Welcome to Norfolk, Connecticut

A roomful of residents quickly passed four items at last Monday town meeting. Only a handful of votes were cast against making Haystack Woods Road a public thoroughfare maintained by the town.

A new farmers market, Northwest Farm to Fork, is set to open May 20 on the border of Norfolk. It will be held the third Wednesday of each month, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Norbrook Farm Brewery.

The town crew is expected to do final landscaping around the popular Big Green Slide at Botelle School next week, once again opening the 60-foot slide to area children.

Norfolk Artists and Friends (NAF) has a new leader, sculptor Jon Riedeman, and he wants to “shake things up” to instill new energy in an organization he believes “is in a rut.”

Next Monday’s town meeting, planned for 7:00 p.m. at Botelle School has taken on new urgency as state legislators weigh the future of Torrington’s waste facility. 

Starting next week, the selectmen’s office will be closed on Fridays. Office hours will be extended until 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays.

The Northwest Conservation District, which serves Norfolk and 33 other towns in Northwest Connecticut, will again hold its annual Earth Day Plant Sale on Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26.

A Special Town Meeting was held on Monday, April 6, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at Botelle Elementary School to consider and act on a resolution to appropriate funding for the Mountain Road Bridge replacement and purchase of a new plow truck, accept Haystack Woods Road as a public roadway and designate a Town Resource Recovery Authority. Read more

Notice is hereby given that I failed to receive within the time limited in Section 9-391 of the General Statutes the certifications of names of any persons as party-selected candidates for the Republican Party in the Town of Norfolk for the 5th Congressional District Convention. Read more.

Certified lists of party-selected candidates for the Democratic Party and Republican Party in the Town of Norfolk for participation as Delegates to the State Conventions have been filed with the Town Clerk. Read more.

In keeping with State and Federal regulations on records retention and disposal, school officials plan to destroy the records of Special Education and 504 students who left or graduated from Regional School District No. 7, Barkhamsted Elementary School, Colebrook Consolidated School, Botelle School in Norfolk or Hartland School on or before June 30, 2019 or who were born before July 1, 2001. Read more.

Starting April 6, 2026, Mountain Road will be closed to through traffic in order for construction to begin on the Mountain Road bridge. The road will be closed from the ballfields to Westside Road. It is anticipated that work should be completed by December.