NORFOLK WEATHER
February 2026: Cold and Snowy By Russell Russ The strong winter of 2025-26 continued through February. Deep freeze conditions are defined by periods when the daily high temperature does not exceed 32 degrees for 10 consecutive days. Norfolk was under those conditions for 18 consecutive days between Jan. 23 and Feb. 9. A high of […]
THE CELESTIAL SPHERE
Asteroid Comes to Earth, Artemis Takes to the Sky By Matthew Johnson The last two weeks of March witnessed exceptional astronomical events. At 9 a.m. on March 17, a meteor sped across the Cleveland, Ohio, sky at 45,000 miles per hour before splitting apart in a thunderous boom that shocked and frightened residents. NASA stated […]
BOTELLE BEAT
Building Our School Budget By Kevin D. Case, Superintendent of Schools Each year, Norfolk trusts us with two of its most valuable resources: its children and its tax dollars. Developing the annual school budget is one of the most important responsibilities we have as a school district. I would like to let you know how […]
Botelle Fine Tunes at Mid-Year
By Avice Meehan The Board of Education received a mid-year snapshot of student performance and growth from Botelle Principal Lauren Valentino at its Feb. 24 meeting as part of a packed agenda that also included reports on completion of elevator repairs and praise for the “Blizzard of Fun” program during Weekend in Norfolk. Staff and […]
The Celestial Sphere
March Skies and the Vernal Equinox By Matthew Johnson It has been an unusually cold winter, even by Norfolk standards. The constellations of Orion, and Canis Major, the great hunter and his dog, must have struggled during those frigid nights to rise in the east and traverse the southern meridian to set in the west […]
It’s Only Natural
Planting with Bare Root Stock is a Win-Win-Win By Susannah Wood While March can be cold and forbidding, the month officially kicks off spring and rouses us out of dormancy. Many of us start thinking about our yards and gardens in earnest. The Norfolk Nature Alliance is organizing a year-long effort to promote planting for […]
Greening of Norfolk
Vernonia, the Weed You Need By Jill Chase It’s sad that some of the best garden plants go unknown just because of bad PR. Purely on name alone, how can baneberry, snakeroot or ragwort compete with the angelic sounding meadowsweet, Queen Anne’s lace or foxglove? Some of the best plants have the word “weed” built […]
Norfolk Weather
November and December: Heading into Wintertime By Russell Russ It has been said that November, especially the latter part of the month, can be the predictor for the coming winter. This November had less precipitation than average, but temperatures were very average, so it is difficult to predict much from this November’s conditions. We all […]
Botelle Beat
Botelle Young Authors Take a Magic Tree House Adventure By Lauren Valentino This fall, Botelle’s third- and fourth-grade students completed an extraordinary writing project that brought the magic of literature to life. As part of their first English Language Arts unit, students studied Mary Pope Osborne’s beloved “Magic Tree House” series—with close attention to the […]
It’s Only Natural
You’ve Removed That Invasive Plant: Now What? By Bill Ticineto Over the past two years the Norfolk Conservation Commission (NCC) ran a series of ads in Norfolk Now highlighting the threat of invasive plants. The ads had attention-grabbing headlines, such as “WANTED For Destroying Forests.” The response was great, and mounds of invasive debris began […]
