Norfolk Fourth Graders Get Up Close With Nature
Fourth-grade students at Botelle School were invited to touch a boa constrictor as part of a live demonstration of the food pyramid presented on December 14 by Margery Winters of the Roaring Brook Nature Center. In a related experiment, Winters set a toad on the floor of the classroom and sprinkled worms in front of […]
Botelle School Hosts Japanese Drum Players
Principal and Students Take to the Stage to Beat Their Own Drums Taiko means “drum” in Japanese but in this country generally refers to a traditional style of Japanese drumming on a variety of percussion instruments. In a lively session in Botelle’s auditorium on December 9, the One World Taiko ensemble demonstrated the heart-pounding beats, dynamic movement and rhythmic grooves of the ancient […]
Plantin’ Seeds in North Canaan Celebrates Farming
By Ruth Melville Plantin’ Seeds Farm Kitchen, a new café and gathering place in North Canaan, is not your traditional restaurant. For one thing, it doesn’t charge money for its meals. Instead, it is a community resource, a mission and a project still taking shape. Plantin’ Seeds is the brainchild of Dale McDonald, a […]
Wind Turbine Neighbors Report Adverse Effects
Green Energy, Sick Neighbors By Wiley Wood It was mid-October, and Peg Papanek was thinking how lucky she was to live on Schoolhouse Road and bask in Norfolk’s beautiful weather and fall colors. She had built a fabulous patio during the summer. Now she was packing for a trip to Asheville, N.C., where she […]
Local Man Wins a Yankee Magazine 2015 Food Award
David Davis’s Hillhome Country Products jam is a winner By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo David Davis, owner of Hillhome Country Products, was surprised to receive a call from Yankee Magazine last August informing him that one of his jams was selected from dozens of finalists in their annual food honors. “The call came completely out […]
Art Show in Norfolk’s Downtown
Aija, the gift store in Norfolk’s Station Place, will host an exhibition of ten local artists during the month of December. The artists sre Katherine Griswold, Tom Hlas (left, above), Fay O’Meara, Babs Perkins, Gary Rawson, David Roelofs, Turi Rostad, Susan Rood, Harmony Tanguay, Castle Yuran and Robin Yuran. Photos by Bruce Frisch.
Norfolk Resident Bob Gilchrest Guides Redesign of Falls Village
New Paving and Lights Make Main Street Safer for Pedestrians By Ruth Melville Thanks in large part to the efforts of Norfolk resident Bob Gilchrest, the town of Falls Village has a newly redone town center, designed to be both safer and more attractive. The Falls Village project was instigated by safety concerns. […]
Photographing a Long and Winding Road
Route 22 North By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Part-time Norfolk resident Rick Schatzberg was interested in photography as a collector for decades, but didn’t start taking photos himself until five years ago. He spends a lot of time on a bicycle, in Brooklyn, where he and his wife, Marilyn, also have a home, and in […]
A Family Effort for the Win
Racing Champion in Our Midst By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo One should never question a parent’s intuition about their child. Keith Goring, who has run Alfas Unlimited, Inc. on Greenwoods Road for 40 years, knew that his son was meant to be a race car driver long before the kid even had a license. Jonathan […]
