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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Breaking the downward cycle

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"In Franklin, you basically have a one-in-four chance of not making it through high school. That's a pretty scary statistic," ...

Summer Art Institute

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The Summer Art Institute conducted by Lifelong Learning held a brief open house to showcase the student works. Quite impressive! The pictur...

Computer Recycling Event in Warwick, RI

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If you have an old computer, monitor or keyboard that you'd like to recycle, you can drive down to Warwick, RI and watch the recyclers i...
Friday, July 24, 2009

NE Real Estate Journal features Franklin

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As mentioned during the Town Council meeting of 7/15/09 , the Planning and Community Development Dept worked to get a nice spread on Frankli...

Farmers Market - Noon to 6:00 PM

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The Farmers Market will be open today from noon to 6:00 PM on the Town Common. This is your weekly opportunity to help the local economy and...

"dropped in rank, from 22nd lowest, to 28th lowest"

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In 2008, Franklin's rank jumped to seventh highest, with the average Franklin teacher's salary at $66,361, compared with the total a...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Trail meeting in Blackstone

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Someday, wouldn't it be nice be able to bike from Franklin to Providence, or Worcester or to Western Mass without having to deal with th...

Cafe Dolce's coffee source spotlighted

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The idea behind stimulating one small business is that the company will then buy more things wholesale and help other companies and their em...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Downtown Partnership and Chamber of Commerce on LinkedIn

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I have mentioned previously that I have joined the Franklin Downtown Partnership and the United Regional Chamber of Commerce in an effort ...

School Committee Mtg 07/21/09

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The collection of live reporting from the School Committee meeting held on July 21, 2009 are found here: Live reporting - closing items ...

Franklin School Position Reductions

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The total number of position reductions for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 from the Franklin School Dept through layoffs is 12 per the School Com...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Live reporting - closing items

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Cafasso - can we have an update on enrollment in August? Sabolinski - the principals will be back, we'll look to do that for the meeting...

Live reporting - Superintendents report

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Sabolinski - It has been rather busy since the students have left. It feels like school hasn't really ended. There will be a whole new f...

Live reporting - Action Items

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4. Action Items a. I recommend acceptance of a check for $102.88 from the Franklin Music Boosters for a nurse for a field trip for the Middl...

Live reporting - FHS facility review submitted

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The Town submitted the documents today to the MSBA. The next step is to get the feasibility study signed off on by the MSBA. Then hiring and...

Live reporting - FY 2010 update

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53 million was needed as level service, that number never changed. The other number that never changed was the number we could expect from t...

Live reporting - FHS update - part 5

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Communications I have tried to be open about why decisions are made. I have an online newsletter that people can access regularly. You can f...

Live reporting - FHS update - Part 4

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The Senior Class gift along with some money from the Athletic Dept is to bring some flat screens into the building to have a rolling show of...