Maintaining a Proud History While Moving Toward the Future
Norfolk Cooperative Weather Station gets new equipment By Colleen Gundlach Much of Norfolk’s identity is tied to the weather. The town is known not only as the Icebox of Connecticut, but it is also well known for its historical weather station located in Great Mountain Forest (GMF). Norfolk Now readers are very familiar with the […]
A New Farm Spreads Its Roots
Sharing the earth’s bounty at Northwest Corner Farm By David Beers Among the vast woods between Norfolk and Winsted there is a patch of fields on Grantville Road, just over the town line in Winchester. For decades, this open patch lay quiet. Then, in 2023, it came alive with the activity of the Northwest Corner […]
Rough Terrain Rescues
Something To Be Proud Of: Norfolk’s Rope Rescue Team By Jimmy Powelzyk Many Norfolk residents are unaware of a highly skilled and trained group of volunteers in our community: the members of the Northwest Rope Rescue Team, part of the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department. Six Norfolk men (“rope techs”) are currently part of this team. […]
Eversource to Sell Aquarion, Alter Ownership Structure
Will ending PURA oversight mean higher water rates? By Joe Kelly Aquarion Water Company—and by extension Norfolk’s public water system—may be about to undergo a massive shift in ownership. Eversource Energy, which purchased Aquarion in 2017 but put it up for sale a year ago amid regulatory tensions and reversals in its wind energy investments, […]
Local Affordable Housing Groups Pioneer New Model
Bundling projects helps meet state minimums By Leila Javitch It’s an exciting spring for affordable homes in Northwest Connecticut. Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity (LCCHO) has fit together a program to build 10 new homes on scattered sites in five northwest towns via partnerships with each town’s volunteer affordable housing group. In Norfolk, the […]
Draft School Budget Shows Modest Increase
Annual cost for Botelle School is $2.7 million By Avice Meehan The Board of Education (BOE) is considering a budget of $2,762,690 for the upcoming fiscal year, which represents an increase of 4.29 percent over this year’s adopted budget of $2,649,086. The draft budget was presented at the Feb. 11 board meeting and will be […]
Norfolk’s Superintendent to Retire
Colebrook principal also stepping down By Avice Meehan Changes in school leadership are afoot in both Norfolk and Colebrook with the nearly simultaneous but unrelated retirement announcements by the school superintendent in Norfolk and the principal of the Colebrook Consolidated School. Mary Beth Iacobelli, who became Norfolk’s superintendent in 2014, shared her decision with the […]
Future Proofing
Norfolk, Colebrook Hold Joint Meeting About Schools By Avice Meehan The Hall of Flags at Botelle Elementary School has been the scene of many important Norfolk meetings, but few have carried as much significance as the Feb. 20 joint session with Colebrook to explore how the towns might work together to address declining school enrollments. […]
New Cell Tower Location Proposed
Informational meeting to be held March 26 By Avice Meehan Verizon Wireless has dropped plans to erect a cell tower off Old Goshen Road and is now seeking to locate the 186-foot tower on part of a 40-acre parcel off Estey Road in South Norfolk. An informational meeting about the proposed tower has been scheduled […]
The Manor House and a Tiny House- Two Public Hearings at P&Z
By Susan MacEachron The application by the owners of the Manor House to build a day spa generated a significant number of letters and emails to the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z). P&Z decided that the Feb. 11 continuation of the public hearing would be limited to reading all such correspondence into the record with […]
