Letters
Sewer Dumpings We feel the article “Sewage Dumping in Local Woods”, published in the November “Norfolk Now” and the Waterbury Republican, has had a negative impact on the W. F. Torrant Co., Inc. and has embarassed the Torrant family members residing in Norfolk. We are asking that your newspaper issue a clarification, and that you […]
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To the Editor of Norfolk Now: I am a member of the Emergency Services Building Committee, writing with my personal response to the November editorial, “Just How Good is That View?” I was surprised by the editor’s question as to why the new Emergency Services Building is sited on the corner of Route 44 and […]
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More Emergency Services I was surprised to note that the Norfolk Now has adopted a new policy for printing articles without a basis of fact. In the column “Just how good is that view,” the statement that a building was hastily approved by the building committee and the Planning and Zoning Commission was totally off […]
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Drivers Need to Slow Down I would like to applaud Rosanna Trestman’s excellent article in “View From The Green” in the recent October issue of Norfolk Now. Not only did she cite our new town successes, but she also drew attention to our terrific parking problem and the many dangers created by this dilemma. Personally, […]
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Parking Map Volunteers Bridgette Rallo’s article (Sept. 2009, Norfolk Now) on Norfolk’s parking problem mentions a diagram showing where on-street parking is—and is not—allowed in the town center. As Rallo correctly notes, this map was the work of members of the Economic Development Commission. However, the map would not have come into being without the detailed survey undertaken by […]
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Tomahawk Chop I read with interest the article on Kim Scharnberg Meets Obama. I congratulate Mr. Scharnberg on his achievements and his talent. The last paragraph caused me concern, however. The writer states that among his current projects is an arrangement of “The Tomahawk Chop” for the Atlanta Braves games. I wonder if Mr. Scharnberg […]
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Cheers to the Pub “Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name…and they’re always glad you came.” We all remember the familiar “Cheers” jingle from the 80s. But for a few of us Norfolkians, the ballad rings true. The news of the Speckled Hen Pub closing its doors was very sad for us. The […]
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Turtle-Bitten Like most locals. I am excited about the spring opening of Infinity Hall as a music venue and restaurant in the old Apple House building. It is interesting to note, however, that this ambitious enterprise, with its proposed 200 concerts a year (and the accompanying traffic, noise, parking problems and who knows what else) which could radically change the character […]
Letters: Making Station Place One-Way
One Way Street? Not So Fast, Please As a resident of downtown Norfolk, I have been following the town’s planning for commercial development with considerable interest. I live in a single family residence at the north end of Station Place, where it is still John J. Curtiss Rd., and as it meets Shepard Rd., Emerson […]
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A Not So Very Merry My yearly Christmas eve sojourn to Connecticut begins in Norfolk where the topography reminds of my home at the North Pole. But lo, on the night of December 24, 2007 as I swooped down from the Berkshires ho-hoing away, my reindeer became lost and disoriented. We cut a […]
