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Aidan Lindmark, 7, of Norfolk dropped the ceremonial first puck before the beginning of the King Philip-Franklin boys hockey game this past Saturday night at Staff Sgt. Robert Pirelli Veterans Memorial Arena in Franklin, as captains from the two teams squared off at center ice. The Lindmarks won the ceremonial puck dropping at a Norfolk Community League charity auction. More...
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Public Hearing Draws Heavy Opposition To Shared Superintendent Proposal Between Norfolk K-6 Schools and King Philip
By Matt McDonald

The Norfolk School Committee may decide next week whether to take another step toward hiring the next King Philip superintendent to lead Norfolk’s elemen­tary schools. Both school committees are looking for a new superintendent to begin July 1. The question is: Will it be the same per­son? More...

Lucia Godfrey Retiring As Principal of Freeman-Centennial
By Matt McDonald

Lucia Godfrey is planning to retire April 2 as principal of Freeman-Cen­tennial School. “The children and the Town of Nor­folk have been extremely fortunate to have had such an outstanding and car­ing More...

Should LeClerc Stay?
Supporters Say Yes; School Committee Members Say It’s Not Happening
By Matt McDonald

Might Don LeClerc stay on as Norfolk elementary schools’ superintendent? Maybe not, but that’s what several people at a public hearing this week called for. More...

Norfolk Firefighters Help Put Out Fire at Auto Parts Junk Yard in Wrentham

Norfolk Firefighters responded to Wrentham on Thursday, Febru­ary 4 at about 1 p.m. for a fire at the Armitage Auto Parts junk yard located at 1143 South Street (Route 1A). Members staffed Engine 2, which first covered the Wrentham station and then was called to the incident to relieve firefighters. Ladder 1 was also called to refillfire­fighter More...

 Norfolk In Brief
• article has image Norfolk Cooperative Preschool Students Collect Stuffed Animals to Give to Children’s Hospital
(Above): Andrew Obara and Flannery Dalton, students at the Norfolk Cooperative Preschool, pose with the stuffed animals the school collected for Children’s Hospital of Boston. The hospital gives each patient undergoing a procedure or surgery a new stuffed animal. More...
• Zullo Resigning From Norfolk School Committee
• Tools of the Trade
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 Happenings
• Planning Under Way for KP All-Night Graduation Party
Attention King Philip Parents - we need your help! Come network with other parents. The All Night Party preparations have begun. Please drop in Tuesday between 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. in the Cafeteria/Theater (Room 461) at the High School to help us create, to plan or to be a worker for the Senior All-Night Party. All grade level parents are needed and welcome. More...
• Norfolk Lions to Host Information Night
• Happenings
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 Letters to the Editor
• Letter to the Editor
Swensons Need Help
To the Editor: Regardless of the conditions found at the Swenson home in July, Norfolk building commissioner Robert Bullock has stated that alternatives to throwing them out of their home existed and he could have worked with them to remedy the situation (“De­nied,” Friday, January 29). More...
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 King Philip Sports
• 2010 Norfolk Baseball Umpire Training
Norfolk Baseball is pleased to announce that the 2010 Norfolk Baseball Um­pire Training is scheduled to begin within the next several weeks. The classes will be taught by Mike Fata. You must register for this training session. Please email your name and phone number to Greg Allen, Little League Umpire-in-Chief at gregory.allen@sierraatlan­tic. com. More...
• Norfolk Lions Youth Soccer Registration
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 Religion in Norfolk
• Religion In Norfolk
Editor’s Note: Norfolk has three churches and a fourth church congregation that uses the town’s library. Below are the regular schedules of church services for the church congregations in Norfolk. More...
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 Guest Columns
• Guest Column
The Sweet Vagaries of Life
Senior Senator John F. Kerry of the Commonwealth of Mas­sachusetts has launched an of­fensive to get the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open up all its files related to Martin Luther King. Boston’s largest newspaper has gone the erstwhile, but rather forgetful, senator one better and has asked lawmakers to press the FBI to open all its files on the “civil rights era.” More...
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 Meetings
• Meetings
The following are some meetings that were posted or announced recently. Boards and committees can schedule meetings, can­cel meetings, or alter the starting times of meetings on relatively short notice. Norfolk Town Hall is at One Liberty Lane in Nor­folk Center. Saturday, February 6 More...
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 Beacon Hill Roll Call
• article has image Beacon Hill Roll Call
Beacon Hill Roll Call Volume 37-Report No. 4 Monday, January 25 through Friday, January 29, 2009 Copyright © 2010 Beacon Hill Roll Call. All Rights Reserved. THE HOUSE AND SENATE. More...
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 Obituaries
• Marie A. Alix, 91
Marie A. Alix of Hillcrest Village in Norfolk died on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at Caritas Norwood Hospital in Norwood. She was the beloved widow of Ernest E. Alix, who died in 1985. She was born June 23, 1918 in Darlington, Rhode Is­land, loving daughter of Auguste and Marguerite (Thieabult) Petit. More...
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