What’s the Buzz? Beekeeping in Norfolk
By Star Childs As springtime rolls into summer, our plant world breaks into full bloom everywhere. The symbiotic annual ritual repeats as bees, insects, and hummingbirds hover and fly through the landscape collecting pollen and nectar to sustain themselves. In the process they are directly responsible for the cross pollination of myriads of fruiting […]
New Fire Truck and Road Machinery Authorized At Town Meeting
2007 – 08 Budget Approved By Bob Bumcrot About 150 citizens at the annual Town Meeting on May 14 approved the expenditure of not more than $468,467 to purchase a new truck for the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD). Fire Marshal Daryl Byrne explained that reconditioning the Department’s thirty-year-old truck could not bring it […]
The Norfolk Farmers Market
A Season of Good Things By Lisa Bazzano The farmers market subcommittee of the town’s economic development commission has met many times to reach this happy conclusion: Norfolk will hold a market on the last Saturdays of June, July, August and September from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. Farmers market subcommittee […]
View from the Green: Building to Last
By Shelley Harms On a recent trip to France, I was awed by the Roman amphitheatre in Nimes. This beautiful municipal building is truly timeless – used regularly for concerts and bullfights, it is 2,000 years old. Here in Norfolk, plans are underway for a new town building. It may not last 2,000 years, […]
Norfolk’s New Priest, Father Edwin Joseph Paniagua
By Gerry Brodnitzki When I was asked to write an article about our new priest at Immaculate Conception R.C. Church, I realized how much I still had to learn about him. Father Edwin advised me to write what I knew. And so, this is what I know. At the end of December 2006, Friar […]
Norfolk Then . . .
It is August 30, 1913, and newlyweds Hazel and Irving Whiting are setting out for an afternoon drive in their roadster. Hazel Gibbs grew up on Litchfield Road and joined the ranks of the June bride earlier that summer. By virtue of the century in which she lived, Hazel had escaped the clutches of Norfolk’s […]
