Letters
Poll Workers Make It Happen Thank you! to all the people at Town Hall, especially Linda Perkins, our town clerk, and our registrars of voters, Phylis Bernard and Dee Perron, who worked so hard to make the election work so smoothly and safely, both for those who voted absentee and those who voted in person. […]
Norfolk Community Food Pantry in Need
Letter to the Editor The number of requests for food from the Norfolk Community Food Pantry has more than doubled in the last five weeks. Although we can’t be sure, we suspect the increase is due to the end of supplemental unemployment benefits. With such increased demand, we are in need of food and dollar […]
CARES Grants for Small Businesses
Letter to the Editor Norfolk’s small businesses and nonprofits affected by the coronavirus pandemic may be eligible for onetime $5,000 grants from the state’s new $50 million CT CARES Small Business Grant Program. Funds will be disbursed by the end of this year. Information about who is eligible is on the Department of Economic and […]
Fiber Optics Mean 40 Years of Financial Burden
I read with great interest Dave Beers’s article about the fiber-optic network for Norfolk. Although previous articles have been informative, this one gave us a peek at potential costs and who the greatest beneficiaries would be. From a project management perspective, I’m a little surprised the NW ConneCT team chose Norfolk as their implementation point. […]
Letters, September 2020
Norfolk Did It Again! When the Weekend in Norfolk committee decided to have virtual events for its fifth annual three-day celebration, it sent out word to the community without having any idea of the response it would get. After all, we were asking for something very different. True, nobody had to be at a certain […]
Letters, August 2020
Norfolk’s Black Lives Matter Protest: Responses to the July Editorial I was reading the July issue of the Norfolk Now and, at first glance, was very pleased to see that the recent Norfolk BLM protests had made the cover. However, once I began the column written by Colleen Gundlach, I was quickly disappointed in her take […]
Making Fiber Optics Affordable
I read with interest about the possible plan to bring high-speed internet via fiber optic transmission lines. However, unless the plan includes no-cost wiring to connect to users’ homes and businesses, many could find themselves priced out. We inquired to Frontier Communications earlier this year about installing high-speed cable to our house. Since the cable […]
Follow the Rules of the Road
Lots more people are out and about on Norfolk roads, and it’s become apparent that many don’t know the rules of the road. People walk on the wrong side, split up parties when cars approach so that people are on both sides of the road, and so on. This can be dangerous and reflects many […]
Thank you!
I want to send a big coronavirus pot-banging, bell-ringing shout-out to all the people who are keeping things going in Norfolk during these scary times. Here’s to the Road Crew and the Sewer District team and the Town Hall brigade; here’s to our great first responders of the ambulance and the fire department; here’s to […]
Open to Change
I read with some dismay the “No NIMBYism Here” letter in the April Issue of Norfolk Now. I had planned to send in my thoughts after seeing the March article about the Mountain Inn’s zoning request for a bakery cafe, but never got around to it. I grew up in Norfolk in the 1950s and […]
