Franklin Matters: franklin tv

Showing posts with label franklin tv. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2026

Franklin TV schedule for Monday, April 27, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = MONDAY

7:00 am Aging Boldfully: Anne Bergen

8:00 am SAFE Coalition: Danny Lagarce

9:00 am SAFE Coalition Gala 2026

11:30 am Cooking Thyme: Ice Cream

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Taquitos

12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Italian Sausage

1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: Margherita Pizza

2:30 pm New England Candlepins Summer 2023 Show 1

6:00 pm Jon Mitchell & Randy LaRosa: 12-Tone Music

7:00 pm Frank Presents: Djuna Perkins

8:00 pm The Black Box: Newsies

10:00 pm Circle of Friends: Cheryl Wheeler

Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = MONDAY

7:00 am Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band

8:30 am SAFE Coalition: Danny Lagarce

9:30 am Winning Ways with the MIAA: Student Athletes Pt 1

10:30 am FHS Concert Hour 02-25-26

12:00 pm 6th Grade Winter Music 02-10-26

1:30 pm FHS Girls Varsity Lacrosse v Needham 04-23-26

7:00 pm FHS Varsity Baseball v Catholic Memorial 04-21-26

9:05 pm Franklin Footlighters: Footloose

Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = MONDAY

8:00 am Planning Board 03-23-26

12:00 pm Communications Subcommittee Fl3 TRAINING ROOM 889 8251 9099

2:00 pm Planning Board 03-23-26

7:00 pm Planning Board CHAMBERS 87070415887

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

Watch Listen Read all things that matter in Franklin MA

Sunday, April 26, 2026

FHS softball (video) & baseball teams post wins on Saturday

Via Instagram, Franklin TV, and our subscription to HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the Spring sports competition for Franklin High School on Saturday, April 25, 2026

Baseball = Franklin, 6 vs. North Quincy, 5 – Final (11 inn.)

Franklin coach Zach Brown earned his 200th
career win with the Panthers
after a walkoff win over North Quincy.
(Courtesy of Jen Edmunds)

– This win was a special one for Franklin head coach Zach Brown. Not only was it his 200th career win with the Panthers, but his son Jacoby was the winning pitcher after a stellar relief appearance and freshman Ethan Edmunds — son of Brown’s longtime assistant Brett Edmunds — delivered the game-winning hit to walk it off in the bottom of the 11th inning. Jacoby Brown came on in the top of the eighth and kept the visiting Raiders quiet, giving up just one hit — a leadoff double on the first pitch he threw — and didn’t issue a single walk to give the Panthers a chance to win. Edmunds, who was intentionally walked in the bottom of the ninth with the winning run on third, got a second chance in the bottom of the 11th. Senior Jack Sullivan reached on an error, senior Sean Kryzak (two hits, run) was hit by a pitch, and senior James Bruso reached on an infield single to load the bases. Edmunds first hit of the day brought the game-winning run home for the walk off win. Sophomores Cam Lambert (RBI) amd Patrick Luizzi (RBI, run) each had two hits while junior Owen Pennini drove in a pair of runs for the Panthers.

Softball = Franklin, 2 vs. Hopkinton, 0 – Final

– Franklin senior Sophia Sacramone dazzled in the circle in a complete game shutout effort to lead the Panthers to their biggest win of the season over D2 title contender Hopkinton. Sacramone scattered four walks in seven innings of work, striking out seven without issuing a walk. Scoreless through five innings, Sacramone helped her own cause with a clutch double in the bottom of the sixth to break the deadlock. Freshman Phoebe O’Connor (2-for-3) reached on an infield single and hustled all the way around the bases when Sacramone drove a double to right center field to make it 1-0. Senior Ava Florest (2-for-3) came through with another clutch hit with a two-out single to center to score Sacramone from second to make it 2-0. Senior Ella Weston also had a pair of hits for the Panthers in the win.

Franklin TV video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec6wuiN4Q2M

For other results across the Hockomock League (subscription required)

https://hockomocksports.com/saturdays-schedule-scoreboard-04-25-26/

FHS Panther sports results shared via Twitter & subscription to HockomockSports.com

Franklin TV: The Magic Weeks

To the leaves, I say ‘Good Morning.’

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 04/26/2026

I regard this past week as the start of the ‘magic weeks’. It’s that time in the year when the trees get serious about doing their greening thing. Last Sunday? No green. Nothing but Wintersticks – naked branches on trees and bushes. But, life was awakening within them. Driving home on Friday. Green is happening, and rather quickly. By next weekend the dramatic change from Winter’s emptiness to Summer’s fulgent leafing will be in full sway.

Above: Leaves return; week one.

It’s a time in the year that quickens the pace of life. I rise to an ever earlier Sun, and I enjoy an affirmative jump on the day – that is more challenging in Winter’s dark. In every sense there’s Spring in my step.

And the newly rustling leaves return my nod with their gentle, ‘Good Morning.’

And – as always –

Thank you for watching.
Thanks for listening to wfpr●fm,
and staying informed at Franklin●news.

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

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Finance Committee closes out 16+ hours of budget hearings with proposed adjustments (audio)

FM #1728 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1728 in the series.

This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee Budget Hearing, the Last of 4 sessions to go over the FY 2027 budget. The meeting was held in Council Chambers with 7 of 9 members present.

Quick recap:

This session was time well spent by the Committee to review the potential adjustments to the budget and come to a consensus on them. They started with a set of goals and a process to work through the listing of the items for discussion based upon what had occurred over the prior three nights.
They wanted to minimize use of free cash. The end proposal recommends $1.8M of free cash rather than $2M
They wanted to move some of the regular recurring 'capital items' to the ops budget where they belong. They took a step in that direction with less than $100K of police gear putting that in the Ops budget. Next cycle those items won't need to come before the Capital budget as a request
They made a strategic investment in a couple of positions. One already in the budget for a part time clerk in the Assessors office, and additional hybrid inspector/admin help for the Building Commissioner's team. This should help the assessors and inspectors to do the work they need to do while providing some additional administrative help to help the work flow and improve our permit and tax base (both revenue generators)
They proposed reducing the Facilities expense budget
They confirmed the need for restoration of the Deputy Town Administrator and the School Resource officers (SROs)
They will request that the Schools look as possibly using more of their revolving funds to help balance their budget and in turn free up more free cash on the Town side to not be used for the overall budget
The complete set of the adjustments will be written up, presented by the FinCom to the Town Council and Joint Budget Subcommittee. The line item adjustments will be made and incorporate some other updates for the Town Administrator to issue a revised budget proposal before the Council gets to finalize their vote at the June 10th meeting. It may not be ready for the May 20-21 Council budget hearings, the key item that still might be outstanding before those hearings is the FY 2027 health costs as the annual enrollment completes April 30

Let’s listen in

Audio link - https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1728-finance-cmte-budget-hearing-4-04-09-26/

--------------

Franklin TV video is available for replay - https://www.youtube.com/live/3oIsBHQ73Ts?&t=1170

The amended agenda doc - https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092026-2222

My full set of notes in one PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzSDXoQxk7P0ztXRKjPpcPTPrZgBNE78/view?usp=drive_link

Dept of Arts, Culture & Creative Economy metrics as referenced by Cory Shea during the budget hearing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zQV7NQTLRSy1UnPKxad0wtW8Q-76YqOc/view?usp=drive_link

--------------

We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like something here, please let me know
And if you have interest in reporting on meetings or events, please reach out. We’ll share and show you what and how we do what we do

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news/

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

------------------

You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

3rd budget hearing covers Public Works & Public Safety (audio)

FM #1727 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1727 in the series.

This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee Budget Hearing on Public Works & Public Safety, the 3rd of 4 sessions to go over the FY 2027 budget. The meeting was held in Council Chambers with 8 of 9 members present.

Quick recap:

Gus Brown, Building Commissioner, up first
Brutus Cantoreggi, DPW up next,
Next up Police Chief Lynch, level service plus 2, looking to get the SROs back
Next up, Chief Allen, Fire Dept.
Dispatch Center or the MECC being covered
Also skipped Tri-County and Norfolk Aggie last night with no explanation given for it. Tri-County and Norfolk Aggie, both assessments based upon enrollment, not much of a change year to year
So Thursday night, the Finance Committee will use the 3rd Floor Training room for their discussion to be more “around a table” rather than spread out to help their discussion. Potential revisions coming to the budget, what they are we'll watch and see.

Let’s listen in

Audio link - https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1727-finance-cmte-budget-hearing-3-04-08-26/

--------------

The Franklin TV video is available for replay -

https://www.youtube.com/live/x8Hb_pCl64A?&t=164

Agenda doc including links to the FY 2027 budget

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2221

My full set of notes in one PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-RumOpcYkE7SZ_czpSZzW5TKdS9SE3B/view?usp=drive_link

--------------

We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like something here, please let me know
And if you have interest in reporting on meetings or events, please reach out. We’ll share and show you what and how we do what we do

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news/

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

I hope you enjoy!

------------------

You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

Friday, April 24, 2026

2nd Finance Cmte budget hearing gets answers to some Qs from Monday, then gets to the FPS budget (audio)

FM #1726 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1726 in the series.

This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee Budget Hearing on Education, the 2nd of 4 sessions to go over the FY 2027 budget. The meeting was held in Council Chambers with 8 of 9 members present.

Quick Recap:

Time spent at the opening to answer questions carried over from the Facilities discussion on Monday
Technology, Tim Raposa presents and answers questions
Next up, Schools - Supt Giguere, Business Manager Jana Melotti, Paul Griffith (SchCmte Chair)
Discussion among the committee on how to proceed, ultimately will use the Thursday session to consolidate their approaches in a discussion to lead to a recommendation vote.
Note - meeting location likely to change from Chambers to 3rd Floor Trng Room (Conservation Commission would come down to Chambers).

Let’s listen in

Audio link - https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1726-finance-cmte-budget-hearing-2-04-07-26/

--------------

The Franklin TV video is available for replay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SrQw4jc-r0

Agenda doc including links to the FY 2027 budget

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2220

My full set of notes in one PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AbMULy0fFpVjFAEsHm6Cs5-2PcxcfpBx/view?usp=drive_link

--------------

We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like something here, please let me know
And if you have interest in reporting on meetings or events, please reach out. We’ll share and show you what and how we do what we do

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news/

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

I hope you enjoy!

------------------

You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

Both FHS girls lacrosse and baseball teams post wins on Thursday

Via Instagram, Franklin TV, and our subscription to HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the Spring sports competition for Franklin High School on Thursday, April 23, 2026

Baseball = Franklin, 10 @ Wachusett, 6 – Final

– Franklin’s five runs in the top of the seventh inning originally looked like insurance but they turned out to be vital as the Panthers held on for a win on the road at Wachusett. Franklin led 3-2 going into the sixth and 5-3 heading into the final frame of the game. Sophomore Ethan Herndon drilled a one-out home run to right, sophomore Ethan Edmunds blasted a two-out, three-run home run to right, and junior Owen Pennini smoked a triple and scored on an error as the Panthers’ advantage ballooned to 10-3. Wachusett rallied in the bottom half to get within four, and had the bases loaded, but Brady Short got the final out to close out the win. Jack Sullivan set the tone from the leadoff spot with three hits, including a double, and scored three runs. Edmunds (five RBI, double) and sophomore Cam Lambert (double, RBI) also had three hits in the win. Edmunds secured the win on the mound, allowing two runs (none earned) on three hits and four walks, striking out seven in five innings.

Softball = Franklin, 4 @ Newton North, 5 – Final

Girls Lacrosse = Franklin, 15 vs. Needham, 7 – Final

– Franklin trailed 5-4 at halftime, but went on a 10-0 run after the break to turn the game on its head and run away with a comfortable non-league win to stay unbeaten this spring. Kendall Mone was instrumental in Franklin’s win, causing four turnovers on defense and controlling the game on the draw. Morgan Lovell grabbed six draw controls for the Panthers and her defense on Needham’s top attacker helped the Panthers turn the game around in the second half. Izzy Cross continued her strong play in attack with five goals and two assists. Ruby Risgin scored four times and set up another and Clara Blongastainer added a hat trick and a helper.

Franklin TV video available for replay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tjqDMrNK-A