Norfolk Lost and Found
This handsome fellow guards the entrance to someone’s house. Do you know where he is? Photo by Bruce Frisch.
Peppering Norfolk’s Roads With Chlorides
The high snowfalls and bitterly cold days of January and February have kept Norfolk’s snowplow drivers busy and made serious inroads on the town’s supply of road salt. As of mid-February, First Selectman Sue Dyer reports, the town had spent $130,000 on salt, or $30,000 more than budgeted. At $85/ton, the Public Works Department has […]
Funding Sought for Workforce Training Program
Young people leave the Northwest Corner because there are no jobs. And employers find the qualified workforce pretty thin. A new initiative, endorsed by the Board of Selectmen, would document the workforce skills needed by regional employers and coordinate with high schools, trade schools, community colleges and universities to see that appropriate training is available. […]
Town Starts Repair of Aging Sewer Pipes
The Norfolk Sewer District will reline the sewer pipes along Laurel Way this season. Green Mountain Pipeline Services of Vermont has been picked to perform the work, at a cost of $50–60,000, said Ronald Zanobi, chairman of the Sewer District, at a January 28 meeting. Norfolk’s sewer pipes are among the oldest in Connecticut. The […]
Back to Drawing Board for City Meadow Park
Construction faces at least six-month delay By Christopher Sinclair The project to transform the sunken wetland in Norfolk’s town center into a park and storm-water treatment site has been rebuffed by state and federal permitting authorities, according to Steven Trinkaus, the project’s consulting engineer. The plan received a $500,000 state grant in September 2014. It […]
Milestones
Katherine McClintock, Active Volunteer in Norfolk, Dies Katherine Gillett McClintock, 93, died on February 9, 2015. She grew up in Pelham Manor, N.Y. and in 1943 married Brower McClintock. They made their home in Bronxville, N.Y., then retired to her family’s longtime summer home in Norfolk, moving in 1993 to Ashlar Village in Wallingford, Conn., […]
It’s Only Natural, March 2015
Looking for Antlers in the Winter Woods By Wiley Wood Deer hunting season ends in November, but a new season starts in February: shed hunting. It doesn’t require a gun or a license from the state. The point is to find antlers in the woods that have been shed recently by white-tail bucks. I learned […]