Curling Club Starts to Rebuild
Fundraising Gears Up as Plans for New Curling House Go Out to Builders By Wiley Wood The rubble is gone. A long slab of concrete, painted with targets on either end and lying in a vacant lot on Golf Drive, is all that remains of the Norfolk Curling Club, which was torched by arsonists […]
Selectmen’s Corner
By Sue Dyer The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Flags at Botelle School. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, June 2. Drop-off will be at the Public Works Facility in Falls Village from 9 a.m. to noon. This is an opportunity to […]
Susan B. Anthony Project Serves Northwest Corner Towns
Stopping the Cycle of Abuse Through Communal Effort By Colleen Gundlach When geese fly, their formation allows each individual member to be pulled along and uplifted by the drafts of air created by the bird flying in front. When a goose is sick or injured, other geese leave the formation to provide assistance. These […]
Colebrook-Norfolk School Merger Gets a Fresh Look
Joint Study Committee Holds First Meeting By Bob Bumcrot With primary-school enrollments projected to decline and per-student costs expected to rise over the next decade, a study committee has been formed to examine the possibility of a merger between the Norfolk and Colebrook schools. A first public meeting was held on April 10 at […]
Community News—May 2012
Concert for Two Harpsichords The playlist includes two “echo” canzonas from the Italian Renaissance, Bach’s Concerto in C, and two improvisational sonatas by Nicolo Pasquini. The performers, who will play a pair of matched instruments made by Norfolk harpsichord maker Carl Dudash, are Mariken Palmboom, who studied in The Hague and Antwerp, and Christine Gevert, […]
Lecture Offered on Conservation of Sandy Brook
An ambitious plan to protect the Sandy Brook watershed, a 17-mile expanse of land that crosses northeastern Norfolk as well as parts of Colebrook, Sandisfield, and other surrounding towns, is being spearheaded by Aton Forest. A broad coalition of land-preservation groups, municipalities, and landowners will be called on to bring this effort, known as the […]
Tokyo Quartet Announces Retirement
The Tokyo String Quartet will retire from the concert stage at the end of the 2012-2013 season. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles, they have been in residence annually at the Norfolk Festival since 1977, and their final concert will be a benefit for the restoration of the Music Shed in Norfolk […]
Northwest Regional’s Robotics Team Win Major Award
“Gearheads” Travels to International Championship By Joel Howard Winning is as much a journey as it is an end objective, as the Gearheads have learned over the past four months. Just three month ago, Northwest Regional High School’s robotics team was meeting after school almost every day to get their new club organized and […]
Norfolk Library Hosts N.H. Artist with Long Ties to Norfolk
Painting in oils on board, a technique virtually unchanged since the Renaissance, Jane Gold makes “small, very detailed” still lifes and portraits, 26 of which will be on view at the Norfolk Library during the month of May. Two of the portrait subjects are Norfolk residents, and a motif from one of the Tiffany windows […]
Mary Fanette Named Volunteer of the Year
Caption: Mary Fanette, the 2012 Volunteer of the Year, shown distributing toasts before a curling match. When the town of Norfolk needed a website, Mary Fanette took a course in HTML, the basic building block of all websites. She helped design and build the town site, which she runs and maintains today. “I’m not […]
