Correction The June/July edition of Norfolk Now contained several errors regarding the death announcement of Rosemary Shiras. She passed away on June 6 and four days shy of the 58th, not 50th, anniversary of her marriage with Peter Shiras. We have since learned that she was a resident of Norfolk for 16 winters and tutored […]
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 […]
Norfolk’s Weather for June and July
June: Wet and Wild July: Fairly typical By Russell Russ A summary of June and July weather as recorded at Norfolk’s National Weather Observer Station, Norfolk 2 SW, by the Great Mountain Forest Corporation. JUNE: The month's high temperature of 92 degrees was observed on June 10. The low temperature of 45 degrees was observed […]
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 […]
Susie Crofut Exhibit Norfolk Library
By Sally Quale The startling sight of a chicken house—with wheels and resident chickens—on the front lawn of the library should entice at least a few more persons inside for the opening reception and exhibition of Susie Crofut’s watercolors that will take place on Sunday, September 7 from 4 – 6 p.m. Crofut last exhibited […]
