It’s All About the Data
Consultant takes hard look at Norfolk market area By Wiley Wood No one opens a business these days—no bank will lend money to start a business—without taking a hard look at the existing demand. “The days of ‘build it and they will come’ are long gone,” says Michael Goman. Which is where the firm of […]
Norfolk Church Receives Grant
The Congregational Church of Christ in Norfolk has received a $1,500 grant from the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut. The money will go into a discretionary fund, according to the Rev. Erick Olsen, the church’s pastor, and be used to restock the shelves of the Norfolk Food Pantry, housed in Battell Chapel. The grant will […]
Regionalization Effort Inches Forward
By Wiley Wood The Norfolk-Colebrook Regional Study Group met on January 15 to bring the neighboring towns a little closer to consolidating their primary schools under one roof, possibly as early as the fall of 2016. The process, endorsed by town referendums in the fall of 2012, is nearing the decision point. The study group’s […]
New Economic Development Consultants Named
Part of a Two-Year State Grant to Improve Northwest Corner Town Centers By Ruth Melville At the January meeting of Norfolk’s Economic Development Commission (EDC), Jocelyn Ayer, of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments (NHCOG), introduced the development consultants her council recently hired to consult with Norfolk, and seven other towns in this part of […]
Board of Finance Hears Fire Department Funding Request
Sconyers Calls for More Regional Coordination By Wiley Wood On January 13, at a regular meeting of the Board of Finance, the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department (NVFD) presented a request for $125,000 to replace an aging utility truck. Michael Sconyers, chairman of the Board of Finance, expressed his unwillingness to raise taxes or borrow money […]
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Fire Department Donation Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department raised and donated $416 for the Laverne Barbagallo Memorial Fund at the Norfolk Children’s Foundation through their second annual Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirt campaign back in October. Meadowbrook Grant A grant in the amount of $1,000 was received by the Norfolk Senior Housing Corporation (aka Meadowbrook) in December […]
Reading for a Trip to World Finals
Botelle Students Participate in Kids’ Lit Quiz As this issue of Norfolk Now goes to print, fifth and sixth grade students at Botelle School are reading their hearts out in preparation for The Kids’ Lit Quiz (KLQ) United States Finals on Friday, January 30 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). […]
Real Estate Transactions
October–December 2014 On October 3, 2014, from Estate of Steven O. Correy to Gardner M. & Diana V. Mundy: 13.1 acres on Bruey Rd., for $10,000. On October 3, 2014, from Paul Correy et al. to Gardner M. & Diana V. Mundy: 13.1 acres on Bruey Rd., for $40,000. On October 10, 2014, from Helen […]
Colebrook Store Reopens
By Christopher Sinclair Prior to the shuttering of the Colebrook Store in 2007, it “had been the oldest continuously operated general store in the state of Connecticut, encompassing a span stretching from 1812 until 2007, 195 years,” according to the Colebrook Historical Society website. The store has seen countless residents pass through its doors over […]
The Lights Go Out at Great Impressions
Tenant Sought for Vacated Hair Salon By Colleen Gundlach With the closing last month of Norfolk’s only hair salon, Great Impressions, the south corner of Station Place at Route 44 looks dark. But, in the words of an old Chinese proverb, “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” Martha Pallone, owner of […]
