In the News: Medway peaker plant approved; new assistant executive director at MIAA

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:

"The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued its final air quality permits for Exelon's Medway power plant - the last set of state approvals the company sought in its project to expand the facility. 

The department's official sign-off on Exelon's Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit and the Air Quality Plan this week comes after state officials issued a draft approval in October. 

A public hearing regarding both was held last month in Medway. 

Mark Rodgers, a company spokesman, said in a statement Tuesday the DEP's final decision marked an "important milestone" in the project."

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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161220/medway-dep-gives-exelon-final-permit-approval

"Ann Trytko, retired educator and athletic director from Hampshire Regional High School, has joined the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association as a part-time assistant executive director. 

Trytko retired at the end of last school year after a 35-year career in education that started in 1975 as a physical education teacher and concluded this past year as athletic director. She also spent several of these years coaching both middle school and high school varsity sports. 

Trytko remains an active MIAA coaches' education instructor and served several years on the MIAA tournament management and gymnastic committees, as well as the past six years as chair of gymnastics."

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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161220/massachusetts-interscholastic-athletic-association-announces-addition

MIAA App provides the FHS Sports Schedule on your smartphone!

If you want to follow the FHS Panthers boys basketball team, or any other FHS team, you can download the MIAA app to your smart phone and get the season schedule.

I had heard of the app from the Facebook posting by the FHS boys team.



It does install quickly

in the Google Playstore

It is also available for iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/miaa/id987574520?mt=8

Prompts you to select a favorite (FHS was my choice!)

the installed app prompts to select a favorite school

FHS winter sports selected as favorites for now

You can also get the schedules at HockomockSports.Com. This is the source of most of the sports results that I share.

FHS wrestling team finishes 8th at MIAA State D1 meet

The FHS wrestling team competed at the MIAA State meet on Saturday and finished 8th in Division 1. Thanks to Hockomock Sports for posting the results to share.

FHS Panthers

DIVISION 1

Teams
1. Chelmsford – 161
8. Franklin – 67
41. Mansfield – 6
45. Taunton – 1

PLACEMENTS (weight class then finish position)

• 106 = 6. Jordan Carlucci, Franklin
• 113 = 3. Mike Racca, Franklin
• 138 = 7. Dylan Maclean, Franklin
• 220 = 3. John Miller, Franklin

For all the Hockomock wrestling results (Div 2 and Div 3)
http://www.hockomocksports.com/hockomock-wrestling-results-from-miaa-wrestling-state-meets/

Wellness Coordinator of the Year Award - Kristin Cerce

From the Twitterverse:

Kristin Letendre Cerce, Franklin High School teacher and former Wellness Coordinator, received the 2015 Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) Wellness Coordinator of the Year Award on Friday, October 23rd at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, MA. 

Her award was presented by Carolyn Bohmiller of the MIAA and State Representative Jeffrey Roy of Franklin. 

Dozens of FHS students as well as many Franklin school administrators, including Maureen Sabolinski and Peter Light, were in attendance.

Congratulations to Franklin High's Kristin Cerce on being named the MIAA Wellness Coordinator of the year. pic.twitter.com/t5Uz3KAyZ3

— Jeffrey N. Roy (@jeffroy) October 23, 2015

Senior Day for FHS Baseball, Softball teams

Baseball
Attleboro @ Franklin, 3:30

Come out to Dean tomorrow and support the boys on Senior Day against Attleboro at 3:30 pic.twitter.com/Clvcjh8HbV

— Franklin Baseball (@FHSBaseball2015) May 28, 2015

Softball
Franklin @ Attleboro, 3:45

Senior Softball...last "regular season" home game pic.twitter.com/2vn94VVFrL

— Pantherbook (@FranklinHSNews) May 28, 2015

And while we are sharing photos from Twitter, also happened to find this one of the three FHS MIAA Coaches of the Year:

From left to right: Coach Bositis, Coach Geysen, Coach Spillane

Very proud to be here at the MIAA with our three Coach of the Year winners #gopanthers #neverquit pic.twitter.com/SSmxNlpvmw

— FranklinAthletics (@FHSSports) May 28, 2015

The article announcing the three was posted here:
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2015/05/miaa-names-3-fhs-coaches-as-coach-of.html

@RattleCity tweeted: It's official, best fans in the state. Parade and banner ceremony date to be determined #MIAABOTF

From the Twitter feed we find another award for Franklin to celebrate this week. Rattle City, the student cheering section has been recognized as the best in MA by the MIAA

It's official, best fans in the state. Parade and banner ceremony date to be determined #MIAABOTF

— Rattle City ™ (@RattleCity) May 8, 2015

Congrats to @RattleCity and all Panther fans for winning 2015 MIAA "Battle of Fans" contest #neverquit #gopanthers

— FranklinAthletics (@FHSSports) May 8, 2015

Franklin selected by MIAA as the winner of their "Battle of the Fans" contest. #hockomock https://t.co/EUdZg52XdI

— Ryan Lanigan (@R_Lanigan) May 8, 2015

And the video that won for Rattle City:



View the MIAA twitter feed for additional submissions and tweets with the tag #MIAABOTF

You can folllow Franklin Matters on Twitter  https://twitter.com/FranklinMatters

You can follow Rattle City at https://twitter.com/RattleCity

screen grab of Rattle City Twitter profile page

MIAA names 3 FHS Coaches as "Coach of the Year"

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association announced its Coach of the Year award winners for the 2014-2015 school year and five coaches from Hockomock schools were honored. These five, along with all of the other winners, will the be honored at the MIAA Coach of the Year banquet at the end of May. 

The five Hockomock coaches that received the honor were Franklin's Fran Bositis for boys soccer, Franklin's Tom Geysen for girls soccer, Franklin's Chris Spillane for boys ice hockey, Milford's Dave Chaplin for boys swimming and Milford's Linda Zacchilli for boys volleyball. 

Spillane and the Franklin boys hockey team had arguably the best season of all Hockomock teams so far this year. The Panthers were selected to play in a Super 8 play-in game for the first time in program history and were the first Hockomock team to do so. Franklin then beat Xaverian in overtime in the play-in game to make it to the Super 8 tournament. Spillane led the Panthers to a 17-4-3 overall record with three of their losses coming to the three time defending Super 8 champions, Malden Catholic.

Franklin's Tom Geysen was named the MIAA Coach of the Year
for Girls Soccer. (Josh Perry/HockomockSports.com)

Continue reading the full article here
http://www.hockomocksports.com/blog/five-hockomock-coaches-recognized-by-miaa