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| the Spruce Pond Stream is being proposed to be relocated as part of the development |
. . . ConComm doesn’t want anything to do with it until they file. Mark: I always take the position that, if someone requests a waiver from a local ConComm rule, we ought to get what the ConComm thinks. Chairman: Their agent responded that they didn’t want to look at it until they file. . . .Although these minutes have been accepted, I need to go on record that my office has repeatedly indicated that the applicant should be discussing this project with my office. I in fact do “ . . . want to look . . .” just as would happen at a tech review meeting. What must be avoided is compromising the Commission from taking a position before the application is filed.
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| Spruce Pond Brook is proposed to be rerouted for the development |
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| one of several signs in the Peck St, Wachusett St, and Cottage St neighborhood of the proposed development |
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| sign from one of the neighbors |
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| shrubs cut back along Spruce Pond |
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| view 2 - shrubs cut back along Spruce Pond |
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| Before - weeds growing happily |
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| After - weeds drying up |
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| Spruce Pond - lily pad reflections |
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| Franklin Flatbread and Spruce Pond Creamery |
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| reflections on Spruce Pond |
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| reflections on Spruce Pond |
Spruce Pond Creamery owner Marc Bluestein recently commissioned a Franklin High art class to create an exhibit that would fit at his flatbread pizza restaurant and ice cream parlor.
Robin Katz’s painting and printmaking class was up to the challenge: With paint and pizza boxes as palettes, the students created murals inspired by the restaurant’s menu.
"Part of the fun was they weren’t just doing something for our classroom, but the community as well," said Katz. "You should always experience learning outside of the classroom; it makes it more meaningful and relevant."See more at: http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20140215/NEWS/140217108/1994/NEWS#sthash.Wo4T6JJg.dpuf
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| Spruce Pond Creamery as seen from across the pond |
At Spruce Pond Creamery's takeout window, Kenneth Josephson ordered two scoops of maple walnut ice cream, the only flavor he's tried for many years.
"I liked maple walnut when I was young. I still like it," said the retired engineer. "If you like something, why change it?"
That might surprise Marc Bluestein, who opened the combination ice cream parlor and organic pizzeria at 370 King St. in Franklin 11 years ago with his brother Gary.
They've prospered by adapting to new nutritional trends by serving a diverse and healthy menu featuring organic pizza and organic beer and all natural ice cream, which they make on site.
While many ice cream parlors are small specially shops located in a plaza or squeezed between bigger buildings, Spruce Pond Creamery is spacious and has a country ambience with a rear balcony overlooking its namesake pond.
"The only thing I don't have is a pasture with cows," said Bluestein, who has owned two other restaurants in Rhode Island and also worked many years in finance and administration.
The creamery serves about 50 flavors of all-natural homemade ice cream as well as "no fat, no sugar" soft serve yogurt and several varieties of sorbet.Read more about other ice cream places in the area in the Milford Daily News here:
Good food with a quaint pond view setting. Now with a wine and malt license, there is an added incentive to visit for pizza or a panini.