Selectmen’s Corner
Don’t Forget to File Your Taxes to Receive Stimulus Money By Sue Dyer In order to receive the government’s stimulus money, everyone must file a 2007 tax return. I know not everyone files, but it’s very easy. Contact the selectmen’s office at 542-5829 and we’ll assist you in preparing the 2007 tax form so that […]
View From the Green
Unprecedented Opportunity in Norfolk By Colleen Gundlach It is likely that the 43 families who were living in Norfolk at the time of its incorporation back in 1758 would be very pleased to see our town 250 years later. At their first town meeting, on December 12, 1758, residents had much organizing to do. Today […]
Community News
Pizza Parlor Night On Saturday, March 8 the Church of Christ Congregational youth group will be hosting a “pizza parlor fundraiser” for this years work camp trip. Dine in (with karaoke) or take out. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and children under 12, with a $25 family maximum. Price includes 2 slices […]
March Calendar 2008
TOWN GOVERNMENT Selectmen meet at the Town Hall, first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. Wetlands Agency meets at the Town Hall the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. Planning & Zoning Commission meets the second Tuesday of the month in Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. Board of Finance meets at Town […]
Selectman’s Corner
Appraising the Cost of Antiques and the Town Budget By Sue Dyer Mark your calendars for Friday, May 2, the date our 250th anniversary committee has gotten an antique appraiser to come to Norfolk to appraise our treasures. For $25 an item you can find out if your piece should be prominently displayed at home, […]
Letters: Making Station Place One-Way
One Way Street? Not So Fast, Please As a resident of downtown Norfolk, I have been following the town’s planning for commercial development with considerable interest. I live in a single family residence at the north end of Station Place, where it is still John J. Curtiss Rd., and as it meets Shepard Rd., Emerson […]
Norfolk Then…
If you think you see something out of the ordinary in the first pew of the Catholic Church, you’re right. This is a photograph taken during one of the ski masses held in Norfolk in the 1930’s and worshippers have brought their skis into the sanctuary. Back then Norfolk was known as the […]
View From the Green A Nod to Isabella Eldridge By Lloyd Garrison With the town fast approaching its 250th anniversary, the annual play performed last month in the library by women of the Isabella Eldridge Club (the “Isabellas,”) took on new meaning. As the stage manager in Jack O’Malley’s adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” […]
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BE AWARE, BE HEALTHY The PTO’s first Parent Education Night will be held on Thursday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Media Center at Botelle School. The focus of this evening will be wellness for families and will cover a wide range of topics from diet, to stress, to exercise. The one hour presentation […]
Norfolk Then…
Long before Fed Ex or DHL, this G. Fox & Co. helicopter made a door-to-door delivery to a Norfolk family. The year was 1947, and the helicopter was part of the company’s promotion of its 100th year as a retail fixture in Hartford. At that time, Bob Steele hosted the G. Fox Morning Watch radio […]
