The FHS girls & boys tennis, girls (video) & boys lacrosse, along with softball (video) & baseball teams all post wins on Monday

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 27, 2026

Baseball = Franklin, 16 @ Milford, 2 - Final

– Franklin’s offense was on fire and collected 19 hits and senior DJ Silverstein had a standout effort on the mound as the Panthers picked up a big win at Fino Field. Franklin jumped ahead with three runs in the first, added a trio of runs in both the third and fifth innings, and blew the game wide open with six runs in the top of the seventh. Senior Sean Kryzak led the hit parade for the Panthers with three hits, including a pair of doubles, and two RBI and four runs scored. Jack Sullivan (triple, two runs), Patrick Luizzi, Ethan Edmunds (three RBI, double), Drake McAlpine (two runs, double), Joey Goguen (double, four RBI), and Henry George (two runs, double) each had two hits. Silverstein gave up two runs on just two hits and one walk, striking out nine in a six-inning effort while Cal McKenna struck out a pair in a scoreless inning in relief. Ryan Atherton and Cody Geoffroy (stolen base) each had a hit for the Scarlet Hawks.

Softball = Milford, 4 @ Franklin, 5 – Final 

– Franklin pulled out a close one-run win in a back-and-forth battle against visiting Milford. The Scarlet Hawks scored once in the first and third innings to take the lead before the Panthers plated a trio of runs in the fourth to take their first lead of the game. Milford once again jumped ahead with a pair of two-out runs in the top of the sixth, but Franklin answered with two runs in the bottom half to tie it and go ahead with just one inning to go. Angelina Bonina (2-for-3, run) had a two-out single and an error allowed sophomore Brooke Stokes (single) to score and tie the game in the top of the sixth. Lilah Driscoll followed with a single through the right side to bring Bonina home to put the visitors up 4-3. In the bottom half, Ava Florest and Ciara O’Brien (2-for-3, RBI, run) led off with back-to-back singles; the former scored on a sac fly from Ella Weston (two RBI) to tie it, and the latter came home for the go-ahead run on a two-out single from Michaela O’Brien (2-for-3, two RBI). Sophia Sacramone (3 IP, 3H, 2ER, 1BB, 5K) and Phoebe O’Connor (4 IP, 2H, 2R, 0ER, 1BB, 4K) split pitching duties for the Panthers. Liana Chiccarelli had a pair of hits and RBI for the Hawks, including a double, and Lauren Williams struck out five in the circle.

Franklin TV video = https://www.youtube.com/live/MyTvQzw9mew?&t=1496

Boys Lacrosse = Franklin, 12 @ Stoughton, 4 – Final

Girls Lacrosse = Stoughton, 2 @ Franklin, 20 – Final 

– Franklin secured a big win at home as Juliana Owen and Kendall Mone each scored their first goal of the season, while freshman Ellie Gillespie and freshman Brynn Nutter each netted their first career goal. For Stoughton, senior Kaitlyn Mitchell and eighth grader Sophie Kirkwood each scored once.

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

Boys Tennis = Milford, 0 @ Franklin, 5 – Final 

– Franklin rolled at home, taking all five matches in straight sets to knock off visiting Milford. Sophomore Deklan Morin earned a 6-0, 6-2 win at first singles, while classmates Anish Bokil (6-2, 6-2) and Max Sebell (6-1, 6-1) completed the singles sweep at second and third singles, respectively. In doubles, seniors Jackson Labella and Romane Celestine teamed up for a 6-2, 6-2 win at first doubles, while the pairing of junior Rushil Partidar and senior Alex Leong only dropped one game in a 6-0, 6-1 victory at second doubles.

Girls Tennis = Franklin, 4 @ Milford, 1 – Final

– Franklin won twice in singles and twice in doubles to take a win on the road at Milford. Senior Isabelle Simino earned a 6-2, 6-3 win at first singles while sophomore Anna Powers recorded a 6-0, 6-0 double bagel at third singles. At first doubles, the pairing of sophomore Genevieve Camire and freshman Alexa Buliung secured a 6-0, 6-4 win, and at second doubles, sophomores Julianne Love and Poojan Gaur picked up a 6-3, 6-1 victory. Milford freshman Ella Knapp earned a hard-fought 6-4, 7-5 win at second singles.

For other results across the Hockomock League (subscription required)

https://hockomocksports.com/mondays-schedule-scoreboard-04-27-26/

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

Town Council's Communication Subcmte meets for the first time Monday, April 27 (video)

The Town Council's Communication Subcmte met for the first time on Monday, April 27, 2026 as scheduled at noon. All four members participated, 3 in the 3rd floor training room, 1 remote (Grella).

Chair Caroline Griffith opened the session. She opened for comments from the committee members on what their ideas were. Councilor Max Morrongiello, then Councilor Jane Callaway-Tripp and Councilor Gene Grella shared their ideas before Chair Griffith completed the round.

Liz Kalaijian, Director of Communications & Community Engagement as well as Julie McCann, Operations Manager participated.

Franklin TV video = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZWNXNKTd8

Meeting agenda - https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04272026-2270 

My set of notes from the meeting in one PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JiB0YpZXFHfWRnnMBQM7u26r8qx6cOiJ/view?usp=drive_link

Franklin TV schedule for Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

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

7:00 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open

7:30 am     Franklin Matters: Joe Landry YMCA

9:00 am Sons & Daughters of Italy: Ciambotta

10:00 am Frank Presents: Djuna Perkins

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Taquitos

12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Italian Sausage

1:30 pm     Pizzapalooza: Margherita Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins Summer 2023 Show 1

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 4

3:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Student Athletes Pt 1

5:30 pm Jon Mitchell & Randy LaRosa: 12-Tone Music

9:00 pm SAFE Coalition Gala 2026

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

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

8:30 am FHS Concert Hour 02-25-26

10:00 am Sons & Daughters of Italy: Ciambotta

1:00 pm FHS Varsity Softball v North Attleboro 04-08-26

3:00 pm MSTCA Track Meet Pt 2 04-28-24

7:00 pm All-Town Chorus & Orchestra 2026

8:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Student Athletes Pt 1

9:30 pm Franklin Footlighters: Footloose

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

8:00 am School Committee 04-14-26

12:00 pm Joint Budget Subcommittee 04-16-26

2:00 pm School Committee 04-14-26

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

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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 

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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 
 

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/

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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

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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

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

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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/

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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 

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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!

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