Disaster Aid in the Age of Facebook
Norfolk Connects with the South Pacific By Susannah Wood On March 13, a category five typhoon with winds of 165 mph landed right on top of Vanuatu, a South Pacific republic about 8,600 miles from Norfolk, Conn. The typhoon flattened most of the structures on this archipelago of 86 islands, killing 11, injuring more than […]
Sports Powerhouses Win Berkshire League
Long summer days at Tobey Pond and Doolittle Lake have paid off for six young Norfolk swimmers, as they helped propel their high school swim team to its third straight Berkshire League championship and a third-place finish at the Class S state finals. Prospects for next year are also bright, as none of these students graduated […]
Free “Camperships” Offered for Camp Jewell
The Norfolk Connecticut Children’s Foundation (NCCF) is pleased to offer free summer camperships at YMCA’s Camp Jewell in Colebrook, CT. Norfolk families are invited to pick up an application form and Camp Jewell brochure at the Norfolk Library, National Iron Bank and Norfolk Town Hall. Forms and brochures will also be sent home from Botelle […]
Joel Webster, Norfolk’s Olympic Wrestling Hopeful
By Christopher Sinclair Since Norfolk’s earliest days, the people who live here have possessed both mental and physical fortitude, and are not quick to shy away from hard work. Joel Webster, native Norfolkian, has displayed an exceptional degree of grit and determination that would make any Norfolk resident proud, in the pursuit of his lifelong […]
Where the Arts and Nature Meet
By Lindsey Rotolo The new town map was completed in early April, through the hard work of the map committee — Sue Frish, Pete Anderson, Jim Nelson, Richard Byrne, Bella Erder and Hans Carlson. The map will be widely distributed by the second week of May. Berkshire Brochures will handle the distribution, ensuring the map’s […]
Renewal of Resident Trooper Contract Comes Up for Town Vote
Cost Will Depend on Results of Legislative Session By Wiley Wood Voters will face a choice at Norfolk’s town meeting on May 11 whether to renew the resident trooper contract for another two years. Under Governor Malloy’s proposed budget, the state will no longer subsidize 30 percent of the cost as in past years. If […]
Norfolk Hair Station Hits the Rails in Station Place
Eagerly awaited new hair salon opens this month By Colleen Gundlach The light that went out on Station Place last December at the closing of Great Impressions hair salon is being rekindled. Less than five months after Tammi Pavano closed her business next to the former Corner Store, a new owner has filled the empty […]
Regionalization Plan Update
State Board of Education Agrees to Recommend a 10-Year Waiver By Ruth Melville The plan to create a new regional school district for Norfolk and Colebrook got over a major obstacle on the road to referendum when the State Board of Education, rejecting the recommendation of a subcommittee, agreed to support the Regional School Study Committee’s […]
Board of Finance Aims at Tax Decrease
Town Budget Will Wait on State Decisions By Wiley Wood At a budget meeting of Norfolk’s Board of Finance, Chairman Michael Sconyers reviewed the town’s spending projections for 2015-2016, snipping away a few thousand here and a few thousand there, in the end reducing the selectmen’s proposal by $70,000. “I’m desperate to do a tax […]
View from the Green
Our Disappearing Amphibians By Shelley Harms After a long, snowy winter, the calls of wood frogs and spring peepers from Norfolk’s thawing ponds are a welcome sign of spring. Especially this year, when the wood frogs made their latest appearance in memory in my pond, still half iced-over when a few hardy little souls started […]
