Norfolk

NORFOLK — Sixteen months after the Norfolk Curling Club was destroyed, the skeleton of a new structure has been built, and club President Mary Fanette said the new facility will open before the next curling season.
On Dec. 18, 2011, the original clubhouse, which was built in 1956 at 70 Golf Drive, was burned to the ground by two admitted arsonists. No one was hurt in the fire, but everything in the clubhouse, including an ice rink, equipment, irreplaceable curling stones and other memorabilia, were destroyed.

NORFOLK — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Dec. 28 that Norfolk is one of 35 communities spanning the state that will benefit from a new round of open space grants.
Malloy said more than $9 million in Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition grants had been approved to support the 35 communities in purchasing 2,732 acres to be preserved as open space. Norfolk’s grant of $248,000 will go toward the Norfolk Land Trust’s acquisition of 311 acres adjoining the Girl Scouts’ Camp Iwatka, off Grantville Road, where Smith Pond feeds into the Mad River.

NORFOLK — The Whiffenpoofs, Yale University’s storied male a cappella group, is set for a holiday matinee concert at Norfolk’s Infinity Hall.
The Dec. 9 event will also feature The Quirks, the esteemed female a cappella group from Trinity College in Hartford. In a gesture of generosity, Infinity Hall and Yale Summer School of Music have underwritten the costs of the event so that all proceeds will benefit the Norfolk Library.
Dan Hincks, owner of Infinity Hall, is known for his generosity to the community.

NORFOLK — The Free Spirit women’s motorcycle club attracted more than 200 people to Maasser Park on Route 44 Sunday, Sept. 23, for a party that raised money for Torrington’s Center for Cancer Care.
The 11th annual event, organized by club member Dina Hague Viel and friends, started with a 10 a.m. scavenger hunt for children at the cancer center’s Torrington campus at 200 Kennedy Drive. By noontime, the rock and blues band, The Ruins, was tuning up and getting ready to take the crowd through its renditions of tunes from the 60s, 70s and 80s.