Lions Club Honors Barbara Tracey
Barbara Tracey recently stepped down as the long-time treasurer of the Norfolk Lions Club. For her many years of service safeguarding the club’s financial health and for her exemplary help with countless other projects, Tracey was presented the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award, a nation-wide award named after the founder of Lions Club International, and one […]
Eye On Town Government
Grants, Road Maintenance, Land Use, and Fiber-Optics Discussed By Wiley Wood At a selectmen’s meeting on August 6, First Selectman Sue Dyer reported that two grants the town had recently applied for had been denied: a Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP) grant from the state to renovate downtown sidewalks and a Main Street grant […]
Norfolk’s July Weather
Warmest Month on Record By Russell Russ July 2013 was a record breaker across New England. Many locations experienced their warmest month ever. The same was said after July 2012, but that month came in at only Norfolk’s seventh warmest. This year, however, Norfolk was not to be left out. Monthly averages for Stamford, Bridgeport, […]
Community Talent Provides After-School Program for Botelle Students
By Janet Gokay Life in Norfolk is greatly enriched by the work of volunteers—and the Norfolk After School Program (NASP) is no exception. Coordinated by two parent volunteers, Kim Crone and Kathy Yelsits, the program offers a potpourri of classes to any grade-school-aged child in Norfolk, not just those attending Botelle. Many of those classes […]
Norfolk Fire Department Awards Memorial Day Race Scholarships
The traditional kick-off to Norfolk’s summer season, the five-mile Memorial Day Road Race is won by the fleet of foot. But the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department, which organizes the race, also dedicates all proceeds from entrance fees, advertising and donations to its NVFD Scholarship Fund. This year, the fund distributed $3,500 to five Norfolk students. […]
Honoring A Pillar Of The Community
Thousands of students spent their summers on the Battel Stoeckel campus during Bill Gridley’s tenure as a trustee there, and untold thousands came to enjoy the music and art that resulted. Gridley is widely credited with maintaining the estate through a difficult period, 1992-2012, and initiating the renovations to Whitehouse. At a dinner and concert […]
Norfolk Lions Club Scholarships Announced
The Norfolk Lions Club recently awarded scholarships to four Norfolk students who will be attending college this fall. The recipients include: Taylor Allyn, daughter of John and Lisa Allyn, enrolled at New College of Sarasota, Florida with a major in English; Shannon Bollard, daughter of Alfred and Angela Bollard and also an English major, attending […]
Oh, Noooooooo!
Farmer’s Market Stages Summer Fun: Mud wrestling and a pie-eating contest are still in Norfolk’s future, apparently, but the farmer’s market held an agricultural fair on Saturday, August 24 that incorporated many of the traditional elements of a county fair. There were music, fast food, large vegetables, and guess-the-weight contests. There was a juried bake-off […]
Community News
Upcoming Aton Forest Workshops Join us at Aton Forest in September to get outside and learn about what’s happening in our natural world. There will be a variety of offerings including programs on Fall Wildflowers (Sept. 7), Wild Mushrooms (Sept. 14) and Grass Identification (Sept. 25). For more information please visit www.atonforest.org or contact us […]
Norfolk Then . . .
The railroad was a visible part of the Norfolk landscape a century ago. Constructed in 1870, it approached the village from the south along Litchfield Road, first passing through the hamlet of Grantville near Winchester Road. After skirting the Village Green to the east, the tracks crossed under Greenwoods Road (Route 44) at the entrance […]
