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May 14, 2010  RSS feed

Patrick Hints at State Funding for Ambulance During Visit To Norfolk Saturday
Governor Deval Patrick may be leaving Norfolk a parting gift from his visit to town Saturday: a new am­bulance for the Fire Department. More...
Same As The Old Boss

Jim Lehan won re-election to a third straight three-year term as selectman this week, taking a little more than 58 percent of the vote over challengers Scott Bug­bee and Mark Flaherty. Advisory Board member CiCi Van Tine narrowly de­feated former selectman Jonathan Smith for town mod­erator, winning by 5 percentage points. More...

Override, Meals Tax Top Warrant

Editor’s Note: Annual Town Meeting is scheduled to begin Tuesday, May 18, and several observers expect it will conclude Wednesday, May 19. More...

What An Override Won’t Do Two prominent areas of local services would not benefit from an operating budget override as it is currently constituted: the town’s Department of Public Works and King Philip regional schools. More...
An Events Calendar for Norfolk
Editor’s Note: Norfolk Public Library is at 139 Main Street in Norfolk Center. All places and addresses below that do not spec­ify a municipality are in the town of Norfolk. May Sunday, May 16 More...
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...
Recently an article appeared in a major newspaper that sug­gests our focus needs to shift from cost to quality. The authors point to fiascos such as the Big Dig’s collapsing ceilings, the rup­tured More...
Police and fire units re­sponded and after assess­ing, found no one injured. This was one of five calls handled by the on-shift fire­fighters during Mother’s Day. Other calls included two ALS calls, a house lock­out and a wires down call. More...
The following are 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. Next week is the beginning (and possibly end) of annual Town Meeting. More...
Joann B. (Lasky) Tyo of Bellingham died unexpectedly on Fri­day, May 7, 2010 at Landmark Hospital in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. She was 48. She was born in Norwood, the daughter of the late John and Doris (Horton) Lasky. She graduated from King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham. She was a former resident fo Norfolk and Wrentham. More...
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