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Posted by admin on March 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Did your parents or grandparents or great-grandparents come to Norfolk from Ireland? While our country is a melting pot of different cultures, languages, and heritages, Norfolk has a special affinity with the Irish. Names of Irish-American families who settled in Norfolk in the 19th century are familiar to us today: Curtiss, Dodd, Halloran, Hannafin, Mulville, […]
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Plan to Fight Homelessness in NW CT
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Everyone needs safe place to call home By Ruth Melville Rural homelessness may not be as visible as urban homelessness, but that does not make it less real or less painful. A 2011 point-in-time count suggests that on any given night over 150 people in the Northwest Corner are homeless, and the percentage of those […]
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First-Ever Farm Day at Norfolk Library
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Saturday, March 15, was Farm Day at the Norfolk Library. This inaugural event was a collaboration between the Norfolk Farmers Market and the library. The day started off with a showing of the film “The Greenhorns,” a charming and informative hour-long documentary about how young farmers get started in their careers. After a delicious–and […]
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Vintage Car Show Returns
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Get your motors running The sound of vintage automobiles will be heard again in Station Place, this time to benefit the Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance Fund. The second annual Classic Community Car Show will be held on July 13 from noon to 4 p.m. Organized by the Norfolk Economic Development Commission, the event will feature […]
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From Yemen to Station Place
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Owner of Corner Store Still Upbeat About Norfolk By Ruth Melville Like many similar stores in small New England towns, the Norfolk Corner Store finds it hard to remain profitable throughout the year. In our area alone, the Colebrook Store, which had been in continuous operation from 1812 until it closed in 2007, recently […]
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Second Winter Farmers Market Planned
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Norfolk Farmer’s Market held its first-ever indoor winter market at the town hall. There were local jams and jellies, greenhouse-grown shiitake mushrooms, hand-made salamis, Hudson Valley cheeses, olive oils, very local maple syrup, artisan-style breads and eggs from happy chickens. Somehow, all of this fit into the attic space that most Norfolkians know as […]
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Chili Cook-Off Hotly Contested
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
It was fiesta time at the Church of the Immaculate Conception when the Catholic Women’s Club hosted their midwinter chili cook-off on Saturday, Feb. 8. Twenty-two chilis were lined up for tasting in the church’s Klauer Hall. Among the more exotic offerings were vegetarian chilis, seafood chilis, and a moose meat chili, ranged alongside a […]
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The Big-Top Circus Makes a Whistle Stop in Norfolk
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Jugglers, a lion tamer, a sword swallower and an assortment of sideshow freaks occupied the stage at Battell Chapel on February 12 and paraded through the aisles while a top-hatted P. T. Barnum (Louise Davis) directed traffic with his riding crop. This visit from the Greatest Show on Earth was masterminded by the Isabella Eldridge […]
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Icebox Games
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Bounty of Snow and Cold Brings Wide Choice of Winter Activities By Janet Gokay Too bad about Sochi. While Olympic athletes and spectators alike were sunning themselves in 64-degree weather there on Valentine’s Day, the real winter sports were in full swing here in Norfolk. True, the spectacular snowfalls of the past few weeks […]
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Norfolk Then . . .
Posted by admin on February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
From Mother Goose to Ogden Nash, March winds have been the poet’s muse. In the familiar nursery rhyme, they bring April showers and May flowers. In 1888, however, March winds brought in the biggest blizzard to hit the Northeast in recorded history. Beginning on March 12, the storm lasted three days and crippled the region […]
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