“Third Wall” Has to Wait
By Avice Meehan As K2 Infrastructure ushers in the spring construction season and restarts work on rebuilding two retaining walls on Route 44, hopes sprang up in the hearts of some Norfolk residents that a third, failing wall could be added as a “change order” to the massive $37 million project. Alas, that is not […]
Heard Around Town
Dyer to the Rescue Sue Dyer stepped away from her role as Norfolk’s First Selectman almost a decade ago, but that doesn’t mean she won’t answer a cry for help from Town Hall. Just ask Barbara Gomez, who serves as secretary to the Board of Selectman and worked with Dyer for many years. When the […]
Rom-Com Curling Film Released With Olympics
To get the ice just right, filmmakers tapped Norfolk expertise By Joseph Kelly The underdogs who battle the odds—the washed-up boxer, the outclassed football team, the aging baseball slugger with one last homerun in him—are all Hollywood standbys. Ronald Reagan may be remembered as much for “win one for the Gipper” as he is for […]
Proposed Botelle Budget to See Modest Increase
By Avice Meehan The Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Thursday, March 4, to vote on a proposed $2.658 million budget for the next fiscal year. It would represent an increase of 4.47 percent or $113,665 over the budget for the current year. Superintendent Kevin Case presented the spending plan on Feb. […]
Struggling with Snow and Looking Toward Spring
By Henry Tirrell We are starting to see the glimmer of spring on the horizon, but we certainly aren’t there yet. After a historic storm dumped snow all up and down the East Coast we have all been digging out.Another weekend storm around Feb. 21 dragged the road crew back out to clear the roads […]
Wetlands Agency Chides Town for Significant Tree Removal Without Notice
By Susan MacEachron The matter of significant tree removal along Ashpohtag Road and Doolittle Drive by the Norfolk Department of Public Works (DPW) without prior notice to the Inland Wetlands Agency was addressed by First Selectman Henry Tirrell at the Inland Wetlands Agency meeting on Feb. 2. He also updated agency members on the Connecticut […]
Norfolk Reads Leopold
By Andra Moss On Sunday, March 8, 20 members of the Norfolk community will come together at the Norfolk Library to read selections from visionary conservationist Aldo Leopold’s book, “A Sand County Almanac.” The event is made possible by a grant from the Aldo Leopold Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to carrying forward Leopold’s environmental […]
Winter Weekend In Norfolk
It was a cold and blustery weekend, but that didn’t stop the hardy from coming out on Feb. 21 and 22 for Winter WIN, the weekend for enjoying all things Norfolk in the winter season. The photos below show a story of a town that came together to strut its stuff for the world to […]
Get the PFAS Out of Our Woods
By Susannah Wood The recent ouster of three athletes at the Olympics for using ski/snowboard waxes containing PFAS (forever chemicals) should be a wakeup call to all of us who enjoy winter fun here in the Northwest Corner. If you have old cross-country ski wax hanging around, it may well contain these dangerous substances because […]
