Town Sets Lean Budget for Coming Year
Tax rates will rise By Wiley Wood Spring is when the bean counters at Town Hall reveal the budget for the coming year—and its consequences for taxpayers. This year the news is mixed. Town spending will go down in 2019-20, and the overall taxes the town will collect will drop by almost 3 percent. But […]
May, Spring Remedies
By Leslie Watkins Root beer anyone? Not the sweet, syrupy concoction found on the grocery shelf, but the real deal a tonic made from the roots and bark of wild-sourced medicinals designed to kick start your engine in the spring. The herbal drink was traditionally made with sassafras by indigenous peoples of the Americas. Europeans […]
Remembering Lois McKee
Lois Alice Patnoe McKee, age 71, of Norfolk, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. She is survived by sons Robert Boibeaux and Douglas Boibeaux and was predeceased by her son Colin Boibeaux. A graveside service will be held Saturday, May 18, at 1 p.m., at South Norfolk Cemetery.
Norfolk’s March 2019 Weather
Third Driest March on Record By Russell Russ March can be a month that sees some strong nor’easters that can bring heavy snow or rain or both. March of 2018 was a prime example, with three storms that helped push last March’s snowfall total to 43.5 inches. That was not the case this March. While […]
New Salvage Shed at Transfer Station
Shed will offer opportunity for sharing By Kelly Kandra Hughes As a town of only 1,600 people, Norfolk has become a throw-away society. In 2018, Norfolk residents generated over 1,000 tons of waste. Included in this number is municipal solid waste (i.e., our garbage) from residential, commercial, and industrial sources, as well as bulky waste […]
Chamber Music Festival Opens Volunteer Program
By Tom Hodgkin For over 75 years, Norfolk has been the site of the Yale Summer School of Music Chamber Music Festival, following up on Ellen Battell Stoeckel’s wishes that, upon her death, her property be used for “the benefit and development of the School of Music of Yale University and for extending said University’s courses […]