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Selectmen will likely ask voters for an operating budget override of Proposition 2 ½ this spring. That’s because selectmen consider likely cuts that would have to be made without an override to be unacceptable. More ... It’s official: There’s a race for Norfolk Board of Selectmen. Challenger Scott Bugbee returned nomination papers with signatures this week to qualify for the ballot. He joins Jim Lehan, the current chairman of the Board of Selectmen, who had already returned nomination papers. One three-year term is available on the town’s top board. More ... A 34-year-old man whom police say beat up his live-in girlfriend and then barricaded himself inside their home at 6 Priscilla Avenue with two shotguns in November was sentenced to a year in jail this week, police said. More ... Norfolk police have gotten several complaints over large potholes that have appeared on town roads recently. At 6:41 p.m. February 24 a driver reported a pothole on Main Street on the way to Walpole. Later that same night, at 10:25 p.m., a driver reported a large pothole on Route 1A near Valley Street. (Route 1A, known locally as Dedham Street, is a state road.) At 9:52 a.m. More ... Norfolk police stopped three school buses and several other vehicles for running the stop sign on King Street at Union Street this past Wednesday afternoon. Police had gotten complaints about vehicles running the stop sign, said Norfolk Police Lieutenant Jon Carroll. The drivers got verbal warnings, Carroll said. More ... The Norfolk School Committee plans to solicit names for the new elementary school that is to replace Freeman-Centennial School. The School Committee got a request from the architects that school officials come up with a name now so that it can be included on design plans and so designers can figure out how big the area on the building for the name needs to be. More ... Town officials are inviting all members of town boards and committees to a free seminar on changes to the state’s Open Meeting Law that take effect July 1. Brian Riley, a partner at the Boston law firm Kopelman and Paige, is planning to discuss the changes to meeting notice requirements, More ... |
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