Getting Ready for the New School Year at Botelle
The Botelle Beat By Virginia Coleman-Prisco As the days get shorter and fall approaches, Botelle Elementary School has been busy preparing for a new school year. Principal Lauren Valentino is excited that “Botelle School is fully staffed and ready to welcome back students and families.” Three new staff members have been hired to replace teachers […]
Keeping Vital Supplies Flowing to Ukraine’s Front Lines
Two men with local ties send equipment where it’s needed most Text By Andra MossPhoto Courtesy of Evan Platt On May 1, barely two months after the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine, Evan Platt boarded a plane in Salt Lake City, Utah, bound for Warsaw. His friend and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]
Babs Perkins Uses Intentional Movement to Produce Ethereal Photograpys
Text by Jude MeadPhoto Courtesy of Babs Perkins Photography has the power to inspire and the ability to invoke an emotional response in people. It is a visual tool that allows photographers to show how they see the world. For professional photographer and writer Barbara “Babs” Perkins, photography is a passion. She uses it to […]
Eve Thew’s Memorial Garden
Photo by Erick Olsen For the last two years, the Green Team of the Norfolk Church of Christ dreamed of planting a pollinator garden on church grounds. When a team member suggested the garden could also serve as a memorial for Eve Thew, everyone agreed that a pollinator garden would be a perfect way to […]
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to Take Place During WIN Weekend
by Jeremy Withnell The long-awaited end to the second phase of the City Meadow project is nearly at hand. According to Molly Ackerly, chair of the City Meadow committee, the finishing touches are being put in place and a ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled to coincide with Weekend in Norfolk on August 7 at 1 […]
Norfolk Church Sends Work Camp Group To Upgrade Homes and Uplift Hearts
Photo by Sarah Foster After a two-year break, Church of Christ Congregational resumed its tradition of Work Camp trips. This year, 16 volunteers loaded into cars and headed back to Camden, N.Y. to resume their partnership with Cluster 13 Ministries. Under the leadership of Pastor Erick Olsen and his wife Tina, seven adults and nine […]
Raptors on the Village Green
On July 15, Eileen Fielding, director of the Sharon Audubon Center, brought a screech owl, an American kestrel and a red-shouldered hawk from the center to the Norfolk village green. Over 60 people came out on a warm summer evening to get a chance to see these beautiful wild creatures close up. The event, part […]
July Brings the Peach Truck
Notes from a Summer Kitchen Text by Marie-Christine PerryPhoto by Danielle Whitaker July brought us to a day I had been waiting for – the arrival of the Peach Truck from Georgia. A couple of years ago, we had heard about the Peach Truck from our friends Hartley and Janet, who waxed lyrical about the […]
Spotted Lanternfly Alert Issued
Lycorma delicatula, better known as Spotted Lanternfly (SLF for short) is an invasive insect that was discovered in southeastern Pennsylvania in 2014 and is currently spreading to nearby states via major travel and trade routes. Because SLFs feed on a wide range of fruit, ornamental and woody trees and some agricultural crops, it has the […]
Jogging Toward a Town Dog Park
Ready to run…unleashed…with friends! Is anyone willing to help this pooch, and others like her? Norfolk volunteers are looking into the possibility of establishing a Norfolk community dog park for the socialization of our canine friends and their owners. The group would welcome additional volunteers and needs assistance with some free legal advice about applying […]
