Milestones—Robert Bachman Dies at 80
Robert Bachman, who worked for 30 years at the Norfolk Post Office and ran a successful greenhouse business on Winchester Rd., died on April 22 at the age of 80. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he is particularly remembered for having started and funded the Norfolk tradition of handing out flags at the Memorial […]
On Casting the First Stone
By Colleen Gundlach In my roughly nine years of putting pen to paper for Norfolk Now, I have expounded often on the diversity of the people of this town, and our capacity to interact with each other despite our differences. We are a community that works together to keep Norfolk a vibrant, caring place to […]
Housing Rehab Loan Program is in The Works
By Sue Dyer The Town of Norfolk is part of a regional application to create a Regional Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program. If funded, the program could provide no-interest loans to income eligible property owners of existing homes. These loans would not need to be repaid until the house is sold, transferred or refinanced. Eligible rehabilitation […]
A Marriage Long in the Making
It could be argued that as pertains to civil rights, marriage equality has moved at Mach speed over the past eight years. It was in 2004 that Massachusetts became the first state to offer gay marriage licenses. In the ensuing years, six other states have followed suit, as has the District of Columbia. There are […]
Keeping Kids Out of Trouble
Last month, in her View from the Green, Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo asked, “Are the kids all right?.” Clearly, some of them are not. This leads to the question of what we as a community can do to help raise our kids to be ‘all right’. One of the articles about the men who started the […]
Are the Kids All Right?
View from the Green By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo At risk of sounding like an elderly person at the ripe old age of 36, I have to ask the question, “Are the kids today all right?” When I think back to my teenage years, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the most reckless thing anyone […]
Milestones
Born: A son, Robertson Whitworth, to Lisa and John Bazzano, on December 27 at 4:40 p.m., weighing in at 9 pounds, 9 ounces. Robertson is little brother to Stephen, Colin, J.P. and Sophia Bazzano. Died – Gordon Francis Christinat on January 18, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday. He is survived by his wife, two […]
Truth or Fiction?
Letter to the Editor Did you hear that a little girl died falling off the children’s train set behind the Norfolk Library? Or that the train set was delivered via the old railroad tracks that go under Route 44? There is a word that defines such “legends”. The word is fabulate, […]
Taxes, Garbage and Rebates
The Hazardous Household Collection day will be Saturday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Torrington Waste Water Treatment Plant on Bogue Road. To sign up, please contact the Selectmen’s Office at 860-542-5829. This is great time to get rid of those items that cannot be thrown into the waste stream. E-Collection […]
Rolling Out the Welcome Mat
By Colleen Gundlach This past summer has been an unprecedented one for Norfolk in terms of vitality, excitement and community involvement. The Artswave! event created a groundswell of community pride, and opened the town’s borders to visitors who may never have experienced the scenic beauty nor been cognizant of the cultural vistas Norfolk has to […]
