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Beyond beauty: Local American Junior Miss contestants compete for scholarships
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Franklin bar robbed at gunpoint
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More local veterans reporting possible poisoning from Gagetown training
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
"Alina should be viewed as a representative among winners"
The competition for the Massachusetts Junior Miss 2009 title at Horace Mann Middle School was fierce, said Franklin High senior Alina Ostrow.
Fourteen teenage girls, each in the top 10 percent of their class, gathered in the Thomas Mercer Auditorium for the two-day competition last weekend.
Each displayed a talent honed since childhood.
And all spoke their minds and strutted their athletic prowess on stage, doing push-ups and more challenging variations of push-ups in a choreographed aerobic routine designed to test their strength, balance and agility.
Read the full article about Alina Ostrow in the Milford Daily News here
Friday, December 5, 2008
Alina Ostrow wins Franklin Junior Miss title
FRANKLIN -
Alina Kathryn Ostrow was awarded the title of Franklin’s Junior Miss 2009 at the Franklin program on Nov. 29, Along with her title, she received a $1,000 cash scholarship, the official Junior Miss Medallion, and a one-year full tuition scholarship to Dean College. Alina is a student at Franklin High School.
A panel of five judges selected her from a field of seventeen high school seniors competing in the 41st annual Franklin Junior Miss scholarship program.
In addition to being named Franklin’s Junior Miss, Ostrow also won a preliminary Scholastic award, for a total of $1,100 in cash scholarships.
Ostrow will go on to compete in the Massachusetts Junior Miss finals in Franklin, on Feb. 21 and 22, at the Thomas D. Mercer Auditorium.
Read the full article in the Gazette here.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Junior Miss Program
41st Franklin Junior Miss Scholarship Program.
7 p.m.
Thomas D. Mercer Auditorium, Horace Mann Middle School, Oak Street, Franklin.
Tickets available at the door: $15
This year’s theme is "Friends."
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
"I get more out of it now"
For the first time since its Franklin inception 40 years ago, the Junior Miss program is bowing out.
Organizers canceled the show, which is part of the America's Junior Miss Scholarship Program, this year due to a lack of funds and sponsors, but hope to bring it back next year by appealing to former donors and attracting new ones, said Becky Lavergne, chairwoman of Franklin Junior Miss.
"We have no choice - we have no money to give away. Our committee's gone over this a lot. ... We knew it was probably coming since last November. No one wanted to do this, but it was either give it up completely, or raise as much money as possible and come back next year," Lavergne said.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here