Two Child Care Centers Serve Norfolk
From Famine to Feast By Colleen Gundlach After surviving several months with no organized day care programs in town, Norfolk parents will now have the choice of two licensed options operated by Norfolk natives. One is a home-based early childhood care option in South Norfolk, and the other, a center-based model on Laurel Way. Donna […]
Trying For Another Award Winning Robot
The “Gearheads” from Regional #7 Gear Up For Competition By Joshua DeCerbo Emboldened by their success in last year’s Connecticut Regional Robotics Competition, a team of over 30 students from Northwest Regional School #7 have designed and built a totally new frisbee-throwing robot for this year’s event that opens at the Hartford Convention Center on March […]
Coming Soon: Low-cost Loans for Local Businesses
Coalition for Sound Growth launches new venture with National Iron Bank By Lloyd Garrison The non-profit Coalition for Sound Growth is poised to provide modest capital infusions to aspiring entrepreneurs in Norfolk who lack the credit to get a loan that they could afford to repay. “What makes Norfolk viable,” says coalition President Vint Lawrence, […]
Eye On Town Government
It’s That Time of Year Again Budgets dominate discussions at Town Hall By Wiley Wood With town budgets to be drawn up in March and voted on in April, discussions at Norfolk’s town hall this month were largely about projected spending for the coming year. On Feb. 5, members of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department […]
Arrest Imminent in Norfolk Copper Theft
Police say the perpetrators have been identified By Bob Bumcrot On the night of January 29, two men were recorded on videotape stealing copper gutters and downspouts in Norfolk. The metal was removed from the Church of Christ and other nearby sites, and loaded into a small truck. The short videotape of the theft can […]
View From the Green
A Good Place To Start By Colleen Gundlach I am a big fan of Charles A. Monagan. This long-time editor of Connecticut Magazine always seems to have his finger on the pulse of the state, and often irreverently tackles the tough issues in his “the tip” column each month. His “tip” for the March issue […]
Storm Nemo
By Lloyd Garrison Like Hurricane Sandy, the winter storm named Nemo was tracked several days in advance and prompted some forecasters to predict a “storm of the century.” Unlike Sandy, its full impact was limited to coastal areas and eastern Connecticut. A record 40 inches of snow fell in Hamden, a New Haven suburb. “It […]
Nemo Dumped a Pile of Snow But Never Matched the Hype
Norfolk’s roads cleared within 38 hours By Lloyd Garrison Like Hurricane Sandy, the winter storm named Nemo was tracked several days in advance and prompted some forecasters to predict a “storm of the century.” Unlike Sandy, its full impact was limited to coastal areas and eastern Connecticut. A record 40 inches of snow fell in […]
Supporting Young Artists’ Passions
The Battell Arts Foundation accepting scholarship application By Tom Hodgkin Amelia Benedict loved art from the beginning. In her first years, it was finger painting and play dough. Then, after art classes in grade school, her interest turned to oil painting, sculpture, and ceramic hand building. But when she first tried throwing clay on the […]
