Memorial Day Five-Mile Race Is Run in Near-Record Time
The Memorial Day 5-Mile Road Race was run in cool, almost ideal conditions. A field of 156 runners took their positions at the starting line, ranging in age from eight to 88. The race was won by Brandon Leclair of Goshen, 20, in a near-record time of 27:54. Leclair also won the race in 2014 […]
Light Rain Falls on Norfolk Parade but Fails to Dampen Spirits
The Memorial Day parade formed on Maple Avenue at 9 a.m., despite a spattering of rain. In the forefront were Norfolk’s veterans and active service members, followed by its fire fighters and their gleaming pumper truck, the ambulance corps with their vehicle and a number of youth groups and teams. The marchers proceeded around […]
Construction Begins on Affordable Housing Units
Groundbreaking ceremony held on April 20 By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo The weather on April 20 served as the perfect metaphor for the decade long endeavor to bring affordable housing to Norfolk. The morning began with a cold, plodding rain, but the skies brightened as 11 a.m. rounded the clock and the official groundbreaking ceremony […]
City Meadow Finally Ready for Its Makeover
Construction to start in late June By Wiley Wood The City Meadow project cleared its final regulatory hurdle at a public hearing on April 25 when the Planning and Zoning Commission approved an application for an earth excavation permit, as required by town statutes for projects of more than 250 cubic yards. The construction […]
Our Native Wildlife Needs Native Plants
By Shelley Harms Ah, spring in Norfolk! Frog choruses, birdsong, green leaves and . . . burgeoning invasive plants. It’s time to pull up the garlic mustard and chop out those invasive shrubs like honeysuckle, barberry and burning bush. Alien invasive plants are spreading all over town—they are probably growing in your own backyard. […]
Earth Day Celebration at Great Mountain Forest
A large group gathered at Great Mountain Forest on April 22 to celebrate its first-ever Earth Day Camp Fire Poetry Reading. It was a beautiful evening, with a pink sky to the west and the sun reflecting off the hills to the east. Various selections were chosen by each of the scheduled readers—works by Robert […]
William Eggers Loves to Make Stuff
By Ruth Melville When Bill Eggers was 10 years old, he took the motor out of the family lawnmower and put it into a little wooden car he had built himself. A policeman brought him home and complained to his mother that he had been going 50 miles an hour on the highway. She […]
Painter, Photographer and Printmaker Shows at Norfolk Library
The Art of Chance Encounters By Melissa Stevenson The Norfolk Library’s newsletter, “The Owl,” describes Sallie Ketcham as a mixed-media artist. Memories of elephant poop and political argument might come to mind, but luckily, in this instance, “mixed-media” refers to an artist with an interest, and capabilities, in several different creative mediums. While these […]
Botelle Students Perform ‘Charlotte’s Web’
By Lauren Valentino The curtain rose for Botelle School’s performance of “Charlotte’s Web” on Thursday, April 6 and the audience—young, old and in-between—was entertained by this long-time favorite story of an unlikely friendship between a young pig and a wise spider. Directed by Bruce Connelly and Elizabeth Allyn as part of the Norfolk After School […]
The Nuts, Bolts and Tools to Start Your Own Business
The Entrepreneurial Center of Northwest Connecticut offers training and support By Colleen Gundlach With increasing technology and internet access, more and more people are leaving traditional jobs to pursue the dream of owning their own businesses. Going solo into a new business can be a difficult, time-consuming and expensive endeavor, but a new program at […]
