Community Resource Officer Fritz Trojahn: (757) 390-0417 Police or Fire Emergency: 911 Police Non-Emergency: (757) 823-4433 Red Sector Lieutenant: (757) 823-4450
Parents! Children 6 months and older are now eligible to receive the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Stop by the Military Circle Mall (MCM) clinic at 880 N. Military Highway. NO APPOINTMENT REQUIRED. The walk-in only clinic is open on Tuesdays 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. All vaccinations are FREE.
COVID-19 vaccinations (6 months to 5 years old) are also offered at the Norfolk Health Department on Thursdays and Fridays. Call 757-683-2735 to schedule an appointment.
Thank you to all of our neighbors who came out for our recent ice cream social at the North Shore Playground. We hope to have more events like this in the future, so keep your eyes peeled and ears tuned for more details!
For our June 20th meeting, we are planning to forgo the actual meeting and invite all of our neighbors in Wards Corner to an informal ice cream social at the North Shore Playground honoring first responders. The event will start at our normal meeting time, 6:30pm. We should have plenty of daylight to work with that evening.
Parks & Recreation and Norfolk Public Library recently hosted virtual and in-person public input meetings for an enhanced Norfolk Fitness & Wellness Center with a library component. Check out the findings! The March 24 in-person public meeting can be viewed here.
The Norfolk Public Library’s mission is to provide equal opportunity access to information, high quality book and multimedia materials, programs, exhibits, and on-line resources to meet the needs of our diverse community for life-long learning, cultural enrichment, and intellectual stimulation. To fulfill its mission, the Library employs a knowledgeable, well-trained staff committed to excellent service and civility. The Strategic Directions are a list of ways that the Library seeks to fulfill its mission.
Spring is here and after the winter weather we’ve had, potholes become more frequent. Potholes get reported to the Department of Public Works Streets & Bridges. Crews are dispatched to inspect potholes in the order they’re received. Crews will temporarily patch the pothole to make it safe and complete the permanent repair within the next couple of days, weather permitting.
If you see a pothole, report it through the MyNorfolk app or online portal. Be sure to include a description of the pothole and the nearest street location to help Public Works Streets & Bridges crews make the repair as soon as possible.
The city also keeps track of how many potholes are repaired. You can check it out in the Work Order (Streets & Bridges) dataset in the Open Data Portal.
Starting April 9, calls must include the area code plus the seven digit telephone number for all local calls. To ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers, the State Corporation Commission approved the addition of a new area code, 948, to the geographic region served by the 757 area code. Telephone service providers will issue new numbers with the 948 area code in our service area. Calls to this area code will not incur a long distance charge.
The City of Norfolk’s Department of Transit is a year into the Granby Street Bridge Rehabilitation Project in which the bridge is undergoing extensive repairs to extend its useable life. Both the bridge deck and the support structures are being repaired to address current corrosion and deterioration issues as well as improve the bridge’s condition.
Beginning Monday, March 28, the southbound lanes on Granby Street Bridge will close to accommodate rehabilitation work on that portion of the bridge. Northbound traffic over the Granby Street Bridge will shift to the far two right northbound lanes. The inside left northbound lane on the bridge will then be closed and switched to carry all southbound traffic.
Further, the inside left turn lane on Willow Wood Drive will close to accommodate the single southbound lane crossing over the Granby Street Bridge.
This traffic pattern will be in place through late August. Four portable message signs warning of the upcoming traffic pattern changes were installed two weeks prior to the southbound bridge closure.
The contractor will coordinate with Norfolk police for assistance on site during this traffic pattern shift.
Wards Corner Civic League 