Norfolk Early Learning Center Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary
Learn, Love, Grow By Ruth Melville On May 5, Kailyn Nadeau and Paige Corey celebrated their fifth year as directors of the Norfolk Early Education Center (NELC), their state-licensed child-care facility for children from as young as six weeks up to 12 years old. For over 10 years, Nadeau and Corey had worked at […]
The Hub, Designed as a Collaborative Center, Holds First Event
Transformed space is open to all By Chris Sinclair The many stone walls running through the New England landscape may well reflect the entrenched belief that, as Robert Frost put it, “Good fences make good neighbors.” But this New England town has opted for a somewhat different approach in the form of the Norfolk […]
Repairs to Water Main Stretch to Three Days
Repairs to a leaking water main next to Route 44 in downtown Norfolk began on Tuesday, May 15, when a crew from John J. Brennan Construction in Shelton, Conn. tore up the side of the road just east of Grant Street. Discovering that the pipe was under the sidewalk, they came back the next day […]
Best in Show: Norfolk
By Janet G. Mead “So you think your dog’s got talent?” was the hook Ellie Crone, 15, and Kendra Link, 14, came up with to lure donors to their benefit for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, held Saturday, May 26, at Botelle School—and it worked! More than 60 people and 20 dogs were in […]
Yale Summer School of Art: A Celebration and a Farewell
By Ruth Melville This summer marks the 70th anniversary of the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, and the 20th year under the directorship of Sam Messer, a professor and former associate dean at the Yale University School of Art. Housed in the Art Barn on the Battell Stoeckel Estate, the summer program is […]
Finding True Southern Barbecue and a Touch of History in Burrville
Out and About By Colleen Gundlach There are few restaurants in the area that can say they prepare their entire menu fresh daily, and even fewer that start cooking the day’s food at 5:45 a.m. For Lou and Gina Gabriel, however, this is their reality, because developing the deep, rich flavors of barbecue takes […]
Peeping at Spring Leaf-Out
Local observation station is longtime contributor to national network By Wiley Wood The three spindly lilac bushes growing near the cooperative weather station on Windrow Road don’t look like much, but they are an unusually well-documented trio of plants. Not the common lilac, which is more lushly flowered, they are a clone, Syringa chinensis […]
Demolition on Town Hall Lot
A small building next to Town Hall at 25 Maple Road, used mostly in recent years as a storehouse for the Norfolk Farmers Market, was demolished on May 2, as a small crowd of workers at Town Hall, including First Selectman Matt Riiska, cheered. The picture above shows the demolition in its early stages, as […]
Norfolk Sewer District Prepares for $4.2 Million in Repairs
Membership will meet to decide course of action By Wiley Wood A modest brick building beside the Blackberry River going toward Canaan houses Norfolk’s wastewater treatment plant. Bill Hester, the plant’s superintendent, points out a sunken concrete box near the building into which a 12-inch pipe discharges water. Although the influent looks only slightly […]
Wendy Roberts Reclaims the Beauty and Serenity of the Mountain View Inn
By Colleen Gundlach When Erastus Johnson built his stately Gilded Age home on the knoll just south of Norfolk’s Village Green in 1900, he named it Wildwood. This was a name that stayed with the property through its next owner, H.E. Adriance, a wealthy New York City resident who kept Wildwood as his summer […]
