing budget, the Norfolk Board of Education has decided to eliminate the strings part of music education at Botelle School. Until the upcoming school year, all Botelle students had, at the music teacher’s discretion, […]
Wood Creek Bar and Grill Is a Role Model for Town-Wide Involvement
A Community Anchor By Colleen Gundlach The dream of many chefs is to own a restaurant of their own. It takes years of dedication, long hours and just plain hard work to achieve, yet is a goal that many never attain. For Heidi Dinsmore, co-owner of Wood Creek Bar and Grill, her hard work […]
City Meadow: Town Takes First Steps Toward Phase Two
By Wiley Wood The dragonflies like it. Pairs of brightly patterned skimmers chase each other around the pools in City Meadow Park, before disappearing into the long grasses. A lone visitor approaches on the walkway. “First time here,” he says in greeting. “They told me two people couldn’t walk abreast, but they must have […]
Norfolk Lions Club Awards Scholarship
Five high school students were awarded scholarships from the Norfolk Lions Club this year at their high school graduation. They are Morgan Daley, Adeline Hester, Alexander Machowski, Carly Millard and Avery Nelson, who will all be continuing on to further education this fall. Parents and graduates were invited to a dinner held at the ambulance […]
Trail Runners Take to the Woods
By David Beers If you have ever seen a blur of colorfully dressed people running through the Norfolk woods in the evening, it is likely the Hill County Trail Runners. This informal Norfolk-based club gets together at 5:30 every Tuesday evening to run the many beautiful trails in and near Norfolk. Each week features […]
Firefighting From Behind the Front Lines
By C. J. Sosna On Saturday, June 30, a day when the temperature climbed into the 90s, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) was called out to a house fire on Torringford Road in Winsted. By the time they arrived shortly after 7 p.m., the entire roof was already in flames, and the heat […]
CT DEEP to Purchase 420-Acre Vagliano Forest in Norfolk
Creates unsegmented corridor to Blackberry River By William Gridley The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is in the final stages of a transaction with the Vagliano family to acquire 420 acres of Norfolk forestland, tapping funds from the federal Highlands Conservation Act. The property, which includes the cold-water stream Roaring Brook, […]
