Dance Group Hosts Flash Mob in Great Barrington
By Ruth Melville On a frigid evening last December, the streets of Great Barrington were crowded with holiday shoppers taking part in the town’s annual Holiday Stroll. Slowly, a group of about 30 people—kids, teenagers and adults, gathered at the foot of Railroad Street. At first, nobody paid them much attention, but then a […]
Novelist and Cartoonist Peter Steiner Exhibits His Paintings
February’s Featured Artist at the Norfolk Library By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo There don’t seem to be enough creative expressions to satisfy Sharon resident Peter Steiner. His life path took him from college professor to cartoonist to novelist, with lots of painting along the way. Steiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended University of […]
Norfolk Land Trust Takes On 24 Acres in North Canaan
By Sally Quale Last September, the Norfolk Land Trust (NLT) was given 24 acres in North Canaan, located within the 1,500-acre Robbins Swamp, the state’s largest inland wetland complex. The majority of Robbins Swamp is a calcareous wetland with a small upland portion of primarily pine and hemlock. The Nature Conservancy and the state […]
Berkshire National Fish Hatchery
Volunteers work to preserve indigenous fish habitats By Michael Kelly It’s all about the water. At the Berkshire National Fish Hatchery (BNFH) in Hartsville, a hamlet of New Marlborough, Mass., 14 miles from Norfolk’s Village Green, 200 gallons a minute of pure 45-degree water from a deep underground aquifer course through 148 acres of […]
Norfolk’s November and December Weather and a Yearly Summary for 2016
A Snowy End to a Very Warm and Dry Year By Russell Russ After tracking a growing precipitation deficit and above average temperatures for the entire year, it was quite the twist in weather fate to have an early winter with snowy conditions before Thanksgiving. The closing months of 2016 were still a little […]
Farmers Market Gets New Manager
The Norfolk Farmers Market has just tapped Seth (Rusty) Warner, center, to be its new manager starting in early February. He succeeds Theresa Cannavo, who left to focus on her new business. A New Hartford resident, Warner is a soil scientist and consultant who specializes in building fertile soils using organic methods. He serves on […]
Norfolk House Destroyed by Fire
A fire consumed the house of Larkin Hasbrouck at 49 Estey Road in Norfolk on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 7. After crawling out of his house to safety, Hasbrouck made his way to the home of his neighbor and friend, Norfolk Now photographer Bruce Frisch, who returned to the site of the fire to […]
Norfolk Men’s Team Take Home Curling Trophy
A second generation of Norfolk curlers comes into its own By Wiley Wood It’s been a long drought, but on Sunday, Dec. 4, a homegrown Norfolk team won the Calder Trophy at the Men’s Invitational Bonspiel, hosted by the Norfolk Curling Club (NCC). Eighteen teams competed, converging on Norfolk from Philadelphia, Boston, New York […]
