Hockomock Area YMCA: January's Social Action Service Calendar

Brand new! January's Social Action Service Calendar! 

https://t.co/HYiV9ee0lv

Shared from -> https://Twitter.com/HockomockYMCA/status/1745400384246485373

Hockomock Area YMCA: January's Social Action Service Calendar

Franklin Public Library: News & Events for January 2024

January 2024 

Franklin Library News & Events

Library Hours
The Library's hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Library will be closed December 31st and January 1^st & 15^th.

Franklin Public Library's 2024 Reading Challenge!
January Challenge: An author's debut book
Welcome to the Franklin Public Library's first Annual Reading Challenge! For each monthly prompt that you complete and submit on time you will receive a Free Book Coupon that's good at the library's Book Sale. Submissions MUST be submitted by the last day of each month in order to qualify for that month's Free Book Coupon. If you complete all 12 months (again, submissions must be received on time to qualify) you will be entered in to win one of multiple grand prizes! For complete details and to sign-up, visit our website! Grand prizes made possible by the Friends of the Franklin Library.

New Year, New Library Catalog!
We are so excited about the brand new, super user-friendly catalog! Try it out yourself! Go to franklin.minlib.net, click on "sign in" (upper right of the page), and enter your library card and pin number, and start exploring, searching & requesting. We think you'll love it as much as we do!
Questions? Contact the library Reference Desk at 508-520-4941, x4525.

Creativebug announces their new accessibility widget
Creativebug, the online video arts & crafts database, now has a wide variety of screen optimizations for users of all abilities. Once you create an account and log in there will be a red button with a white stick figure in the lower left corner.  Click on that button to make your adjustments.  Find out more about the options available here.  Visit the library's Free Online Databases page to find Creativebug and all of the other great databases available for free through the library.

Museum Passes
Now is a great time to reserve passes to the area's most popular museums, aquariums, and more! Passes are available to be reserved up to thirty days in advance.

Franklin Library Book Sale
Friday, January 19th, 1:00-5:00 p.m.  Saturday January 20^th, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon
All books are just one dollar!
Bag Sale - $5 Fill A Bag, Saturday, January 20^th, from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Come fill a brown bag with all the books you can for only $5.00!

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
In our second year of providing free tax preparation assistance through the VITA IRS program the Franklin Public Library is looking for volunteers! While tax season starts in February; planning, training, and scheduling can begin today! To sign up or to find more information please email Site Coordinator Mitzi Gousie at mgousie@minlib.net!

Franklin Library ESL & Adult Literacy Program
Volunteer tutors needed! To volunteer please be at least 18 years old, have a High School diploma, & speak English clearly.  No prior teaching experience needed!  Volunteer tutors and students do not need to be Franklin residents. If interested, please fill out the registration form on the library's website.

For the full set of January events -> https://www.franklinma.gov/franklin-public-library/news/january-2024-franklin-library-news-events

Franklin Public Library: News & Events for January 2024

Stop at the Franklin Library, find a "Bookish duck" and get an entry for prizes at the end of the month

New Year Duck Hunt!

Bookish Duckies have set up shop throughout the Library! Follow us on our social media channels to get clues to where they might be! When you find a duck bring a picture of it and where you found it to the circulation desk and fill out a quick slip of paper to be entered into the Duck Hunt raffle at the end of the month!

Shared from the Library page ->  https://www.franklinma.gov/franklin-public-library/bulletins/new-year-duck-hunt

Stop at the Franklin Library, find a "Bookish duck" and get an entry for prizes at the end of the month

Franklin.TV: Merry Mid-January?

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 01/09/2022

Now that the holidays and their distracting festivities are in the rear-view it’s time
to face the music. (dramatic soap-opera style organ stinger) Winter is really here.
Pop a Swiss Miss Cocoa pod in the Keurig and break out the mini-marshmallows.

Cozycurl up with your fave creature comforts until Punxsutawney Phil (our fave
creature)says it’s over. All eyes (and hopes) rest on Gobbler’s Knob come Feb 2.
Valentine’s Day?

A blip on the romance radar.

President’s Day and the faux excitement of Fantastic Car Deals?
Mercantile noise.

Merry Mid-January?

I gaze out the window with a wistful longing for
Spring while light snow wafts its hypnotic dance.
It looks postcard perfect – for minutes at a time.
A seductive illusion in the first glimmer of dawn.

Last month’s merry has lost its luster for many.
This is when merry matters more. Resolved For
2022: Keep some merry throughout the Winter
and across the year by rendering small bits of
kindness here and there where possible.

Go on. Engage. Perpetrate frequent, deliberate,
wanton, random acts of kindness.

In so doing, we can make 2022 a wonderful year,
perhaps even in spite of itself.

May 2022 smile warmly, kindly upon us all.

And – as always –
Thank you for listening to wfpr●fm.
And, thank you for watching 

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

Looking back to January 2015

We had some snow in the later part of January 2015 and missed a couple of days of school in what became the 'endless' winter.

• There was much to do about the conversations overheard with the microphones turned up at the Town Council meeting on January 7th. After all was said and done, there was no apology from the Councilors involved.

Jan 7th meeting here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/01/questions-were-raised-answers-sought.html

• The School Committee meeting on Jan 13th was a marked and positive difference. Two FHS seniors were recognized for being in the top of their class. Dillon Scarnicki had his teammates from the FHS hockey team support him for his participation in the Special Education presentation.

School Committee - Jan 13th
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/01/what-marked-difference-for-community.html

• Pond St was rezoned, Emmons St was sold.

Town Council - Jan 21st meeting here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/01/150-emmons-st-sold-pond-st-parcel-re.html

the snow did not keep Ben from reading

More photos from the walk  around Franklin on Saturday, Jan 24
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/01/saturdays-walk-around-franklin-photo.html


Feel free to cruise through all the archives (176 posts) for January 2015
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015_01_01_archive.html