Welcome to Norfolk, Connecticut

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.

The Board of Finance wrestled with the impact of an aging fleet of Public Works trucks on town finances when it met Tuesday night.

A town meeting is being planned for Monday, April 6, to act on a proposal to join the newly organized Northwest Resource Recovery Authority (NRRA) and other issues.

Work is resuming on construction projects mothballed during the months-long deep freeze that enveloped the Northwest Corner this winter, and another will get started soon.

The Rails to Trails Committee has finally received a general permit from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to construct North Brook Trail.

The Norfolk Nature Alliance is sponsoring a year-long initiative focused on creating habitat for pollinators.

Special education costs have gone down in the proposed 2026/27 budget, Botelle Superintendent Kevin Case told Board of Finance members during the board’s monthly meeting Tuesday.

A Special Town Meeting will be 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

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.

Northwest Regional School District No. 7 presented its Superintendent’s Proposed 2026-2027 Budget Presentation (updated 3/24/26) and Proposed 2026-2027 Working Budget Summary (updated 3/14/26) at the Botelle School Cafeteria on Monday, March 23, 2026. Copies are available at the Town Clerk’s office.

Certified lists of the Democratic and Republican Party endorsed candidates for the Town of Norfolk Democratic and Republican Committees-at-large are available on file in the office of the Town Clerk.