Some Recycling News and a Few Reminders
Starting May 1, the Town will begin accepting all plastic food and beverage containers numbering one through seven. Until now the only plastic containers we could accept were numbers one and two. All containers must be under three gallons. Here is a quick reminder of what you can recycle at the Transfer Station. All newspapers […]
Campfire Cooking Workshop Held
A Camp Fire Cooking workshop was held on Saturday, April 24 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Shelter on Golf Drive. Joe Brien of Lost Arts Workshops taught participants to make stew in a Dutch oven, broil meat over hot coals, boil water with hot rocks, and to bake biscuits and cookies in a […]
A Striped Menace Threatens Our Ponds and Lakes
By Star Childs As summer approaches and thoughts turn to boating on freshwater lakes and rivers, everyone must be vigilant of a new ecological threat to our bodies of water. Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, have made their way from the distant Black and Caspian Seas of Eurasia and Russia to our Great Lakes and other […]
Botelle’s Therapy Dog Program helps students read
A Student’s Best Friend By Jill Hall On Thursday mornings, you will find Maryann Beauchene spending time at Botelle School, not in her usual role as the school’s Media Specialist, but instead, with two special four-legged friends, Remy and Buddy. These loving standard poodles are not just her pets, they are Certified Reading Therapy Dogs. […]
Trooper Greg Naylor Becomes a Spokes-Person
Mountain bike patrolling comes to Norfolk By Veronica Burns State Trooper Greg Naylor assures us he will not be doing any wheelies on his recently acquired mountain bike, a 27-speed Stumpjumper. “No no,” he emphasizes, “we tell kids all the time not to do that.” Naylor will also be sure to wear a helmet when […]
A Sense of Commitment and a Sense of Destiny
Gwen Melvin and Banjie Getsinger Nicholas at the Norfolk Library by Veronica Burns The works of two artists will be on display during the May art exhibit at the Norfolk Library. Gwen Melvin recalls that she began to draw horses when she was a child growing up in Chicago. “I was crazy about horses,” she […]
Land Use Decisions at the Local Level
The role of a land trust By Susannah Wood Residents in Norfolk voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting open space and maintaining the rural character of our town during the meetings to create a plan of conservation and development. It was also suggested in that document that such land protection be under the aegis of […]
Been Good to Know You
There are volunteers, and then there are the Pams By Lloyd Garrison Whether you know them or not, you are going to miss Dorothy and Bob Pam, who are about to leave town to be closer to their daughter and two grandchildren in Amherst, Mass. They are relative newcomers, having resided here only seven years. […]
Notes from recent Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance Meetings
Eye on Town Government By Bridgette L. Rallo The hottest topic in Norfolk this month is money: where it’s coming from and where it’s going. Residents will probably see a tax increase next year and no one on either the Board of Selectmen (BOS) or the Board of Finance (BOF) can figure out a way […]
Libby Borden is Norfolk’s Volunteer of the Year
Receives Norfolk Community Service Award By Colleen Gundlach Elizabeth (Libby) Borden loves Norfolk. It is apparent in her face when she talks about the town and the townspeople, and it is even more evident in her tireless devotion to making Norfolk all it can be. It’s that devotion, coupled with a drive to make the […]
