Fourth Annual Norfolk Car Show at New Venue
Yale in Norfolk opens their grounds to raise funds for Emergency Services By Colleen Gundlach Vintage cars will line the austere campus of Yale in Norfolk and the sounds of music, laughter and fun will ring out as the Fourth Annual Norfolk Classic Community Car Show moves its venue to the Music Shed parking […]
Selectman’s Corner—September 2016
Town Website, Assessments, Animal Control Officer By Sue Dyer If you haven’t seen the town’s new website it’s worth a visit; go to norfolkct.org. It is extremely well done and innovative. The assessor will be doing inspections during the month of September on improved real estate, either as a drive-by inspection or by making […]
Frequent Sightings of Bears This Summer Alarm and Intrigue Norfolk Residents
By Jude Mead I am sitting at my deck on a quiet sunny afternoon. The birds are chirping. The breeze is light and warm. I am sipping fresh homemade lemonade. Suddenly, from around the corner of my house appears a large black bear that begins to climb the stairs toward my front door […]
Through the Garden Gate
September, Life En Plein Air By Leslie Watkins Until recent history, human animals have lived mostly out of doors. In the current age of runaway consumerism and modern convenience, we have shifted from spending most of our daylight hours outside to an average of just 90 minutes a day, and that’s in summer! We […]
July 2016 Real Estate Transfers
On July 1, Celena Lalli to Brandy R. and Shannon J. Sharack, 916 Litchfield Road, $140,000. On July 1, Sheila Ball and Carl A. Bouplon III to Salisbury Bank & Trust Co., 965 Litchfield Road, $39,417. On July 1, Great Mountain Forest Corp. to Richard S. Childs and John M. Funt, 17 acres […]
Confucians Hold a Community Picnic
On Sunday, August 21, the Confucian Study Association invited the town to a picnic to introduce themselves to the Norfolk community. All the food, which was vegetarian and delicious, was prepared by the members, many of whom had come up from New Jersey for the occasion. The weather was perfect, and the hosts and a […]
Additional Downtown Parking Planned for Town Hall
One of the chief objections to the new convenience store and deli has been the lack of available parking downtown. At its June meeting, the Board of Selectmen voted to assign $6,000 of town money to the construction of eight to nine parking spaces along the back wall of Town Hall, intended as overflow parking […]
Norfolk’s July 2016 Weather
Sunny and Warm By Russell Russ July is typically the warmest month of the year for Norfolk, and this year was no exception. With a majority of warm and sunny days it was a very nice summer month. The downside of that is our increasing rainfall deficit. We are getting just enough rain to […]
