Letters
Congratulations to Norfolk Now for its 2023! symposium. The positive energy in the room was heartening. I took away three specific initiatives for the future: fiber optics (Kim Maxwell), improve the school (Sally Carr and Ann DeCerbo), and a trails network (West Lowe and Marie Isabelle). Coincidentally, as president of the Norfolk Land Trust I […]
Exercise Schedule For Norfolk Senior Citizens The Town of Norfolk Recreation Committee sponsors the following free activities for its senior citizens: Senior Yoga every Tuesday morning at 8:45, Church of Christ Chapel dining room and Senior Exercise every Tuesday morning at 11:00, Meadowbrook Community Room. Please come! Breakfast with Santa Claus The Norfolk Volunteer Fire […]
Norfolk Then
Dr. Richard Barstow practiced medicine for fifty years in Norfolk, opening his office overlooking the village green in 1936. Active in the educational, political, and cultural life of the town, Dr. Barstow served as chairman of the Norfolk committee for a regional high school at a time when Norfolk was grappling with regionalization. Planning for […]
The Countdown is on For NORFOLK 2023!
Future Planning Event Marks Norfolk Now’s Tenth Anniversary By Lloyd Garrison Only a few days remain before Saturday, Oct. 5, when Norfolk Now hopes to fill Infinity Hall for a forum on the future. Come Saturday, the doors will open at 9:30 for an event that begins at 10 a.m., and ends at noon. It […]
Selectmen’s Corner
Flu Shots And Hazardous Waste By Sue Dyer Applications for fuel assistance are currently available to those families that qualify. Please contact the Selectmen’s Office, 860-542-5829, for the necessary forms. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, October 12th at the Torrington Waste Water Treatment Plant on Bogue Road from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Please contact the […]
Milestones
Died: Catherine “Cay” P. Fields, at her daughter’s home in Carmel, NY, on July 11. She was a long-time resident of Norfolk, where her husband Harold Fields was born and raised. She was at various times a school board member, active in Boy and Girl Scouting, a realtor with her own Norfolk agency, President of […]
Community News
Learn CPR and First Aid The Norfolk Lions Club Ambulance is offering CPR and First Aid training, free for Norfolk residents, at the ambulance building, 7 Shepard Road. October 2, 6-9 p.m.: Adult, Child, Infant CPR/AED October 3, 6-9:30 p.m.: Basic First Aid. Questions or to register: Sandy Evans, 860-542-5200 or ase6@att.net. NORFOLK 2023! October […]
Letters
Why Bond Everything At Once? After reading the story in September’s Norfolk Now “…Pension Plan Underfunded by $1 Million,” I’m hearing a recurring question. Given the state of Norfolk’s finances, and other issues, why would a single bond be used to cover three undertakings with widely disparate levels of importance, i.e., the pension underfunding, the […]
Norfolk Then
With a new firehouse proposed for Norfolk, here’s a look back at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Shepard Road firehouse on June 6, 1970. By then the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department had outgrown its original quarters in the Royal Arcanum Building, built in 1904 on Station Place. Pictured in this photograph from left to right […]
Guest Editorial
No Country For Young Men / By Christopher Sinclair Upon graduating from college and returning to Norfolk this past May I experienced several sensations which I often experience upon returning to Norfolk, my home. The remedial effects of the exceptionally clean air, hellos from people whom I’ve known far longer than I can recall, a […]
