Touring Musician Posts Norfolk Video Online
While in Norfolk on February 27 to play a concert at Infinity Hall, folk musician Brett Dennen wandered the downtown area and made a short video, which has recently been posted to YouTube. In it he comments drolly on the nonexistent rush-hour traffic, the overly solicitous signs and the friendliness of the locals—who remained […]
Rosemary Gill Reads Dorothy Parker
As the audience drifted into the Norfolk Library on Saturday, April 5, they were directed to the reference room, where a gleaming tray of martinis greeted them. The story on offer that evening, “Here We Are,” was written by the Algonquin Round Table stalwart Dorothy Parker in 1931, a time when it was not unusual […]
Eye on Town Government
By Wiley Wood At the Board of Selectmen’s regular meeting on April 1, 2014, a letter from a Norfolk resident prompted a discussion of crime prevention. First Selectman Sue Dyer had investigated the possibility of hiring a constable to help the resident trooper with his duties. Her research revealed that the town would have to […]
Norfolk’s February Weather
Eighth Snowiest on Record By Russell Russ Old Man Winter made his presence known in December, established himself in January and decided to stick around through February. No temperature records were broken, but it was a cold month. And then there was the snow. Again not record shattering, just regular and steady snowfalls […]
View from the Green
Corner Store: The Public’s Feedback By Ruth Melville Norfolk residents are known for their willingness to come to the aid of someone in trouble, and they were quick to respond to owner Fadhl Saleh’s request in last month’s Norfolk Now for suggestions on how to improve business at the Corner Store. Most of […]
Selectman’s Corner
New Emergency Notification System By Sue Dyer The Town of Norfolk is implementing an emergency notification system in cooperation with Everbridge, a private company. The program, known as “Alert Norfolk,” is intended to provide Town Hall community-wide contact. The information we currently have for town residents was obtained through the white […]
Winter Snows Are Tough on Town Roads
Crews work overtime to keep up By John G. Funchion An unrelenting winter with its lingering blanket of snow and ice pummeled Norfolk this year, and its aftermath left our town with a spate of nerve-jangling, car-wrecking swells, depressions and potholes. Most of the concerns of residents were not so much about potholes but about […]
Norfolk Then . . .
Spring piglets? Although we don’t know the time of year this photograph was taken, the litter of piglets asleep near the warmth of a cast-iron stove may well have been born at the end of a long Norfolk winter. The photograph is one of many Marie Hartig Kendall (1854-1943) took of Norfolk farm scenes at […]
Naylor to Norfolk: Lock Before Leaving
Resident trooper fields questions on how to cope with break-ins By Lloyd Garrison Greg Naylor, Norfolk’s resident state trooper, advised a spirited public meeting on March 4 on ways to deter home burglaries, but he saw no end in sight to the rise here in drug-related thefts. “With heroin selling for as little as five dollars […]
PTO Embezzler Granted Probation
Former Treasurer Pays Back $13,000 By Wiley Wood Vanessa Millard, the former treasurer of the Botelle School Parent Teachers Organization (PTO), appeared in Bantam Superior Court on March 5. Arrested last October for stealing her organization’s funds, she produced a check in court for over $13,000 by way of restitution. Millard had […]
