In the News: forensic science, stone walls, opposition to pipeline, Purple Heart community

Franklin High School is making a forensic science course and state-of-the-art lab available to residents through its Lifelong Learning Institute. 

The course — wildly popular with high school students — will introduce how crime scene investigators pull from biology and chemistry, as well as mathematics and physics, to solve a murder or robbery.

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Stone walls are a common sight in New England’s great open fields and dark, quiet forests. 

To New Hampshire author Kevin Gardner, each wall contributes to the story of the region’s history.

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A small group of area residents has organized in opposition to Spectra Energy’s planned 10.1-mile natural gas pipeline in Massachusetts. 

Spectra Energy, a Texas-based company, has submitted a proposal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend its Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline system into the Northeast. The Atlantic Bridge pipeline, if approved, would connect into the existing 1,127-mile-long Algonquin line.

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Joining more than 60 other cites and towns in the state, the Franklin Town Council has embraced the designation of “Purple Heart Community” in recognition of local veterans. 

The council at its meeting Wednesday approved a proclamation, which Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting will forward to the state’s Military Order of the Purple Heart chapter, declaring the town among the many Purple Heart Communities in Massachusetts.

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