Showing posts with label recreation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recreation. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Master Plan Subcommittees: Land Use & Zoning OR Open Space and Recreation, and Natural, Cultural, and Historic Resources

You have a choice of two Master Plan subcommittee meetings to view or attend on Monday, March 18, 2024.
  • Master Plan-Land Use & Zoning Subcommittee
Event Date:  Monday, March 18, 2024 - 7:00pm

  • Open Space and Recreation, and Natural, Cultural, and Historic Resources (OSRP) Subcommittee
Event Date:  Monday, March 18, 2024 - 7:00pm


And don't forget about the Master Plan Open House at Dean College on Saturday, March 23  https://www.franklinma.gov/master-plan-update-committee/pages/events

Master Plan Subcommittees: Land Use & Zoning OR Open Space and Recreation, and Natural, Cultural, and Historic Resources
Master Plan Subcommittees: Land Use & Zoning OR Open Space and Recreation, and Natural, Cultural, and Historic Resources 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Register for Summer Camp with Franklin Recreation


Summer Camp

Register Today

Join us for fun in the sun!  We enjoy outdoor activities, field trips, arts & crafts, gaga ball, playgrounds and much more at our 5 day camp at King Street Memorial Park.  

Register for Summer Camp
Register for Summer Camp

Our program meets at King Street Memorial Field and begins at 8:30am each day and finishes at 3:30pm.  Early drop off or late pick up is available at an additional cost of $10.00 per day per child.  

CLICK "Return to program" after selecting each week of Summer Camp in order to purchase Early Drop Off or Late Pick Up

King Street Summer Camp Brochure:
For more information about summer camp at King Street Memorial Park, please click on the link above

Meet The Counselors: We are super excited about our Staff this Summer! Read out staff bios before attending camp this Summer. Please click on the link above.

FIELD TRIP LIST:
Week 1: Breezy Picnic & Waterslides
Week 2: Southwick's Zoo
Week 3: Woo Sox Game & Davis Farmland
Week 4: Boundless Adventures & Altitude Trampoline
Week 5: Kimball Farm
Week 6: Roller Kingdom
Week 7: Ryan's Amusements
Week 8: Urban Air Trampoline Park

Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/recreation-department/news/summer-camp

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

NFL Flag Football Clinic scheduled for April school vacation

NFL Flag Football Clinic

April Vacation

NFL Flag Football (April Vacation Clinic)-
Join head coach, Jack Geromini and his staff of FHS athletes as they put together a two day clinic for children ages 5-13 years old over April vacation (April 17 & 18), with a rain date of Friday, April 19. The first day will start with a brief introduction to Flag Football with passing, running, and defensive drills.  The next two days will be loaded with plenty of Flag Football Games.  Kids will be split into age appropriate groups, so they will be guaranteed to be playing with friends and classmates.

DATE:   April 17 & 18 (Raindate April 19)                          Register Now
TIME:    9:00AM-12:00PM
LOCATION:  Beaver Pond Turf Field
FEE:  $50 residents/$60 non residents

NFL Flag Football Clinic scheduled for April school vacation
NFL Flag Football Clinic scheduled for April school vacation

Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/recreation-department/news/nfl-flag-football-clinic


Monday, February 26, 2024

Franklin Recreation: 2024 Summer Camp Brochure

"Good Day Franklin!

This year we have a bunch of different camps running throughout the Summer. Check out our 2024 Summer Camp Brochure
Registration for these camps will open on Friday, March 1st."

Camps Brochure.pdf

Register online at -> https://franklinma.myrec.com/info/default.aspx

Franklin Recreation: 2024 Summer Camp Brochure
Franklin Recreation: 2024 Summer Camp Brochure

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Annual Report Of The Recreation Department: FY 2023 Report

The Recreation Department is located at 275 Beaver Street, Franklin MA 02038. 

The Recreation Department offers Franklin residents a variety of programs and activities for youth and adults, as well as coordination of youth sports organizations field use and facility rental. The department operates and schedules activities for Beaver Pond (beach and turf field), Fletcher Field (baseball fields and courts), Dennis Pisani Softball Field, Henry "Ski" Faenza Playground (Nason Street Tot Lot), King Street Memorial Park, Dacey Community Field, and Meadowlark Lane complex. The department is also responsible for scheduling the use of all school athletic fields for our youth sports organizations. Our department works closely with the various town youth sports organizations and the Athletic Director Karrah Ellis to schedule all youth sports activities around the high school team practices and games. 

The Franklin Recreation Department had a great fiscal year and really expanded their program offerings and participation numbers. From July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 we enrolled 6,635 participants. We have seen larger participation in our summer camp, street hockey, field hockey and pee wee baseball programs.

Recreation Programs Summer Camp
An eight week summer camp was held at King Street Memorial Field from June 27-August 19, 2022. The program hours were Monday-Friday from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm daily. Activities included: organized games, arts and crafts, water inflatables, sports, and weekly field trips. The 8 week camp featured camp shirt tie dye on Tuesdays, field trips on Wednesdays, a giant slip and slide/water slide every Tuesday and Thursday, and Pizza day Fridays. The Franklin Summer Camp Directors this year were Jonathan Geromini and Tim Shannon. The Franklin Summer Camp  staff  included:   Lily  DiGiacomo,  Ryan Angermeier, Jason D'Valentine, Sean Vinson, Derek Terwilliger, Alexis Halet, Benjamin Zia, Brendan Grace, Joey Simone, Tim O'Keefe, Katie Jones, Kendall Jones, Savannah Nosek, Kyle Palmieri, Norah MacCallum, and Jason D'Matteo.

Pre-Season Flag Football Camp led by flag football coordinator, Jack Geromini. The 3 day camp from 9:00 am-12:00 noon helped prepare players for the season with practice time and games.

Chilson Beach
Chilson Beach was open from June 18-August 20, 2022 with a swim at your own risk policy. No lifeguards were on duty. We did have gate guards on duty to check for residency as the beach remains Franklin residents only. The pond was tested weekly by RI Analytical for safe swimming. For information on Chilson Beach and our water testing results, please visit: http://www.franklinma.gov/recreation-department/pages/beaver-pond

At the above website, residents can check the water quality and E-coli levels as we run a water quality check every week to make sure it is safe for swimming.

On the turf field at Beaver Pond, we continue to host soccer, field hockey, flag football, and boy's lacrosse at the youth level. The turf field was used for the Franklin Recreation Department's NFL Flag football, Franklin Youth Soccer, and Franklin Youth Boys Lacrosse, as well as yoga for senior citizens, tai chi, boot camp, and many other recreational activities. At the High School level, we continue to host FHS girls field hockey and FHS Girls Soccer in the fall and FHS Boys Lacrosse in the spring. A portable recycled plastic walkway is on site for handicap accessibility to the water edge and playground area. The turf field was recently resurfaced in 2017.

Youth Basketball Program
The Youth Basketball program now involves over 1,000 children, 122 teams, 218 coaches, and utilizes every school gymnasium in town. The Recreation Department continued its basketball program to include High School aged kids in FY2023. The program has grown to offer this intramural basketball program for the Summer, and Winter seasons. This intramural program gives kids in grades 9-12 a chance to continue playing pick-up basketball on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday nights. The program utilizes school gyms at Horace Mann Middle School, Remington Elementary, J.F. Kennedy School, Keller Sullivan Middle School, Keller Sullivan School and Franklin High School gym. In FY 2023 the youth basketball program ran from November 12 -March 11 on Saturdays. The FYBL is divided into nine divisions: Kindergarten (co-ed), 1st & 2nd Grade Boys, 1st & 2nd Grade Girls, 3rd & 4th Grade Boys, 3rd-5th Grade Girls, 5th & 6th Grade Boys & 6th-8th Grade Girls, 7th & 8th Grade Boys, and High School
 
Intramural division. The K-4th grade leagues are non-competitive learning experiences for the children with the focus on fundamental basketball skills. Grades 5th-8th grade basketball leagues start to teach the kids different rules, zone defense, pressing, and traits of competitive basketball. Ten players are drafted to each team and games are played weekly on Saturdays.

Pee Wee Baseball
The Pee Wee Baseball program is an introductory baseball program for children ages 4-6 years old. It was created in 1999 by Recreation Director, Ryan Jette. Since then, the program has grown to over 280 kids in the spring and summer tee ball program. Taking his lifelong baseball coaching experience coupled with past employment with Major League Baseball International, Ryan created a beginners baseball program that teaches kids the proper techniques of hitting, fielding, base running and throwing. This year, our Pee Wee Baseball program was run by Program Coordinator, Sean Fitzpatrick. We also ran a summer pee wee league for 6 year olds that was popular.

Track and Field
The Recreation Department's track and field program numbers have increased drastically. On top of offering our annual Winter Track and field program to over 100 athletes ranging from Kindergarten to Eighth grade, we are now offering Spring, Fall and Winter track programs. These running programs are coached by Stacey Federico and she also receives help from High School track athletes.

NFL Flag Football
The Recreation Department teamed up with the NFL to bring this non-contact flag football league to kids aged 6-14 years old. 383 kids signed up to play each Tuesday & Thursday evening at the Beaver Pond Turf Field. Reversible NFL game jerseys, playbooks, belt/flag setup and access to the NFL Kids website gives kids the opportunity to follow their favorite player or team. Players learned the fundamentals of throwing, catching, running and teamwork. This program continues to be one of the best programs the Recreation Department runs and it is because of our wonderful program coordinator, Jack Geromini who has been supervising this program for 20 years.
 
Girls Lacrosse
In FY 2023, our 8 teams participated in the Founders League. This league provided excellent competition for our growing players. There were 2 teams at the 1st-2nd grade division. There were 2 teams at the 3rd & 4th Grade division. There were 2 teams at the 5th & 6th Grade level. And there were 2 teams at the 7th & 8th Grade level. All levels play in 8 regular season games. Franklin Girls Lacrosse is one of the largest girls' lacrosse programs in the area.

NHL Street Hockey
This summer, our street hockey program was very popular with over 125 kids and 12 NHL teams represented. We hold a skills clinic for the first four sessions to evaluate the player skills. Then, we break them up into equal teams so that games will be fair and fun for all. Teams play twice a week, Monday and Wednesday 5:00pm-8:00pm. Jack Geromini is the program coordinator with the help of FHS hockey team players. Our Street Hockey program participated at the beautiful Fletcher Field rink located at 51 Peck Street.

Girls Field Hockey
Franklin Recreation offers girls youth field hockey in many formats throughout the year. The fall season runs from the end of August-end of October.. Our Recreation Department actually runs the Commonwealth Field Hockey League with just under 100 teams from all over Massachusetts. Kim Carney, our Program Coordinator organizes the entire league and spends countless hours formulating schedules, rosters, website and coordinating officials for the games. The Kindergarten developmental division is an in-house program featuring practice sessions and some in-house small-sided games. The1st & 2nd grade, 3rd & 4th grade, 5th & 6th and the 7th & 8th grade teams will play in the Commonwealth League with 8 games vs. surrounding towns. 147 girls comprise nine teams from Franklin in the fall. Franklin Recreation also runs the entire league for over 28 towns and 110 teams from around the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We manage the website, create the schedule, organize officials and oversee all the entire league.

The full Recreation Department report can be found in one PDF ->

The full Town of Franklin FY 2023 Annual Report can be found online

Annual Report Of The Recreation Department: FY 2023 Report
Annual Report Of The Recreation Department: FY 2023 Report

Monday, February 12, 2024

Master Plan Cmte & Subcmte Meetings this week: Feb 12 to 15

 

OSRP & NCHR Subcommittee

Event Date: 
 
Monday, February 12, 2024 - 6:00 pm

Master Plan Committee - Public Hearing 1

Monday, January 22, 2024

The Spring 2024 brochure is ready for Franklin Recreation classes & programs

Our Spring 2024 Brochure is HERE!  

Read up on all the classes and programs we are offering this spring and mark your calendar for February 5, 8:30 AM when registration will open on Franklinma.myrec.com.

Link to download the 
Spring 2024 Brochure


Friday, December 15, 2023

5th, 6th & 7th graders, sign up for the Franklin Recreation 3x3 basketball tournament - Dec 29

Calling all young basketballers! 

Save the date: December 29th, 2023! 
 
Get ready for an epic showdown at our Co-ed 3v3 Basketball Tournament for grades 5th-7th! 

Lace up those sneakers and bring your A-game as we hoop it up on the court at Annie Sullivan Middle School! It's time to showcase your skills, make new friends, and have a blast before the year ends! 
  • Date: December 29th, 2023
  • Location: Annie Sullivan Middle School
  • Grades: 5th-7th
  • Format: Co-ed 3v3
Registration is NOW OPEN! Secure your spot by visiting franklinma.myrec.com. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this thrilling tournament!

Shared from ->   https://www.facebook.com/FranklinRecreationDepartment/posts/pfbid0Wx3K2S7CEqwHDCF5jrKqbdLg3Px4T9hXK8zdMg4iVEJgZMFjMH623Qz8uxgsWg8sl?__cft__[0]=AZVKkyYc_r9M9ZTR4KMXDRJTKunju0Ami9aBtMs5_HhusdF0W_h-D41m0vdvlNc6S3hPPEt5jZbq8ydX5p_WUoKw372y_qDceo1HVSLPoCtm-JRmdyuxTQpiezzJXS0BFrmlmz2ybYjw3f6nVEg3eEEs&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R


Thursday, November 30, 2023

Franklin Recreation schedules annual Pizza Party with Santa - Friday, Dec 8

via Franklin Recreation Dept 

"Don't forget to join us next Friday as Santa pays a visit to the Rec Department for a Pizza Party!!! 
We will have crafts, bounce house, face painting and of course pizza! 
Register online at franklinma.myrec.com"

Shared from -> https://www.instagram.com/p/C0O8-VuOKef/

Franklin Recreation schedules annual Pizza Party with Santa - Friday, Dec 8
Franklin Recreation schedules annual Pizza Party with Santa - Friday, Dec 8

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Franklin Recreation: Winter Brochure 2023-2024 available, registrations opens Nov 1

The latest edition of our Winter Brochure is here! 

Check out all of our NEW classes and programs in addition to our old standbys!

Registration will open November 1st at 8:30 AM  

Please reach out with any questions or concerns!

Friday, September 29, 2023

Town Council Quarterbacking session catches up to the Sep 20 meeting and provides a recap (audio)

FM #1068 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1068 in the series. 


This shares my conversation with Town Council Chair Tom Mercer. This is one of a series of conversations meant to provide a recap of the prior Council meeting. Akin to one of the many sports post-game analysis broadcasts we are familiar with in New England,  this would be a discussion focused on the Franklin Town Council meeting of September 20, 2023


  • ok, what just happened? 

  • What does it mean for Franklin residents and taxpayers?


We cover the following key topics

  • Three appointments to individual committees were unanimously approved.  a. Council on Aging - Collette Ferguson  b. Finance Committee - Heather Sanscoucy   c. Municipal Affordable Housing Trust - Kimberly Mu-Chow 

  • Franklin Elks Riders presented a donation of $1k, the Franklin Elks Bingo donated $10k to the Town of Franklin veterans services

  • Council goals review, a long list of accomplishments, a list to be proud of

  • The funds previously allocated for purchase of a new ambulance were authorized to be paid to the vendor to hold the contract and avoid a price increase - Resolution 23-54: Ambulance Transfer & Appropriation

  • The Council discussed and approved placement of the debt exclusion to fund the Franklin portion of the Tri-County RVTHS new building. The question language approved was as follows: 

    • "Shall the Town of Franklin be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bonds issued by the Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical School District to pay costs of designing constructing and equipping a new high school to be located at 147 Pond Street, in Franklin, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto?"

  • The Open Space & Recreation Plan developed over the course of 15 months, muti[;e meetings and 3 public hearings was approved by the Council. IT will be submitted to the State and assuming their acceptance will also be part of the Master Plan Update now underway

  • Town Administrators report provided updates on the migrant housing situation, the demolition delay report and a report on decommissioning a section of Spring Street.


Our conversation runs about 35 minutes. Let’s listen to this session of Town Council Quarterbacking recorded Sep 20, 2023. Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1068-town-council-quarterbacking-09-28-23



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The Franklin TV video is available for replay ->  https://www.youtube.com/live/bF13Dgn_6qs   

Town Council agenda doc -> https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/town_council_agenda_-_sept_20_2023.pdf 

My full set of notes captured via Twitter during the meeting are collected in a single PDF for easier reading  -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1khvMQCoANrW3vZxzRHMYP1pPlrpfAfP4/view?usp=drive_link 

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Town Council Quarterbacking session catches up to the Sep 20 meeting and provides a recap (audio)
Town Council Quarterbacking session catches up to the Sep 20 meeting and provides a recap (audio)

Friday, September 22, 2023

Davis Thayer Reuse Cmte sets 2 dates for open house to walk through; Fri Oct 20, & Sat, Oct 21

The Davis Thayer Reuse Advisory Committee met as scheduled on Tuesday, Sep 19, 2023. The Franklin TV video is available for replay ->    https://www.youtube.com/live/b6POeFNCeYs?si=vSbWKaVhzb2OzTZZ


Quick recap:
  • Recreation could use the space, would likely not need all of it. Concerned about the expense of renovation for the facility. Are outgrowing their Beaver St location and could use more space. Possible to combine with some arts and recreation usage 
  • Police not really interested in building or location (land). Per their initial and unofficial planning, the land is short of what they estimate (only 3.8 via 5 acres), and as has been revealed the building would require significant structural renovation to be used for a station. Much discussion and insights revealed around the comparison of police & fire use of their facilities. Police Building committee on their path to do a Request for a Proposal (RFP) for an Owner Project Manager (OPM), get an architect and start confirming the requirements, etc. Per state building process, the OPM is critical and really "owns' the process of determining the outcomes (coordinating with the Town and committee of course).
  • Housing uses were briefly touched upon. While arts & cultural uses were mentioned, no one spoke to this during the session.
  • Much discussion around the clean out to prepare for the open house/walk through and insistence of some to make some of the stuff (i.e. mostly junk) available for "the community" to go and pick if they want. Still to be worked out. The dates for the walk through were set as Friday, Oct 20 from 2 to 5 PM and Saturday, Oct 21 from 10 to 2 PM
My notes can be found in one PDF ->

Monday, September 18, 2023

Davis Thayer Reuse Advisory Subcommittee - Agenda for Sep 19, 2023 meeting at 7 PM

Davis Thayer Reuse Advisory Subcommittee 
Agenda & Meeting Packet
September 19, 2023 at 7:00 PM

Meeting will be held at the Municipal Building
2nd floor, Council Chambers 355 East Central Street 

Agenda:

1. Discuss potential future uses
a. Arts and recreation center
b. Police station
c. Various housing options
2. Davis-Thayer Cleanout project update

3. Discuss open house dates

4. Adjourn

Agenda doc also includes remote participation info

Davis Thayer Reuse Advisory Subcommittee - Agenda for Sep 19, 2023 meeting at 7 PM
Davis Thayer Reuse Advisory Subcommittee - Agenda for Sep 19, 2023 meeting at 7 PM