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(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 ... Marie Zullo announced late this week that she plans to resign from the Norfolk School Committee after the annual town election in May. Zullo, who was elected to the committee in May 2008, is in the second of a three-year term. More ... A plumber working in Norfolk found another job to do during his lunch break, police said. A man who lives on Tucker Road left his home around noontime Saturday, January 23 and left the garage door open, said Norfolk Police Lieutenant Jon Carroll. The man’s 21-year-old woman was upstairs when she heard a noise and went to the stairs, where she encountered a man. More ... A 14-year-old Wrentham boy tried to buy lunch at King Philip Middle School in Norfolk with a counterfeit $20 bill late last month, police said. Police ended up discovering a second $20 bill on the floor in a school hallway, and two more were discovered in the school district’s bank, where they had apparently escaped detection when deposited, said Norfolk Police Lieutenant Jon Carroll. More ... A 23-year-old Walpole man who insisted on lighting up a cigarette at the bar of Guido’s Restaurant on Route 1A in Norfolk ended up taking on several people in a brawl, police said. More ... (Above): When Cory Krasner and James Ralff, fifth grade students at the Freeman-Centennial School in Norfolk, learned of the devastation in Haiti caused by an earthquake and the great need for medical supplies and food, they reached out to help. They organized a Hat Day fund-raiser to raise money to donate to Project Hope. More ... Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York has announced that two students from Norfolk have been named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2009 semester. More ... Norfolk’s town election season has barely begun, but candidates have already stepped forward, including some for more than one office. Three candidates have taken out nomination papers for Board of Selectmen: incumbent Jim Lehan and challengers Scott Bugbee and Mark Flaherty. More ... For the second year in a row, Norfolk elementary schools would begin before Labor Day if the town’s School Committee approves a school calendar currently under consideration. More ... The town’s Conservation Commission has shown interest in having the town purchase about 4 acres of undeveloped land off Grove Street. The commission last week directed its representative to the town’s Community Preservation Committee to bring the matter up. More ... Norfolk’s firefighters completed a four- day Technical Rescue program conducted by Heavy Rescue, a nationally known and respected firm which provides specialized firefightertraining, on Thursday, February 4. The members were certified in rope rescue including repelling and moving injured people via rope systems. More ... Scott Brown became a United States senator at 5:13 p.m. this past Thursday, as he was sworn into officeby Vice President Joe Biden. The swearing-in was reenacted for photographers in the old Supreme Court chambers in the U.S. Capitol in Washington at 5:22 p.m.. Brown, a Republican, most recently served as Norfolk’s state senator. More ... The new Walgreens in Norfolk Center is nearly completed and could open for business in late March or early April. But the town’s Planning Board is looking for assurances that Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, which controls the project, plans to finish the roadway and beautify the nearby wasteland known as the Moonscape. More ... |
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