Board of Selectmen: It’s Budget Time
By Ruth Melville What would the town want with a 1.4-acre parcel of land on Greenwoods Road East across from the transfer station? The parcel was offered to the town by the State of Connecticut for $12,000, and the offer was the first item on the agenda at the March 2 Board of Selectmen (BoS) […]
A Wet Month With Below-Normal Snowfall
By Russell Russ February was a wet month. There was some snowfall, but it was mostly rain and freezing rain for precipitation this month. It was not ideal for wintertime weather in Norfolk. Last February was a snow lover’s paradise with 35 inches of snowfall. That was not the case this February, with not even […]
Craters and Rays Mark the Battered Surface of the Moon
The Celestial Sphere By Matthew Johnson Looking up at the moon, one will notice that it has a battered surface, created both by lava flows and quakes and by colliding asteroids and comets. Impacts from asteroids and comets shattered the young moon’s crust, forming deep circular craters surrounded by high-rising crater rims with long ejected […]
Big Changes Ahead for Maple Avenue
The Inland Wetlands Agency (Wetlands) meeting held on Feb. 7 focused primarily on the proposed reconstruction of Maple Avenue, which provides an opportunity to correct storm drainage issues. Roy Seelye, a senior project engineer with Cardinal Engineering, presented the plans for the project at a town information meeting held before the Wetlands meeting. Many residents […]
Estimates Rise on Two Bridge Projects
By Susan MacEachron First Selectman Matt Riiska provided details on the bids for the Mountain Road and River Place bridges at the Board of Finance (BoF) meeting on Feb. 8. River Place bridge will cost approximately $3 million, a 40 percent increase over the initial estimate in September 2020. In a follow up conversation, Riiska […]
P&Z Talks ADUs and Solar
By Susan MacEachron At its meeting on Feb. 8, the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) discussed George Auclair’s proposal to build a new storage garage on land he owns across from his Gulf service station on Greenwoods Road East/Route 44. The plan for the site was approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals on Jan. […]
A Cold Start to the New Year
Norfolk’s January 2022 Weather By Russell Russ The year 2021 was Norfolk’s eighth warmest ever, and December 2021 was its seventh warmest December on record. Winter season snowfall was considerably below normal through December. Would we simply skip winter this year? Or was it just a little slow to appear? Based on January’s weather, it […]
Oh My, Lentil Pie
Cook! For Goodness Sake By Linda Garrettson It’s March—the month that supposedly comes in like a lion and leaves with a lamb’s fresh breath of spring. By March we have grown tired of eating all those yummy, warming root vegetables that sustained us all winter; our taste buds yearn for fresh asparagus, peas and fresh […]
March Viewing
The Celestial Sphere by Matthew Johnson With temperatures hovering between zero and 15 degrees for most of our Norfolk winter days and nights, the warmer weather that springtime brings will be a welcome event. The transition from winter to spring begins on March 20 at 11:33 a.m. with the long-awaited vernal equinox. On the equinox […]
ZBA Approves Storage Garage on Route 44
Eye on Town Government by Susan MacEachron A proposed new storage garage across Route 44 from George’s Norfolk Garage was approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meeting on Jan. 20. George Auclair owns four acres across from his existing garage, and the land is zoned for commercial development. However, the zoning setback requirements […]
