Renewal of Resident Trooper Contract Comes Up for Town Vote
Cost Will Depend on Results of Legislative Session By Wiley Wood Voters will face a choice at Norfolk’s town meeting on May 11 whether to renew the resident trooper contract for another two years. Under Governor Malloy’s proposed budget, the state will no longer subsidize 30 percent of the cost as in past years. If […]
Regionalization Plan Update
State Board of Education Agrees to Recommend a 10-Year Waiver By Ruth Melville The plan to create a new regional school district for Norfolk and Colebrook got over a major obstacle on the road to referendum when the State Board of Education, rejecting the recommendation of a subcommittee, agreed to support the Regional School Study Committee’s […]
Board of Finance Aims at Tax Decrease
Town Budget Will Wait on State Decisions By Wiley Wood At a budget meeting of Norfolk’s Board of Finance, Chairman Michael Sconyers reviewed the town’s spending projections for 2015-2016, snipping away a few thousand here and a few thousand there, in the end reducing the selectmen’s proposal by $70,000. “I’m desperate to do a tax […]
Immaculate Conception Parish Celebrates Historic Anniversaries
Photo by Bruce Frisch Immaculate Conception Parish began a year of celebration with a special liturgy December 8, 2014, marking the 125th anniversary of Immaculate Conception Church as a parish. Plans are in place for a community event on August 15. Docents will be on hand to introduce friends and neighbors to the beauty and […]
Foundation for Norfolk Living Gets Big Affordable Housing Grant
New Units May Be Ready Next Spring By Nina Ritson The Foundation for Norfolk Living has been working and planning for several years to secure space in which to provide affordable housing in Norfolk. On March 26, their efforts received a huge boost when Governor Malloy and the Connecticut Department of Housing (DOH) announced funding […]
BNE Obtains $15 Million to Build Two Wind Turbines in Colebrook
By Kurt Steele The next chapter in the long-running saga of BNE Energy’s efforts to build commercial wind turbines in Colebrook is being written. BNE recently obtained just under $15 million of financing through an affiliate to construct two turbines on Flagg Hill Road, after a long-fought battle by local residents to stop construction there […]
Selectmen’s Budget Rises 3.5 Percent
By Wiley Wood With the town’s annual budget hearing scheduled for late April, the Board of Finance invited First Selectman Sue Dyer to present a preliminary town budget at its March 17 meeting. The board’s chairman, Michael Sconyers, opened the proceedings with cautionary words about budget increases. Dyer’s budget proposal came in $130,000 above last […]
Connecticut State Budget Has Implications for Small Towns
Norfolk Selectmen and Board of Finance Looking at Proposed Changes By Janet Gokay The Connecticut papers have been awash lately with news of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years. When he unveiled his budget before the state legislature on February 18, he announced that it “is filled with tough […]
Music Shed to Get New Cupola
On a sweltering summer night, the Music Shed can feel like a steam bath. The acoustics may be perfect, the performers electrifying and the architecture deeply satisfying, but the place can be just too darn hot. The building originally had a cupola that, like a vent at the apex of a tepee, allowed hot air […]
Blocked Sewer Pipe at Station Place
A crew working at Station Place on March 23 to remove a chunk of ice blocking the lateral sewer pipe to the old Corner Store. They had first tried accessing the blockage from the building and through the manhole cover, but finally had to dig up the road to reach the blockage. This has been […]
