Via HockomockSports.com and Twitter, we share the results of the FHS winter sports action on Friday:
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Saturday, January 1, 2022
FHS girls hockey finished tie with Longmeadow 2-2 in OT
Senate President Spilka: From the Bottom of my Heart - Thank You
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Boston Globe: "Massachusetts jobless fund is $115 million in the red"
"After months of delay, the Baker administration chose New Year’s Eve to deliver the news: The state fund that pays jobless benefits has a deficit of about $115 million.Trying to bury bad news just before the weekend or a holiday is standard PR practice for companies and politicians alike. But you know what? Governor Charlie Baker’s team chose a sleepy Friday and last day of the year to release news that is . . . not too bad.It’s no surprise the Massachusetts unemployment insurance trust fund is in the red after the state paid out a total of $22 billion in jobless benefits in 2020 and $11.8 billion in 2021. In 2019, payments ran about $1.6 billion."
"virus traces in the waste water have risen extremely fast over the last three weeks"
"Levels of coronavirus detected in Boston-area waste water have reached new highs, with seven-day averages that shatter previous record-breaking levels.On Dec. 29, the seven-day average of virus traces in the waste water in the southern sample of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s territory was 8,164 RNA copies/mL. That’s up from 2,574 RNA copies/mL on Dec. 23, meaning the average has more than tripled in the last six days.Waste-water testing serves as an early warning sign for a COVID-19 surge. Cambridge-based Biobot Analytics, which tests the waste water coming into MWRA’s Deer Island treatment plant, has said it has found the amount of virus in the waste water is correlated with newly diagnosed coronavirus cases four to 10 days later."
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Test results from MWRA’s pilot study to track waste water at the Deer Island treatment plant for indicators of COVID-19 infection.MASSACHUSETTS WATER RESOURCES AUTHORITY |
Franklin TV and wfpr.fm schedule for Saturday, Jan 1, 2022
- wfpr.fm = Saturday or 102.9 on the FM dial
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 26) = SATURDAY
8:00 am Veterans' Call: Matt Ching Pt. 1
9:00 am Cooking Thyme: Candy Apples
9:30 am Candlepin New Generation: Show 10
10:00 am Once Upon A Town: Ray Block
10:30 am Santa on the Common 2021
11:30 am FHS Varsity Swimming: v Mansfield 12-16-21
1:30 pm FHS Fall Art Show 2021
2:00 pm FHS Girls Varsity Basketball: v Canton 12-14-21
4:00 pm The Drummers Studio: 11th Anniversary Show One
5:30 pm Ben Gardner's Boat
8:30 pm Senior Connection: Cookies
9:30 pm Circle of Friends: Freebo, Alice Howe & Kirsten Maxwell
- Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 96, Verizon 28) = SATURDAY
10:00 am FHS Boys Varsity Hockey: v St. John's Shrewsbury 12-20-21
1:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball: v Attleboro 12-17-21
3:05 pm SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports
4:30 pm FHS Varsity Swimming: v Mansfield 12-16-21
7:30 pm It Takes A Village: Janice Houlihan
8:30 pm ArtWeek: FHS Jazz & Kenny Hadley Band
8:00 am FHS Girls Varsity Basketball: v Canton 12-14-21
10:00 am FHS Boys Varsity Hockey: v St. John's Shrewsbury 12-20-21
1:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball: v Attleboro 12-17-21
3:05 pm SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports
4:30 pm FHS Varsity Swimming: v Mansfield 12-16-21
7:30 pm It Takes A Village: Janice Houlihan
8:30 pm ArtWeek: FHS Jazz & Kenny Hadley Band
Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf
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Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) |
Friday, December 31, 2021
Curbside Program Update - Anticipated delays in pickup today, to be carried over to pick up on Monday
31 December 2021
A map of the affected areas will be posted at the end of the day 1 |
A map of the affected areas will be posted at the end of the day 2 |
Franklin's Event Outlook: Dec 31, 2021 to Jan 6, 2022
The Cultural calendar displays only the cultural events https://www.franklinculture.org/things-do/pages/calendar
Friday, December 31
Day off for New Year's Day
New Year's Eve
6:00pm - Light up Franklin!
Saturday, January 1, 2022
10:00am - Historical Museum (always free)
Sunday, January 2, 2022
1:00pm - Historical Museum (always free)
Find the full calendar https://www.franklinmatters.org/p/blog-page.html
If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication: https://forms.gle/oPdi8X3ZbHHyrHzo6
"May this be the day We come together"
May this be the dayWe come together.Mourning, we come to mend,Withered, we come to weather,Torn, we come to tend,Battered, we come to better.Tethered by this year of yearning,We are learningThat though we weren't ready for this,We have been readied by it.Steadily we vow that no matterHow we are weighed down,We must always pave a way forward.This hope is our door, our portal.Even if we never get back to normal,Someday we can venture beyond it,To leave the known and take the first steps.So let us not return to what was normal,But reach toward what is next.What was cursed, we will cure.What was plagued, we will prove pure.Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;Those moments we missedAre now these moments we make,The moments we meet,And our hearts, once all together beaten,Now all together beat.Come, look up with kindness yet,For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,But to take on tomorrow.We heed this old spirit,In a new day's lyric,In our hearts, we hear it:For auld lang syne, my dear,For auld lang syne.Be bold, sang Time this year,Be bold, sang Time,For when you honor yesterday,Tomorrow ye will find.Know what we've foughtNeed not be forgot nor for none.It defines us, binds us as one,Come over, join this day just begun.For wherever we come together,We will forever overcome.
FHS boys basketball and wrestling teams post wins on Thursday
Via HockomockSports.com and Twitter, we share the results of the FHS winter sports action on Thursday:
– Franklin limited the hosts to just six points in the second quarter, building a double-digit advantage it never relinquished to get the win. Sophomore Henry Digiorgio scored half of his 18 points in the third and earned tournament MVP honors. Senior Sean Vinson scored a career-high 22 points to earn all tournament team honors for the Panthers. Sophomore Sean O’Leary added 13 points in the win. Franklin hit 14 two-point field goals between the second and third quarters to pull away from the Flyers.
Spectacular win over Ashland 58-24.Pins by Carlucci, O’Leary, Owen, Fracassa, Dillon, and Sheridan.
TUNE IT OUT Guitar Classes Resume on Tuesday, January 11, 2022
All veterans are invited. No guitar experience is needed!
** This had been scheduled for 5:30 - 6:30 PM at the Franklin Senior Center. The notice of the resumption doesn't share the time so when you call the Veterans 'Services Office you can confirm.
TUNE IT OUT Guitar Classes Resume on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 |