Community News
Botelle PTO Election Day Bake Sale The Botelle PTO will be holding their annual Election Day bake sale at Town Hall on Tuesday, November 3 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Come vote early and pick up some homemade pies, fresh baked cookies and many more yummy treats. The Guild Revisited The second annual Guild […]
View From The Green
Which Do You Want First? By Rosanna Trestman First the good news: Suddenly, Norfolk, CT has become both a tourist target and a destination for locals looking for a night out. The bad news: ditto. Just as we despaired that downtown’s storefronts would never fill and pined for some economic get up and go, along […]
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 Norfolk Pub). Next to Harold’s fedora, a bottle of 7up sits on a bench in the lower right […]
Letters
Parking Map Volunteers Bridgette Rallo’s article (Sept. 2009, Norfolk Now) on Norfolk’s parking problem mentions a diagram showing where on-street parking is—and is not—allowed in the town center. As Rallo correctly notes, this map was the work of members of the Economic Development Commission. However, the map would not have come into being without the detailed survey undertaken by […]
Community News
An Apple a Day The Norfolk Lions Club will hold its annual Harvest Sale on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 8 a.m. till noon at Station Place. Apples, cider, pumpkins, baked goods and other harvest treats will be available. Proceeds from the sale will support the Norfolk Volunteer Ambulance and other Lions Club projects. Harvest Fair […]
Norfolk Then…
Before centralizations, the Norfolk district school system included 11 grammar schools, each managed by a local school committee. Schoolhouses were simple one-room structures with a wood stove provoking heat. The North Middle School still stands at the corner of Ashpohtag and Bald Mountain Roads. The district schools served a varying number of children, and teachers were usually […]
View From the Green
A Not-So-Wicked Web We Weave By Veronica Burns Many articles have been written about the demise of the printed word. Is there irony in this? Here you are reading the printed word. At Norfolk Now the editors believe the printed word is alive and well, as this little paper moves into its seventh year of […]
Community News
The Norfolk Farmers Market is on the move Beginning Saturday, September 5 until the end of the season in October, the Farmers Market will be held on the lawn in front of the Town Hall on Maple Avenue. It will be the same great food, same one-of- a-kind arts and crafts and the same great […]
Selectmen’s Corner
Summers Reminders By Sue Dyer Please be reminded that dog licenses, Tobey Pond parking permits and transfer station stickers are available in the Town Clerk’s office. If transfer station stickers are not purchased by Saturday, August 1 the price doubles from $35 to $70, so please get your stickers early. July begins our new fiscal […]
Milestones
Born: Twins, McKenzie Lynn Bannerman, 5 lbs. 15 oz., and Merrick Christopher Bannerman, 6 lbs. 2 oz., born on May 12 at Sharon Hospital to Matthew and Jessica Bannerman of Norfolk. Died: Katherine Menser Whalen, 83, of Shepard Road died on June 10. She was the wife of the late Malachi Whalen, Jr., and owned […]
