Letters
Diverse Community, Diverse Views For those of us who have gay family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues and classmates (from Gilbert High School), the issue of gay marriage isn’t a theological debate between “God-centered” and “human-centered” principles (“Letters,” April 2012). It’s about fairness and civil rights. I don’t believe that the gay people in our community […]
Annual Town Meeting, Hazardous Waste, and Homeowners Tax Relief
By Sue Dyer The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Flags at Botelle School. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, June 2. Drop-off will be at the Public Works Facility in Falls Village from 9 a.m. to noon. This is an opportunity to get […]
This stone circle stands on public land in Norfolk on an east-facing site. Special thanks to anyone with an explanation of its origins. The picture in last month’s Norfolk Lost & Found showed the weathervane on top of the spire of the Church of Christ Congregational. Photo by Wiley Wood.
Selectmen’s Corner
By Sue Dyer The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Flags at Botelle School. Household Hazardous Waste Day is Saturday, June 2. Drop-off will be at the Public Works Facility in Falls Village from 9 a.m. to noon. This is an opportunity to […]
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 […]
