New Leadership For Norfolk Now
Veronica Burns chosen to head board of directors By Lloyd Garrison Norfolk Now’s 15-person board of directors has voted unanimously to elevate Veronica Burns to president of the board. She replaces Lloyd Garrison, who co-founded the paper with Rosanna Trestman five years ago. Burns is no stranger to community service. Since retiring as a Time […]
A Bridge to Somewhere
In September, after 480 days of continuous operation, the traffic lights swaying above bridge number 2309, where Route 44 crosses Norfolk Brook, switched to blinking red. Over the following days, the new bridge and approaches were paved. Then both lanes were opened and the traffic lights went dark and were removed. Recalling backups that occasionally […]
Ambulance Building Delayed
At the Farmers Market on October 11, several townsfolk were heard to comment that construction still has not begun on the ambulance building planned for the corner of Shepard Road and Route 44. This allowed the popular bi-weekly Farmers Market to continue at that site all summer and into the fall. The reason for the […]
The Economics of Staying Warm
Norfolk Faces Huge Rise In Heating Oil By Bob Bumcrot For the coming season Norfolk residents face an unprecedented increase in the price of heating oil. Last year at this time typical local prepaid contracts cost about $2.60 a gallon; they are now about $4.60, a 77 percent rise. A thousand gallon prepaid order this […]
Getting Unstuck
Norfolk Rescue Teams Train in Ropes Rescue By Jonathan Barbagallo Does the thought of hanging by a rope on the side of a 75 foot cliff scare you? Well you can rest easy knowing that members of the Norfolk Fire Department and the Lions Club Ambulance have learned new methods of coming to your rescue. […]
Norfolk Real Estate Doldrums
By Sally Quale “Skittish; Very, very flat; Not bad – just not there; Not a good picture” and “In a word—terrible.” Not since the early 1990’s have local agents used such gloomy terms to describe the health of the Norfolk real estate market. By the mid to late 1990’s the market had taken off again, […]
New Principal at Botelle
By Ejay Lockwood In the search for a new Botelle School principal, the Norfolk Board of Education weighed numerous questions in evaluating candidates. Who can work well with school faculty? Who can lead the school through the next series of challenges? Who is a good listener? Perhaps most importantly, who has a genuine concern for […]
And The Winner Is…
The Norfolk Community Association Gains Recognition for its Good Works Around Town. By Linda Childs How did the Norfolk directional sign that usually stands on the corner of the Town Green wind up on a float in the 250 th anniversary parade? With many spectators along the parade route questioning the authenticity of its historic hand-painted […]
A New Life for Old Friends
Annual book sale draws a crowd By Rosanna Trestman The books, thousands of them, underwent a long, long journey before landing in the hands of new readers. Once again the Norfolk Library Associates, their families, friends, and neighbors came together to create the yearly book sale to benefit the Norfolk Library. From the bookshelves and […]
A Compatible Division of Labor
Meadowbrook Duo Creates a Fragment of Arcadia By Owen Oxley It began in mid-May. Meadowbrook residents Robert Bachman and Frederick Currier decided to create a simple garden of vegetables and flowers on a small portion of lawn that fronts on a winding tributary of the Blackberry River and overlooks the ‘great meadow.’ Today that plot […]
