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BE AWARE, BE HEALTHY The PTO’s first Parent Education Night will be held on Thursday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Media Center at Botelle School. The focus of this evening will be wellness for families and will cover a wide range of topics from diet, to stress, to exercise. The one hour presentation […]
Botelle’s Voltage Variables Make the Final Cut
By Michele Cyr With the addition of First Lego League added to the roster of after school programs sponsored by the Botelle PTO, this December, Norfolk students made state champions in the FIRST Lego League 2007 Power Puzzle Challenge in New Britain, CT. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a robotics […]
Avid Birders Flock to Norfolk
Pine Grosbeaks attract eco-tourists By Shelley Harms A rare incursion of northern birds from Canada has drawn birders from as far away as Vermont to Norfolk. Pine Grosbeaks are the main attraction. Every morning during the holiday week, groups with binoculars, cameras and spotting scopes stood on Shepard Road watching the birds eat small, orange […]
Norfolk Then…
Long before Fed Ex or DHL, this G. Fox & Co. helicopter made a door-to-door delivery to a Norfolk family. The year was 1947, and the helicopter was part of the company’s promotion of its 100th year as a retail fixture in Hartford. At that time, Bob Steele hosted the G. Fox Morning Watch radio […]
Norfolk Community News
BE AWARE, BE HEALTHY The PTO’s first Parent Education Night will be held on Thursday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Media Center at Botelle School. The focus of this evening will be wellness for families and will cover a wide range of topics from diet, to stress, to exercise. The one hour presentation […]
View From the Green
Housekeeping By Rosanna Trestman Norfolk Now is a work in progress. What you see on the pages each month is the result of long deliberation and experimentation, be it small tweaks in the layout or the addition of new content. Our growing staff has now lightened the load for the issue editor, who used to […]
All Wrapped Up
Norfolk Family Weathers Christmas Eve Break-In By Francesca Turchiano It was the day before Christmas, and sometime between 8:30 and 11 a.m., Gwen and Joe Green and their two young sons were victims of a brazen break-in at their home on Litchfield Road. The events of the day were dizzying. While Gwen Green was at […]
Town Plan Takes Shape
January meeting focuses on zoning and commercial development By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo A special meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission (P & Z) was held on January 17 at Town Hall to continue discussions on Norfolk’s town plan. The meeting, attended by over 30 people, was the fourth in a series addressing […]
Leave It To Beaver
It’s Only Natural By Star Childs Many folks have noticed increased beaver activity in wetlands alongside some of the roads in town. This is not because there are necessarily more beaver in our area than in other years, but rather the beaver have returned to these areas where adequate food and habitat resources abound […]
