Your Norfolk. Your Life. The Official City of Norfolk Newsletter.

Volume 8 | March 2019

Connecting you to our urban, waterfront community.

Budget Bracket Challenge

A new, fun way to share your opinion on city spending priorities. Your choices join the data the City Manager and City Council use in budget discussions.

How it works:

Ever completed a basketball tournament bracket during March Madness? Then you already know how to play! Show us your priorities for city spending by making your choices bracket-style. Then we'll know your city programs champion. Click here to start!

Community Emergency Response Team

We currently have several hundred Norfolk residents who have completed Norfolk Community Engagement Response Team (CERT) training. These volunteers learn how to help in the immediate aftermath of a disaster and the goal is to have trained volunteers in every neighborhood. If you would like more information or would like to register for an upcoming class, call (757) 441-5619.

NorfolkArts Presents Glen McClure Exhibit

Located at the Offsite Gallery in the World Trade Center from March 15 to April 26, "A Saturday in Ocean View" by Glen McClure displays portraits of people encountered in parking lots, on sidewalks and at the beach entrance during a September 2018 visit to the Ocean View neighborhood.

Free and open to the public.

Calling All Teens

Know a Norfolk resident who will be a high school junior or senior in the 2019 - 2020 school year who wants to get involved in public safety? The Norfolk Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response organizing a Teen Local Emergency Planning Committee to help engage in innovative ways to keep neighborhoods safe and residents prepared. Applications are due April 1st. Click here for more information.

Live Norfolk

International Women's Day

Innovation Thru Inclusion

March 8, All Day

Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel

Ocean View Vision Community Meeting

March 11, 6PM - 7:30PM

Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch Library

5th Annual Experiencing Ghana Celebration

March 16, 4PM - 6PM

Taste 'N See Catering Murray Center

Attucks Jazz Club: Nate Najar

March 16, 8PM

Attucks Theatre

Website Survey - Feedback Needed!

We're redesigning our website to enhance the design, layout, functionality and the overall user experience. We want your input as we develop the new website. Take the survey .

The Bluest Eye

March 6 - 24

Virginia Stage Company, in collaboration with Norfolk State University Theatre Company, presents The Bluest Eye.

Adapted from Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye follows Pecola, a young girl in Ohio in the 1940s, who is pregnant at her father's hands. The play, both poetic and daringly funny - even as it breaks your heart - takes us through not only the whys of Pecola's story but also the hows. A story that looks at how the world might break us or give us the light to grow.

Find out more here .

Real Estate Tax Relief Program

Application Period Now Open

The Real Estate Tax Relief/Deferral Program is administered by the Department of Human Services for Norfolk homeowners who are 65 and older or totally disabled.

Click here for more information .

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