Video link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8VolPWolDU
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Aging Boldfully: Look Back Then Move Forward (video)
Susan Rohrbach recaps and expands upon the first three episodes of her new Aging Boldfully. Tony DaSilva joins Susan in the discussion.
Franklin TV schedule for Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = TUESDAY
7:00 am Battleship Cove: Inside the History Pt. 2
7:30 am Once Upon A Town: The Rome Block
9:00 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open
10:00 am Frank's Musings: Venezuela
12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs
12:30 pm Cook with Linda: Broccoli Salad
1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: White Pizza
2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4
3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 10
3:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1
5:30 pm The Circuit Breakers
9:00 pm U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19
Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = TUESDAY
7:00 am Public School Event: Concert Hour Day 1
8:30 am FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25
10:00 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open
11:00 am Lifelong Winter Music 2026
1:30 pm FHS Girls Varsity Hockey v Mansfield 01-07-26
4:00 pm FHS Varsity Swimming v Taunton 01-09-26
8:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1
9:30 pm FHSTC: Peter and the Starcatcher
Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = TUESDAY
8:00 am School Committee 01-13-26
2:00 pm School Committee 01-13-26
7:00 pm School Committee CHAMBERS 896 4700 4718 Passcode 854179
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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Monday, January 26, 2026
4 hour Finance Meeting recording in 2 parts for convenience: P1 - economics of development, P2 - capital budget (audio)
FM #1643-44 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1643-44 in the series.
This session shares the Finance Committee meeting conducted Wednesday, January 14, 2026. 8 members of the Committee participated, 1 absent.
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| 4 hour Finance Meeting recording in 2 parts for convenience |
The recording is in 2 parts:
P1 for the economics of development
P2 for the capital budget
Quick recap ->
Board of Assessors and Town Staff: The Economics of Development, residential valuations are based upon residential property sales and comparables. Commercial Industrial valuations are more complicated in that there is a revenue factor for how much money the operations is actually making (confidentially reported to the Assessors) along with several other factors. The repeated phrase was "it's complicated"
We did hear that there is NO issue with water supply or sewer capacity. Police and Fire are understaffed (but managing as best they can for the volume), Schools built extra capacity as part of the redistricting effort. The per pupil amount talked of is not what each net new student would cost. There are existing capacities to handle some number of students without adding a teacher
Part of the agenda included an update on the abatement process which was not covered and seems to be deferred to a future meeting (TBD)
The capital budget first pass was approved after a lengthy discussion. Town policy calls for funding multiple stabilization accounts, this year only the OPEB account was proposed for funding due to the budget shortfall and that it had not been funded last year.
The OPEB fund resolution passed 8-0-1 (1 absent)
The first pass at the tier 1 capital requests accounted for $1.8M and was proposed to amend to remove the sprinkler system work required at the Senior Center. The amendment was meant to reserve the additional $750K for the potential budget deficit. The motion to amend after a lengthy discussion failed by a 1-7-1 (1 for, 1 absent, 7 against removal for the item). The vote on the original resolution passed 7-1-1 (7 for, 1 against, 1 absent)
The recording for Part 1 - Economics of development runs just over 2 hours
The recording for Part 2 - the capital budget runs just under 2 hours
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Franklin TV video for replay -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaC9XFahY1M
The agenda and released documents for this meeting -> https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2089
My notes collected in one PDF -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qRDOyvDbYn1A5DqogXU-4DpgjpwYvRNH/view?usp=drive_link
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Franklin TV schedule for Monday, January 26, 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: Look Back then Move Forward
8:00 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports
9:00 am U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19
11:30 am Cooking Thyme: Lasagna
12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs
12:30 pm Cook with Linda: Broccoli Salad
1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: White Pizza
2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4
3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 10
4:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1
5:30 pm The Circuit Breakers
7:00 pm Frank's Musings: Venezuela
10:00 pm Circle of Friends: Kim Moberg & Jenna Nichols
Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = MONDAY
7:00 am Public School Event: Concert Hour Day 1
8:30 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports
9:30 am Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1
10:30 am FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25
12:00 pm Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band
1:30 pm FHS Varsity Wrestling: v Taunton 01-05-23
3:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball v Sharon 01-23-26
5:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Hockey v Natick 01-19-26
9:00 pm FHSTC: Peter and the Starcatcher
Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = MONDAY
8:00 am Planning Board 01-12-26
10:00 am Finance Committee 01-14-26
2:00 pm Planning Board 01-12-26
Planning Board canceled due to storm
Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Franklin TV: Spreadsheets
Math is Mathin’ – Totally.
by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 01/25/2026
In days of yore, when someone’s stated claims just didn’t make sense we used to say, “ Wait. That just doesn’t add up.”
Today, the street says, “ Yo, that math ain’t mathin’.”
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Enter the spreadsheets. I love Excel. That sounds so – nerdishly geeky. But, it’s true. Why? Because math is truth. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. In a time when our cable funding is slowly shriveling up from cord-cutting, we all need to work and ‘math’ our budgets with sharper pencils. (Sharper – mouse-clicks?)
As Public Access TV folks, we strive to do more with less. Is what we do ‘enough’? The best way to answer that is, “What would our services cost – if we didn’t exist?” Although our media services are free, what’s the fair market rate for what we do?”
So, every year I recreate a standard media services ‘Line Card’. It’s a breakdown of all the gear and labor that goes into a media project – from first idea to final release. I develop a detailed reference ‘Line Card’ as a Menu of our equipment and services. (I’ll have the Two Cameras – with a side of audio, please.) It averages the market rate services from ‘for hire’ media and production companies across the country.
Then the fun begins. I combine and tally services for the types of productions we create. I model studio projects; location projects. Then I tally all the episodes we produce for each program series, school games, civic events, government meetings. It’s our report card. It’s our North Star. It’s – a lot.
In fact, it’s typically 2.3x to 2.6x our income. What does that mean in real numbers?
‘For hire’ media needs a margin of at least 1.8x just to survive. We’re healthy, so far.
Franklin has 33,000 residents. At $18 per capita (and dropping), our annual income is around $594,000. Our ‘fair market’ value total is $1,425,000; 2.4x our income. This is what a performance reality check should look like. The numbers reveal all.
Our math? It’s totally mathin’. It’s not the income that matters. It’s the outcome.
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
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Saturday, January 24, 2026
FHS girls & boys basketball teams top Sharon on Friday, boys in OT (video)
Via Instagram, Franklin TV, and our subscription to HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the Winter sports competition for Franklin High School on Friday, January 23, 2026
Boys Basketball = Sharon, 57 @ Franklin, 59 – Final (OT)
Franklin TV video available for replay - https://www.youtube.com/live/1h7Xo2FZIDc?&t=1618
– Franklin senior Justice Samuels grabbed a defensive rebound and went the length of the court for a layup with 15 seconds to go and the Panthers survived as Sharon’s potential game-winning three hit off the front end of the rim. Freshman Greg Katznelson scored down low to cut the deficit to two and junior Teigan Jones did the same with 20 seconds to go as the Eagles rallied to force the overtime period. Seniors Jack Sullivan, James Crowley, and Ben Scaccia all had a bucket in overtime and sophomore Danny Santos hit a huge three late — just the second triple of the game for the Panthers to make it 57-55. Jones answered down the other end in the paint to tie it up. Franklin flipped a two-point deficit at half (26-24) into a two-point lead going into the fourth, and despite only one field goal in the last eight minutes (9-for-12 from the free throw line) stayed in it. Samuels finished with a season-high 16 points to lead the Panthers while Scaccia had 14 and both Santos and Sullivan chipped in with 10 points. Katznelson scored a game-high 19 points and Jones finished with 12 points for the Eagles.
Girls Basketball = Franklin, 63 @ Sharon, 38 – Final
– Franklin kept its streak going, winning its sixth straight game, and kept hold of its one-game lead in the Kelley-Rex division. The Panthers wasted no time taking control, scoring 20 points in the first quarter and building an 11-point lead. Tessah Rodrigues and Sophia Sacramone got off to good starts, combining for 13 in the first. Franklin kept it going in the second, as Brielle Nicholls scored five and Kaylee Fernandes added four and the Panthers added five more its halftime lead. The Panthers sealed the win with a 16-6 third quarter. Sharon would win the fourth by a point, thanks to eight points from Dharma Trivedi who out-dueled Fernandes (seven points) in the final eight minutes. Fernandes led Franklin with a game-high 15 points and Rodrigues added 14. Trivedi had four threes and scored a team-high 14. Freshman Lila McCarty added 13 points for the Eagles (going 9-of-12 from the line).
Swimming
Franklin @ Milford, 4:00
Gymnastics
Oliver Ames @ Franklin, 7:00
For other results across the Hockomock League (subscription required)
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Friday, January 23, 2026
Franklin TV schedule for Friday, January 23, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = FRIDAY
7:00 am Franklin Art Association: Katie Kindilien
8:30 am Frank's Musings: Venezuela
10:00 am Aging Boldfully: Look Back then Move Forward
11:00 am Senior Connection: Spaghetti Bolognese
12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs
12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Broccoli Salad
1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: Emergency Pizza
2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4
3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 9
3:30 pm U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19
6:00 pm Jon Mitchell & Randy LaRosa: 12-Tone Music
8:00 pm Sons & Daughters of Italy: Italian Immigrants
9:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1
Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = FRIDAY
7:00 am Lifelong Music: Strings School 01-22-25
8:30 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open
9:30 am Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band
11:00 am FHSTC - Flowers for Algernon
2:00 pm FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25
4:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball v Stoughton 01-13-26
8:30 pm Franklin Footlighters: High School Musical Jr.
Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = FRIDAY
8:00 am Zoning Board of Appeals 12-23-25
12:30 pm Police Station Building Committee 01-06-26
2:00 pm Zoning Board of Appeals 12-23-25
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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