Selectman’s Corner: Happy New Year!
Here are some reminders for January to keep in the back of your mind. The second half of your real estate taxes are due this month and must be paid by February 1, 2007. If your car registration is coming due and you have a Post Office Box, please remember to change your mailing address […]
Letter to the Editor: Greenwoods Theatre
The matter of attempting to foreclose on the Greenwoods Theatre for an unheard, unadjudicated, unproven tax bill raises a host of civil rights and constitutional issues, including equal protection of the law and the right to livelihood and economic enterprise. Judicial decisions at the state level are null and void if they violate the […]
2006: The Year in Real Estate
Norfolk bucks a national trend by Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo While existing home sales experienced a dramatic slowdown throughout the country in 2006, Norfolk’s real estate market didn’t fall off much from 2005. “It’s been very slow lately, but overall, 2006 was not a bad year,” says Betsy Little, owner of Betsy Little Real Estate. […]
Listen Up Norfolk Students! Scholarship Funds Available
The Greenwoods Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization, would like it to be known that there is money available for scholarships. The Foundation, based in Winsted, was incorporated in January of 1975 and has among its stated goals a desire “to provide the most beneficial distribution of funds to the greatest number of deserving students.” The […]
Wall at Battell Stoeckel Estate Comes Down
Part of the Battell Stoeckel estate wall is being removed “as a measure of safety” according to architect, Pete Anderson. About ten sections of the wall have been removed and the remainder will be stabilized for the winter. “This section of the wall is in the worst condition,” says Anderson, “parts of it are […]
Norfolk Now Declares Independence
The Paper acquires nonprofit status “We are pleased to inform you,” states part of a recent letter from the IRS to Norfolk Now, “that…we have determined that you are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501-c(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.” That was music to the ears of Norfolk Now’s editors and staff and […]
Norfolk’s November 2006 Weather
Warmest November on record By Russell Russ Here are the weather highlights from November as recorded at Norfolk’s National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Observer Station, Norfolk 2 SW, by the Great Mountain Forest Corporation. Norfolk 2 SW has recorded weather observations since January 1, 1932. November was a record setter. The month’s high temperature […]
Norfolk Then: Ice blocks from the “Icebox”
Harvesting ice was an important industry in Norfolk before the advent of mechanical refrigeration, and frozen ponds were kept free of snow not for skating, but to keep the ice from getting soft before the harvest. The Norfolk Ice Company operated on Pond Hill Pond, just east of town. There the ice froze especially thick; […]
Portrait of the Artist
Karen Rossi returns to Norfolk for much needed space by Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A family of whimsical, welded and painted metalwork has found a new home on Estey Road in South Norfolk. Karen Rossi, the author of this collection in progress, is still unpacking artwork that was formerly housed in a 10,000 square foot […]
Coming Soon: A Self Storage Complex On Route 44
Norfolk’s newest business will boost town tax revenues By Lloyd Garrison Construction is set to begin this spring on a 130 unit self-storage enterprise on Route 44, about 200 yards east of George’s Garage. Once in operation, it is expected to net the town between $800 and $900 a month in taxes. The one-story, […]
