Art, Nature and Fun at Weekend in Norfolk
By Colleen Gundlach This will be the third year of the annual phenomenon known as Weekend in Norfolk (WIN), and a look at this year’s schedule of events reveals several new and exciting activities planned, one of which involves star gazing, moon watching and an all-nighter when local astronomer Matthew Johnson conducts Astronomy Night at […]
Surviving Nazi Occupation of Amsterdam
Norfolk’s Ted Veling to Present Historical Discussion in Colebrook On Friday, July 13, the Colebrook Historical Society will host a talk by Norfolk’s Ted Veling, who will discuss his life during World War II in the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Veling was a nine-year-old boy living happily in a commuter city near Amsterdam when […]
Remembering Duncan Denny
Lifetime Norfolk resident Duncan Denny passed away at his home on June 19, 2018. He was born June 20, 1927, in New Rochelle, N.Y., to Dorothy Duncan and Cary Freeman Denny. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ayreslea Rowland Denny; children Bea Tirrell (Charlie), Deirdre Denny, and Rowland Denny (Robin); and grandchildren […]
River Place Bridge to Be Replaced
First Selectman Matthew Riiska announced that the Town of Norfolk is contemplating a project to replace the River Place Bridge over the Blackberry River. The bridge replacement project would receive federal funds under the Federal Local Bridge Program, which is administered by the Connecticut Department of Transportation. These funds would cover 80 percent of the […]
Pickleball Is a Serious Sport, Really
Norfolk Curling Club Offers a Chance to Learn or Spectate By David Beers In 1965, Congressman Joel Pritchard and a friend went outside to play badminton on the badminton court in his Bainbridge, Wash. Backyard. They could not find the badminton equipment and improvised with ping pong rackets and a wiffle ball, and pickleball […]
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Starts an Event-Filled Six-Week Run
By Wiley Wood They start arriving on July 1, young musicians, most of them in graduate programs in the United States, but originally from four continents, coming to Norfolk to learn, rehearse and perform (or compose) chamber music with members of the faculty of the Yale School of Music and a distinguished cast of […]
Sewer District Votes to Proceed With Repairs
Assumes 40-year loan By Wiley Wood On Wednesday, May 16, members of the Norfolk Sewer District voted unanimously to embark on a $4.2 million renovation of the sewer collection system in the center of town, agreeing to assume a collective debt that will cost the district $100,000 per year for the next 40 years. […]
Online Survey for 2019 Town Plan
The Town of Norfolk is conducting an online survey to get input from Norfolk residents on its new town plan (Plan of Conservation and Development). The last plan was completed in 2009, and a state mandate requires municipalities to produce a new one every ten years. The survey provides an opportunity for residents to identify […]
Repairs to Water Main Stretch to Three Days
Repairs to a leaking water main next to Route 44 in downtown Norfolk began on Tuesday, May 15, when a crew from John J. Brennan Construction in Shelton, Conn. tore up the side of the road just east of Grant Street. Discovering that the pipe was under the sidewalk, they came back the next day […]
Celebrating a Housing Project’s Completion
The Foundation for Norfolk Living will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the six new rental units recently created at its Shepard Road properties and the six more recently renovated on Greenwoods Road East. This project is the fruit of many years’ labor and was supported by a sizable grant from the State of Connecticut. […]
