Focus on New Firehouse shifts to funding
Costs likely to rise beyond initial $5 million estimate By Joe Kelly After months of sometimes contentious public hearings, plans for a new Norfolk firehouse are nearing the end of the wetlands/zoning part of the approval process and heading into a decisive new phase: finding the money to pay for it all. The Planning & […]
Land Use Veteran Appointed Norfolk ZEO
By Joe Kelly Norfolk has hired a veteran land use professional, Karl Nilsen, to take over as Zoning and Wetlands Enforcement Officer. Nilsen replaces Mike Halloran, who stepped down after 13 years. An earlier attempt to fill the position with a recent college graduate did not work out and the town renewed its search, ultimately […]
Pig Iron Films
East Canaan Landmark Was Inspiration for Filmmaking Business By Michael Cobb Perotti is a name well known throughout the northwest corner of Connecticut. Though he has worked as a plumbing apprentice for the family business, Perotti & Sons, Inc., Ted Perotti’s vocation has led him in a different direction – filmmaking. A native of East […]
Eye on Town Government
Funding City Meadow Discussed at Inlands Wetlands Agency By Susan MacEachron Construction of a pool house and tennis pavilion and restoration plans for City Meadow were the two issues discussed at the Inland Wetlands Agency (Wetlands) meeting on Feb. 5. Kevin Costello, an associate with Renee Byers Landscape Architect described the plans to build a […]
New Beginnings
Jennifer Almquist Works to Document the Faces of Homelessness and Poverty By Bina Thomson When Jennifer Almquist first heard an offhand comment about “the people living in the woods,” she had to find out more. Almquist, a lifelong resident of Northwestern Connecticut, knew that the woods between Norfolk and Winsted were not a good place […]
Selectman’s Corner
2023 Was a Budget Breaking Year and the Projects Keep Coming By Matt Riiska The year 2023 was not a good one in Norfolk for our budget. Dealing with the issues created by the gas spill, the snowstorm in March and then the flooding in July, our budget was stretched to the breaking point. These […]
Plan for Dog Park on Hold
Other potential sites being considered The Friends of the Norfolk Community Dog Park have announced that they are no longer planning to build a dog park on Westside road because the logistics for the site did not work out. Board president Joel Howard added, “We have received many generous donations and enthusiastic support for the […]
The Curling Weatherman
Russell Russ Has Written his 200th Norfolk Weather Column for Norfolk Now By David Beers What do you get when you combine a wry wit, Minnesota nice, the weather, some curling, and a woodsman sprinkled with maple sugar? You get Russell Russ. In April of 2006, three years after the start of Norfolk Now, Russ […]
Letters
Thank you, WINners! We, the Weekend in Norfolk Committee, would like to say yet again that we are grateful to be part of this town. We just completed our seventh successful Winter WIN weekend, and are looking forward to the ninth summer WIN on August 2, 3 and 4. What other town has such great […]
First Day of Spring and a Lunar Eclipse
The Celestial Sphere By Matthew Johnson The long-awaited vernal or spring equinox occurs on March 19 at 11:06 p.m., when the sun is directly over the equator. On the equinox (from the Latin for “equal”), we have an almost equal 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime, signifying the first day of spring […]
