Stocking Up on Treats for the Halloween Hordes

The Norfolk community invites its trick-or-treaters to Maple Avenue on the afternoon and evening of Halloween, Tuesday, Oct. 31. The Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department will shut the street to through-traffic […]

First Selectman Contest Headlines November Election

  By Wiley Wood This year’s municipal elections on November 7 will send a new first selectman to Town Hall. Susan Dyer, who has been Norfolk’s chief elected official for […]

Blackberry Street Saved From Buckling

Road crews worked all of September to repair Blackberry Street, building a new retaining wall to shore up the slumping hillside. “The guard rails were tilting and the road was […]

Innovation in the Service of Convenience

Store allows night-time access to key card holders   By Christopher Sinclair It is difficult to envision a 7-Eleven, Cumberland Farms, or other 24-hour store popping up in Norfolk’s downtown […]

Give Your Pet’s Toilette a Boost

By Susannah Wood Rover getting a bit whiffy? Tired of your aching back as you wrestle him in the bathtub? Pet Valu at the Winsted Stop and Shop plaza has […]

Got Water?

Planning council looks at state’s water resources and needs   By Wiley Wood A draft of the Connecticut State Water Plan was presented on Sept. 14 to a gathering of […]

Ain’t She Sweet!

The Classic Car Show, which is now in its fifth year, drew 72 entrants. The winner in the overall category, which is chosen by popular acclaim, was the mile-long, sky […]

Winsted Paper Folds, Merges With Lakeville Journal

News coverage for Norfolk to continue uninterrupted   By Colleen Gundlach Before Lloyd Garrison and Rosanna Trestman breathed life into Norfolk Now 14 years ago, local news was circulated by […]

View From the Green

Change: A Challenge And an Opportunity   By Ruth Melville Norfolk Now is losing one of its longest-serving and most highly valued editors. After 10 years as an executive editor […]

Earth Moving Equipment Enters City Meadow

An excavator was pawing at the ground on the morning of Wednesday, August 16, in the hollow below Station Place, and a line of erosion barriers stretched along the surrounding […]