Selectman’s Corner
Blur of 2024, Resolutions for 2025 By Matt Riiska 2024 has been a blur. Many of our planned projects were completed, but too many are still ongoing. We hope that the new national administration coming will have little effect on the many projects we are planning or are currently working on. We will see. The […]
Letters
Leave Botelle School Alone My girls love going to school every single day. They look forward to being with their friends. They look forward to having fun with their teachers. They look forward to gym class, music class, band, art, library and maker space. They love EVERYTHING about their school. I was recently asked why […]
November Real Estate Sales
On Nov. 4, from Daryl O. Byrne to Dziekan & Co Real Estate LLC, 47-49 Blackberry Street for $192,470. On Nov. 4, from Sarah A. Bruso to Megan E. Tashash and Baxter M. Poe, 70 Colebrook Road for $575,000. On Nov. 20, from Theresa Curtiss Harrington Executor for the Estate of James Curtiss to John […]
Know Your Neighbor
Lynn Deasy Comes Home By Michael Cobb How did you come to Norfolk?I was born in Norfolk. Over the years I have lived in a variety of places including Davidson, N.C., Boston, Kenya and numerous towns in Connecticut. In 2005, my husband Tim and I returned to Norfolk and bought the property where I grew […]
Stephen Getz, Active Volunteer
Stephen Jesson Getz of Norfolk passed away from multiple causes on Oct. 7 at Noble Horizons in Salisbury. He was 74 and lived in Norfolk with Peter Coffeen, his partner and husband of 46 years. Steve spent his early life in Oklahoma and Kansas, graduating as valedictorian from Bacon College in Muskogee, Okla., where his […]
William Zibluck, Outdoor Enthusiast
William (Bill) Zibluk, 71, passed away on Nov. 4 at his home in Norfolk. Born on Sept. 21, 1953, Bill was a lifelong enthusiast of the outdoors, which was reflected in both his personal hobbies and his work. He attended Seymour High School followed by Paul Smith College, where he further cultivated his love for […]
Community News
Wayne Jenkins to Exhibit Paintings at Library A self-taught oil painter of landscape and wildlife, Wayne Jenkins returns to the Norfolk Library with an exhibition of paintings that reflect his love of the natural world. Beginning with hunting and fishing as a young man and later raising cattle, he became fascinated by forms and colors found […]
Norfolk Then…
This 1920s postcard shows Memorial Green just after the War Memorial, designed by Alfredo Taylor, was built. It was Taylor’s wife Minna who first proposed that a memorial “heroes grove” be planted on the small lot of land known as the Triangle opposite the Catholic Church. The lot had been left empty with the demolition […]
Know your neighbor
Bill, Jill and Monty By Michael Cobb How did you come to Norfolk? We decided to flee Los Angeles in 1994. We were tired of fires, mudslides, earthquakes and crime. We wanted to be near a major city but not living in it. After six years of searching, we settled on Ridgefield, Conn., close to […]
Selectman’s Corner
It’s (F)all about the trees in norfolk By Matt Riiska Our Public Works Department is finishing their summer work, and it has been a busy summer. We recently worked on Doolittle Drive repairing roadside drainage, removing old stumps that were left in place years ago and removing many dead ash and deteriorating pines and maples. […]
