MassLive: "Former students mark 50th anniversary of ladybug becoming Mass. state insect"

Liesel Nygard reporting for MassLive provides a recap of the Ladybug reunion on Saturday, April 20:

"Did you know that Massachusetts’ official state insect is the ladybug?

The law was passed in 1974 after a large group of second graders from Kennedy School in Franklin, Mass. visited lawmakers at the State House in Boston while wearing homemade ladybug costumes.

Since ladybugs are considered good luck, and protect plants from pests without being harmful to gardens, the children and their teachers considered the insect worthy of becoming the Bay State’s official state’s bug."

Continue reading the article online at MassLive -> 

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/04/history-takes-wing-former-students-mark-50th-anniv-of-ladybug-becoming-mass-state-insect.html

Former students of Franklin School who helped pass a bug making the ladybug Massachusetts' official state insect celebrate the 50th anniversary of their success with an event at the Franklin Historical Museum on Saturday, April 20, 2024 (MassLive photo by Liesel Nygard).Liesel Nygard

Franklin TV: The MIAA Bracket Reveal

For High School Sports – This is a Big Event

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 03/03/2024

I ended last week with:

“ Saturday: 7:30am call time. Prepare to go live – statewide – with our first MIAA bracket reveal programs. Several other PEG studios will carry our programs live. “

I’m pleased to report that in a ‘first’ at Franklin.TV, working with MASSLive.com and MIAA (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association), our studio was connected across the state via several other PEG facilities, and over the internet via YouTube LIVE. We conducted two one-hour broadcasts hosted by Meredith Perri of MASSLive, along with Franklin.TV’s Jay Horrigan and Pete Royce. Thanks to Jim Clark and Steve Dubzinski at MIAA for their work on the stats and brackets.

In the studio, L to R: School Sports Historian, Michael Richard, Jay Horrigan and Meredith Perri interview a student athlete. Chris Flynn is at the studio controls.

All in, more than 3,000 folks statewide; athletes, athletic directors, coaches, and others, tuned in to Franklin.TV or their local cable station, or they watched online via YouTube Live to see the MIAA results immediately as they were released.

Events like this are also opportunities to produce more challenging ‘reach’ projects that advance our studio capabilities and staff skills. We’re already planning more technical updates to facilitate and improve our future Live MIAA events.

Let the word go forth – from MIAA.

Thanks for listening to 102.9 wfpr●fm. 

And – as always – thanks for watching.

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In case you want to watch the Hockey show ->   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhCmw602g4

or the Basketball show ->  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbJxr0MHbQ

Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online  http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf   

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to Tsongas Center (video)

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to Tsongas Center is a collaboration of the MIAA, MassLive, and broadcast by Franklin TV.

The YouTube recording of the live broadcast conducted on Saturday with the release of the high school Basketball brackets. There is a separate show covering the hockey brackets.

Video link -> https://www.youtube.com/live/lBbJxr0MHbQ?si=oZLtdyacoG6iYMym

MA D1 boys bracket (including Franklin) -> http://miaa.statebrackets.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=7008

MA D1 girls bracket (including Franklin) -> http://miaa.statebrackets.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=7019

Full set of MIAA brackets ->  here

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to Tsongas Center  (video)

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to TD Garden (video)

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to TD Garden is a collaboration of the MIAA, MassLive, and broadcast by Franklin TV.

The YouTube recording of the live broadcast conducted on Saturday with the release of the high school hockey brackets. There is a separate show covering the basketball brackets.

Video link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhCmw602g4

MA D1 boys bracket (including Franklin) -> http://miaa.statebrackets.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=6998

MA D1 girls bracket (including Franklin) -> http://miaa.statebrackets.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=7012

Full set of MIAA brackets ->  here

Winning Ways with the MIAA: The Road to TD Garden (video)

MIAA hockey brackets at 10 AM; basketball at 1 PM - both live broadcasts via Franklin TV

MIAA (@MIAA033) posted on Fri, Feb 23, 2024:

The MIAA Hockey Tournament brackets are being released tomorrow at 10 AM.  The first analysis show is at 10:15 with teams, coaches, and the media talking about the tourney.  

Here is the link -> Hockey - https://youtu.be/MgP371EEpfM

MIAA hockey brackets at 10 AM

The MIAA Basketball Tournament brackets are being released tomorrow at 1 PM. The first analysis show is at 1:15 PM with teams, coaches, and the media talking about the tourney.  

Here is the link -> Basketball - https://youtu.be/lBbJxr0MHbQ

MIAA basketball at 1 PM

MIAA (@MIAA033) announces new bracket release show on Franklin TV with MassLive

MIAA (@MIAA033) posted Thu, Feb 22, 2024:

"Big News from the MIAA, MassLive, and Franklin TV as the first Bracket Release Analysis Show will be this Saturday.  

Hockey will be on about 10:15, Basketball at 1:15.  

Coaches, media, student-athletes are going to be live as they talk about the tournament.  Link to follow."

Shared from -> https://twitter.com/MIAA033/status/1760730427344736696

The show can be found on the Franklin Pride TV  channel ->   https://www.youtube.com/@franklinpridetv7819/streams

MIAA (@MIAA033) announces new bracket release show on Franklin TV with MassLive