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,” […]
Welcome to Norfolk Community News
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 […]
February Calendar 2008
TOWN GOVERNMENT Selectmen meet first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall. Wetlands Agency meets the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall. Planning & Zoning meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall. Board of Finance meets at Town […]
Letters
A Not So Very Merry My yearly Christmas eve sojourn to Connecticut begins in Norfolk where the topography reminds of my home at the North Pole. But lo, on the night of December 24, 2007 as I swooped down from the Berkshires ho-hoing away, my reindeer became lost and disoriented. We cut a […]
In Memoriam: Kathryn Noles
Kathryn Noles was one of Norfolk Now’s earliest volunteers and its longtime business manager. Shortly after being diagnosed with cancer in early 2005, she moved to Seattle in 2006 to be closer to her daughter, Rebekah, and her family. She died in Seattle on Dec. 15 at age 61. She stayed in touch with her […]
Norfolk Lost & Found
There are quite a few people in Norfolk who forgo sleep, an free time in March, while they slave to produce liquid gold. Can you say for sure which one of them owns this sugar shack?
