Norfolk’s March Weather
The Third Warmest March on Record By Russell Russ The month’s high temperature of 65 degrees was observed on March 19, 20 and 21. It was a record high for March 19, beating the old record of 60 degrees set in 1945. The low temperature of 17 degrees was observed on March 27. The average […]
Briefly…
Hold Those Books Please note that the Norfolk Library will be closed from Monday, May 24 to Friday, May 28. The floors are being refinished… Garlic Mustard Time There are notices up around town to help explain how to remove the dreaded garlic mustard from roadsides, yards and gardens. Now is the time to pull […]
Milestones
Died – Ruth Philpotts Kopp, age 85, of Norfolk, died on February 11 in Salisbury, Conn. She was the mother of Bradford, Jeffrey and Alexander, the mother-in-Law of Jean, Susan and Kim and the grandmother of Duncan, Tyler and Andrew. Mrs. Kopp began her summers in Norfolk in 1961 and later became a full-time resident. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, […]
A Norfolk-Charlottesville Connection
Russell Childs honored by Montpelier Foundation by Linda Childs On February 21, a crisp Sunday during Black History Month, a crowd of almost 200 gathered in Orange, Va., at the gateway to James Madison’s historic home, Montpelier, to dedicate the newly-restored Montpelier Depot train station to the memory and vision of one of Norfolk’s own, […]
Letters
Giving People What They Want Ms Trestman’s comments in the February issue about having a grocery store in Norfolk brought back some horrible memories to my wife, Louise Schimmel, and me. What ended as Dina’s started in 1996 as Greenwoods Market and Café. We kept it going for three very long years. Our basic assumption […]
Some Recycling News and a Few Reminders
Starting May 1, the Town will begin accepting all plastic food and beverage containers numbering one through seven. Until now the only plastic containers we could accept were numbers one and two. All containers must be under three gallons. Here is a quick reminder of what you can recycle at the Transfer Station. All newspapers […]
Campfire Cooking Workshop Held
A Camp Fire Cooking workshop was held on Saturday, April 24 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Shelter on Golf Drive. Joe Brien of Lost Arts Workshops taught participants to make stew in a Dutch oven, broil meat over hot coals, boil water with hot rocks, and to bake biscuits and cookies in a […]
A Striped Menace Threatens Our Ponds and Lakes
By Star Childs As summer approaches and thoughts turn to boating on freshwater lakes and rivers, everyone must be vigilant of a new ecological threat to our bodies of water. Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, have made their way from the distant Black and Caspian Seas of Eurasia and Russia to our Great Lakes and other […]
Botelle’s Therapy Dog Program helps students read
A Student’s Best Friend By Jill Hall On Thursday mornings, you will find Maryann Beauchene spending time at Botelle School, not in her usual role as the school’s Media Specialist, but instead, with two special four-legged friends, Remy and Buddy. These loving standard poodles are not just her pets, they are Certified Reading Therapy Dogs. […]
Trooper Greg Naylor Becomes a Spokes-Person
Mountain bike patrolling comes to Norfolk By Veronica Burns State Trooper Greg Naylor assures us he will not be doing any wheelies on his recently acquired mountain bike, a 27-speed Stumpjumper. “No no,” he emphasizes, “we tell kids all the time not to do that.” Naylor will also be sure to wear a helmet when […]
