View from the Green
Can Infinity Bistro Return? By Andra Moss Neighbors: if Norfolk is to have an evening restaurant, now is the time for action. GoodWorks Entertainment Group, owners since 2019 of Infinity Music Hall and Bistro, is inviting the town’s input on whether and how to reopen a restaurant at their property. GoodWorks will throw wide the […]
Inside the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
A season of student and community activity By Patricia Platt For over 80 years, the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Trust has endowed Yale University’s summer music and art programs in Norfolk. The renowned Yale Norfolk School of Art opens the 2026 summer season on May 23, before the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival begins, and shares its […]
Torrington Transfer Station Sale Dilemma
New trash authority faces critical vote By Joe Kelly With support from many towns (including Norfolk) and the backing of local state legislators from both parties, plans for a regional trash authority, the Northwest Resource Recovery Authority (NRRA), have gained momentum, but face a crucial test. Will the state hand over the Torrington Transfer Station […]
Trio Revives Local Farmers Market
Northwest Farm to Fork launches at Norbrook By Andra Moss When Devin Grosso and her husband moved to Norfolk in 2024, she was disappointed to learn that the town’s farmers market had permanently closed just the year before. However, a chance meeting at the Botelle School garden with Lisa Auclair, who had managed the Norfolk […]
Tracing the Dudley Legacy
Family history and the truth behind Dudleytown By Jude Mead The Dudley name, with roots stretching back to 14th-century England, carries with it a long and often dramatic history. For Susan Dudley of Winchester, that legacy has been a lifelong source of curiosity—particularly her family’s connection to Dudleytown, the long-abandoned settlement hidden within Cornwall’s Dark […]
Town Meeting May 11, No Tax Increase
By Henry Tirrell It’s busy for the town this time of year. Our public works crew has been out sweeping, patching and cleaning up after the long and snowy winter. The major projects in motion are the retaining wall on Route 44, the firehouse and the Mountain Road bridge, each in various stages of construction. […]
Building Inspector Retires
By Avice Meehan James Clarke, who has served as Norfolk’s building inspector for nearly nine years, retired at the end of April. His departure leaves a vacancy in both Norfolk and Falls Village at a critical moment as the town undertakes construction of a new firehouse and the Haystack Woods affordable housing community nears completion. […]
No Increase in Tobey, Transfer Sticker Prices
By Avice Meehan Stickers for the Norfolk transfer station and Tobey Pond will remain the same for the 2026-27 fiscal year that begins July 1, but the Board of Selectmen approved a $1 increase in the fee for disposing of small tires at their April 1 regular meeting. The Selectmen agreed to revisit the price […]
BoE Budgetary Maneuvering
By Avice Meehan The Board of Education addressed routine—and not so routine—matters at the March 31 meeting, including a resolution to request an additional $58,000 for the current year budget to resolve the fact that the town ran afoul of the state’s minimum budget requirement. The request will ultimately come before voters at the annual […]
Town Meeting is Quick Vote
By Avice Meehan The more than 100 Norfolk residents who gathered in the Hall of Flags at Botelle Elementary School made quick work of four major items at the April 6 town meeting. Gaveled into order at 7 p.m. by Town Clerk Debbie Nelson, the meeting lasted all of 20 minutes once voters elected Richard […]
