Community News
Norfolk Land Trust Trail Race and Trail Work Day October 4, 9:30 a.m., 5K Trail Race. Come run or walk through beautiful Barbour Woods, meet at Loversí Lane Trailhead, prizes to the top three male and female runners. October 18, Trail Work Day, meet at 10 Station Place at 9 a.m. for coffee, sign-in. Volunteers […]
Norfolk Then . . .
The year is 1945, and young Augustus Curtiss, known as Gus, is getting a haircut. It is close quarters in Harold Colwell’s barber shop tucked away in a small room in the Royal Arcanum building (now the Wood Creek Bar & Grill). Next to Harold’s fedora, a bottle of 7-up sits on a bench in […]
View From the Green
Do We Have The Cart Before The Horse? By Colleen Gundlach As so often happens in a small town, there are different viewpoints and outlooks, even among friends. Such is the case with the topic of this View. Even among the editors of Norfolk Now, there is friendly disparity about this issue. The opinions I […]
Norfolk Then…
Norfolk’s first consolidated school was the Center School, built in 1914. Designed by Ehrick Rossiter, architect of the Music Shed and several school buildings on the Hotchkiss campus, Center School accommodated children in kindergarten through 8th grade. It had eight spacious classrooms, a teachers’ room, lavatories, a book room and a large playroom. The school […]
Letters
Business Options With Mizza’s closed and the Corner Store a question mark, surely Norfolk needs to revisit the future desires expressed in last year’s 2023! symposium. These basically were for the familiar Our Town scenario – a town of every social class and full of small retail businesses – flowers, candy, books. Sweet… Now it […]
Selectmen’s Corner
Field cards and winter farmers market By Sue Dyer The Town of Norfolk no longer has the field cards from the assessor’s office with Vision. You can now access the assessor’s records by going to norfolkct.org under “Assessor” and following the instructions. At their last meeting, the Board of Selectmen authorized the use of the […]
Selectmen’s Corner
By Sue Dyer There will be a Republican Primary on Tuesday, August 12 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Norfolk Town Hall. The State of Connecticut will be reclaiming and chip sealing Route 272 from Memorial Green to the Massachusetts State Line beginning the week of August 4. The Town will be finishing […]
Community News
Democrats To Host Community Picnic The Norfolk Democratic Town Committee will host a community summer picnic from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 at the Norfolk Curling Club. Democratic candidates for state offices will be available to meet with constituents at the event. Tickets, which are $15 for adults and $8 for children, […]
Norfolk Then…
Tennis at Town Hall? The building we know as Town Hall was originally the Eldridge Gymnasium, built in 1892. Located within easy walking distance of hotels and boarding houses in Norfolk at the turn of the last century, the Gymnasium was a popular gathering place for both residents and visitors. People played croquet on the […]
View From the Green
A Void That Can’t Be Filled By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo As impossible as it was to imagine anything, even cancer, having its way with Lloyd Garrison, it did. His indomitable spirit fought that beast for longer than most could. A true fighter, Lloyd attended Norfolk Now story conferences and executive editor meetings right up until […]
