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A lightly attended public hearing held Monday to present a proposed $9,426,846 budget for 2026-2027 drew no comment from the public.

The town will receive a $585,000 insurance settlement that will close out a trucking firm’s liability for damages incurred when its truck, carrying 8,200 of gasoline, overturned on Route 44 in November 2022.

In the second of a three-part series of community conversations, the Board of Education, faculty and members of the Norfolk community explored the key values that inform the operation of the school.

A community meeting at Infinity Hall Thursday, May 14, at 6:00 p.m. will discuss the venue’s future, its role in the local economy and the possibility of reopening its restaurant.

The Battell Arts Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications.from residents of Norfolk or Colebrook in grades 4 through 12.

The Planning and Zoning Commission took the opportunity to address the planning portion of its mission Tuesday night, considering text amendments governing family campgrounds and blight.

Norfolk taxpayers may get a rare treat this year—a flat budget.

A referendum regarding the Regional School District No.7 Annual Budget will be held in the Town of Norfolk on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Voting will take place at the Town Hall from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Read more

A District Meeting of Regional School District No. 7 will be held Monday, May 4, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the Roberta S. Ohotnicky Little Theater at the Northwestern Regional School in Winsted, Connecticut to accept the proposed annual budget.

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

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.