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| Dean's Franklin Fest scheduled for April 6 |
"***HARVEST FESTIVAL ROAD CLOSURE***Tomorrow, Saturday the 28th Main Street will be completely closed from East Central Street to Emmons Street from approximately 10:15 AM to 6 PM.
All side roads along this side of Main Street will also be closed."
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| FYI - Franklin Police announce road closures for Harvest Festival - Saturday, Sep 28 |
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| Harvest Festival this Saturday, Sep 28, 2024 |
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| Harvest Festival on Sep 28 |
The Franklin Downtown Partnership is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization made up of more than 300 business owners, residents, and community leaders working to revitalize downtown Franklin. Residents can join the Downtown Partnership for only $25. The Partnership manages events like the Strawberry Stroll and the Harvest Festival, and initiatives such as beautification, streetscape design, green space, alley murals, and sculpture projects. For more information go to www.franklindowntownpartnership.org
"Attention Franklin residents!!!
You know the old saying…it takes a village!
The Harvest Festival is a beloved family event that the downtown partnership has hosted for 21 years!!! But we CANNOT do it alone.
Our entire committee is made up of volunteers giving their time to make sure the event can go off successfully and safely. If you have 1-2 hours to give on Sept 28th please email us at fdpevent@gmail.com.
Your spared hour goes a LONG way for us!
Help us keep this event going!" #volunteer #communityservice #franklinma
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| Harvest Festival help needed -can you volunteer an hour or 2 ??? |
Via the Franklin Downtown Partnership:
"Important Harvest Festival info!!!
Registration for MEMBERS will be open Aug 16th and a link will be sent!
We are also seeking a few more sponsors!!
Email us at downtown.franklin@yahoo.com if you are interested"
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| Franklin Harvest Festival registration opens Aug 16, 2024 |
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| Cactus And Succulent Festival - Sep 14 |
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2024 Lowell Folk Festival Announces Full Performance Schedule - Music, Food, and Crafts From Around the World Showcased Throughout Lowell, MA July 26-28 #lowellfolk
LEARN MORE: https://t.co/kmTYf6WgMD or -> https://lowellfolkfestival.org/Shared from -> https://t.co/3y6TNI2VIw
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| FHS Film Festival |
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| Good weather set for Harvest Festival - Sunday, Oct 1 from noon to 4 PM |
Due to the high probability of rainy weather on our Saturday event day, and the consistent forecast for a perfect sunny Fall day on Sunday, the Franklin Downtown Partnership's 20th Harvest Festival will move the event to its planned rain date on Sunday, October 1. The event will take place from 12:00 – 4:00 PM but, other than shortening the event end time by one hour, all other event logistics.
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| Harvest Festival shifts to Sunday, Oct 1 from noon to 4 PM |
Shared from -> https://www.franklindowntownpartnership.org/2023/09/due-to-high-probability-of-rainy.html
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| Annual Harvest Festival |
About the Franklin Downtown PartnershipThe Franklin Downtown Partnership is a non-profit 501©3 organization made up of more than 350 business owners, residents, and community leaders working to revitalize downtown Franklin. Residents can join the Downtown Partnership for only $25. The Partnership manages events like the Strawberry Stroll and the Harvest Festival, and initiatives such as beautification, streetscape design, greenspace, alley murals, and sculpture projects. For more information go to www.franklindowntownpartnership.org
Shared from -> https://www.franklinps.net/sites/g/files/vyhlif4431/f/agendas/community_relations_harvest_festival_posting_2023.pdf
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| Jamie Barrett |
"The listing of matters are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law."
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| Community Relations Subcommittee - Meeting - Sep 11 at 6:00 PM |
FM #1048 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1048 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares the Master Plan Update Committee meeting held on Wednesday, August 23, 2023.
The Master Plan Update Committee met in the 3rd floor Training Room/ RM 326
Discussion on branding efforts complicated by heavy web presence of Franklin Tennessee and wanting to avoid confusion with them
Will have booth at Harvest Festival, discussion on logo, branding desire to have something ready to handout or engagement with community at booth
Proceeding with "Form Franklin's Future"
Recommendations from multiple members to obtain input in map based form, for multiple good reasons to help visualize and work with qualitatively, if not quantitatively
extended discussion on survey and use of an incentive to increase participation, action to run this by the Town Attny for 2 answers, one if the committee could do so (per meeting likely not); alternatively, might another non-town org (i.e. Dean College) run the survey (and include incentive) to enable the data to be used by the committee. Amy to get answers
Amy to create spreadsheet for committee members to use to add orgs and other contact points for outreach effort
The 2020 update to the Master Plan is the one to use for status of which of the prior plans objectives and actions items were completed or not. Ginelle has marked up the spreadsheet with color coding on completion status and will share to the drive from other members to work with
Meeting adjourns
Listen to the recording of the Master Plan Update Cmte meeting held on August 23, 2023. The meeting runs about 2 hours.
Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1048-master-plan-update-cmte-mtg-08-23-23
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The agenda doc is rich with links to the prior master plan and associated materials
The Master Plan update Committee page -> https://www.franklinma.gov/master-plan-update-committee
My notes captured during the meeting can be found in one PDF file ->
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aIOl7qtMIACVrUlp5-hYD6KkQRleMdo_/view?usp=drive_link
The meeting video is available for replay ->
https://www.youtube.com/live/1sLTy6XZK48
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| Master Plan Update Committee discusses timeline, outreach, survey and more in 2 hour session (audio) |
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