Norfolk Introduces Optical Scan Voting Machines
Making sure your vote counts By Colleen Gundlach A process that began with the voting debacle in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election comes to fruition on November 6, 2007, when Connecticut residents use the new AccuVote OS Optical Scan (OS) machines to choose their municipal leaders. The Help America Vote Act, signed into […]
View From the Green
Home Is Where Your Stuff Is? By Rosanna Trestman Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about home. In Norfolk, For Sale signs seem to be everywhere. I wonder where these people are going. Are they returning home? Are they making a new home elsewhere? How long does it take before it feels like home? […]
Selectman’s Corner
By Sue Dyer By the time the October issue of Norfolk Now is published, the sidewalks around the Village Green will be complete. Pilbin-Jones did a very good job on the installation and we must thank the Norfolk Community Associates, Peter Mulville, Carl Gabelmann, George Dyer, Jim Stotler and Bill Driscoll for all their […]
Robin Yuran: The Spirit of Norfolk Library
By Dorothy S. Pam Although self styled as the Shelf Mouse, Robin Yuran plays the role of library elf. Everyone, young or old, resident or visitor, cat or dog, who enters the Norfolk Library, is personally welcomed by the smiling, sometimes barefoot, sprite with flowers in her hair. Not only does she know […]
Photo Contest Celebrating Norfolk’s Natural Resources
The Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) Subcommittee of the Norfolk Conservation Commission/Wetlands Agency and the Norfolk Land Trust are holding a photo contest to illustrate its report of Norfolk’s natural, scenic and historic resources. The competition is open to all Norfolk residents, full or part-time, with monetary prizes and an opportunity to be included in the […]
Norfolk Then . . .
Suburban Sprawl? Look carefully and you may recognize most of the houses in this photograph, although it is unlikely you will see oxen on Grant Street today. This handsome pair belonged to Thomas Carroll, whose house is pictured at the right. Grant Street was one of the many streets that were opened in Norfolk at […]
Meadowbrook Seniors Get a Gazebo
A place to sit and chat By Sally Quale Eager to make this daydream a reality, the residents of Meadowbrook, Norfolk’s Senior Housing complex, embarked on plans to raise a gazebo for relaxation and gathering. With the a go-ahead from the Board of Directors, the residents began raising the necessary funds this summer. At […]
Letters to the Editor
Meeting venues In response to September’s “View from the Green” about venues throughout town to meet, and the potential need for a community center, The Church of Christ would like to remind all local groups that we have rooms available for meetings – from a classroom with a small conference table to a large dining room […]
Hay Truck Fire Closes Down Route 44
Four fire companies battle heat and smoke By Rosanna Trestman “It’s not something you run into too often,” confessed Norfolk’s Fire Chief, Daryl Byrne, referring to a hay truck fire on Saturday, September 8, that immobilized Route 44 for over four hours. Jerald and Janet Cole, who live in New Haven and regularly visit […]
Greenwoods Theater Remake Moves Into High Gear
Conversion to include full-service restaurant By Lloyd Garrison It took two days for four moving vans and a flat bed truck to haul away all the costumes, props and personal effects belonging to Greenwoods Associates LLC. Once Infinity Hall was finally emptied out on September 6, owner Dan Hincks was free to jumpstart sweeping […]
