Monday, September 12, 2022

Franklin TV and wfpr.fm schedule for Monday, Sep 12, 2022

  • wfpr.fm or 102.9 on the FM dial = Monday

9 AM 12 PM and 6 PM Talkin’ the Blues – Jim Derick & Todd Monjur
2 hours of awesome blues music, info, interviews

11 AM 2 PM and 8 PM A More Perfect Union – Discussing American Politics and Current Events - Peter Fasciano, Dr. Michael Walker Jones, Dr. Natalia Linos, State Rep Jeff Roy, Chris Woolf, and Nick Remissong host a round table discussion on current events and American politics, bringing about thoughtful conversation, compelling discourse, and a look at what the future might hold for the United States

  • Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 26) = MONDAY

7:00 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open
8:00 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports
9:00 am 4th of July 2022: School of Rock
12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Scones
12:30 pm Sandhya: Cupcakes
1:00 pm Cooking Thyme: Ice Cream
1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: Emergency Pizza
2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Fall 2019 Show 2
3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 4
3:30 pm Physician Focus: Too Much Medicine?
4:00 pm Second Sunday Speaker Series: Wolfgang Bauer
7:30 pm Frank Presents: Keith Carreiro
8:30 pm Concerts on the Common: Reminisants

  • Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 96, Verizon 28) = MONDAY

7:00 am Public School Event: FHS Pops Night 05-09-18
10:00 am All-Town Showcase: Band
12:00 pm Public School Event: Jazz Night 01-23-19
2:00 pm SAFE Coalition: Overdose Awareness
3:00 pm ArtWeek: Theater in the Open
5:30 pm FHS Girls Varsity Soccer: v King Philip 09-09-22
7:30 pm FHS PCC: Vaping Forum
9:00 pm FHS Varsity Field Hockey: v Oliver Ames 09-08-22

  • Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 11, Verizon 29) = MONDAY

8:00 am Planning Board: 08-22-22
2:00 pm Planning Board: 08-22-22
7:00 pm Planning Board: LIVE, Chambers, 843 4805 2733

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)

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Dan Rather: 9/11

21 years later  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Dan Rather: 9/11

9/11

21 years later

Photo: Yongyuan Dai
Photo: Yongyuan Dai
9/11    
21 years.    
 We tend to mark major anniversaries. But why should this year be less important?   It isn't.    
And yet I wonder: Is this still a day that stops us in our tracks?     
We will never forget where we were when we heard, when we saw, when we cried.     
But so much has passed between then and now.     
9/11 changed our nation forever.           
But so too have events that followed.                  
History marches in only one direction — forward — in lockstep with our lives.     Still, I am drawn back. I know that it will be so for as long as I am here.    
 That bright, sunny morning — a postcard of a New York day that turned hopelessly dark.     
I smell the smoke.         I hear the screams.              
I see the faces of the perpetually missing in walls of photographs.                    
I touch the void.     I think of the mistakes that preceded 9/11.                                                                       
And the mistakes that followed.    I think of our national goodwill           and how it was squandered.                   
I wonder at a unity                        that has dissipated to acrimony.     
I mourn for those who died that day.         And those who perished in the wars that followed.               
One of which was a misguided war of choice. The folly of Iraq still haunts us.     What if?         What if?               What if?                     
The questions accumulate. We ask despite knowing there are no answers.     
Fate can be cruel. And on that day the cruelty left us all altered.    
I think especially of those who lost friends and loved ones.        
The personal emptiness they have had to face is greater than our collective grief.               
Let us never forget that.     For the rest of us, we lost a sense of invulnerability.         How could our mighty nation be thus attacked?     
Today the vulnerability of terrorism remains.     But it is crowded with a long list of others.     
Our country is precarious.         We feel exposed.               At risk.     And it is not only for us as individuals.         
Our national freedoms,               Our constitutional rights,                     Our public health,                          and the very mechanisms of democratic governance are under threat.                                  
We yearn for stability                                     knowing it will be ever elusive.     But strength and resilience are possible.         We saw that then.             And we can see it now.     
For those of us who were lucky enough to emerge from the tragedy, steady we must be.     Steady.         Steady.               Steady.     
To carry on the memory of those who perished                                                               into the challenges ahead.    
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 On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I recorded some remembrances of that day for a special program on my newsmagazine "Dan Rather Reports." I share a few selections here. The memories are as fresh now as they were then.     

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Franklin.tv: We Just Got One o’ These

It’s Big, Hefty, Fast, Rugged, and Reliable.
Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 9/11/2022

Got data? Yes, we do. Lots of it. Video files are quite large. Need a place to keep them. Lots of them. That’s what happens when you produce hundreds of TV programs a year. Archiving and managing an expanding library of programming requires an expanding amount of data storage. The storage system also has to be very fast to move that video from and to our four digital video editing systems. This is part of all that stuff –racks of it – as the infrastructure that keeps an operation running.

It’s Big, Hefty, Fast, Rugged, and Reliable
It’s Big, Hefty, Fast, Rugged, and Reliable

Twenty years ago (2002) I designed a video-data storage system for TV stations in Boston. That system was a room full of hardware. It cost $1,200,000 bucks. A truckload of gear for a truckload of money. It held only 6 Terabytes. Today that’s just one hard drive – right off the shelf from Best Buy. Thisbox holds 96 Terabytes, 16 times more – a digital truckload of data for only 3percent of the 2002 cost.

Yes, it’s big, hefty, fast – and ruggedly reliable.

Even after these many years that I have been engaged in this brave new digital world, I am dazzled by how rapidly it continues to expand.

And – as always –
Thank you for listening to wfpr●fm. 
And, thank you for watching.

Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online  http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf  

Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm)
Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm)

Town Council Quarterbacking with Chair Tom Mercer - 09/07/22 meeting (audio)

FM #841 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 841 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 Sep 7, 2022


  • ok, what just happened? 

  • What does it mean for Franklin residents and taxpayers?


We cover the following key topics


8. PRESENTATIONS / DISCUSSION

a. Dean College President Kenneth Elmore J.D. and Chancellor Edward M. Augustus, Jr.


b. Discussion: Drought Conditions - Brutus Cantoreggi, DPW Director & Doug Martin, Water/Sewer Superintendent


c. Discussion: Massachusetts State Seal & Motto  ->   https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/8c._state_seal_motto_-_google_docs.pdf

 

9. LEGISLATION FOR ACTION

a. Bylaw Amendment 22-883: Amendment to Water System Map, 2nd Reading (Motion to Approve Bylaw Amendment 22-883 - Majority Roll Call Vote) https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/9a._bylaw_amendment_22-883_water_map_0.pdf


b. Resolution 22-59: Cable Funds in Support of PEG Service and Programming per MGL Ch. 44, §53F3/4 (Motion to Approve Resolution 22-59 - Majority Vote)  https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/9b._22-59_peg_verizon.pdf


c. Resolution 22-60: Gift Acceptance - Veterans’ Services Dept. ($3,289), Senior Center ($250), Franklin Historical Museum ($200) (Motion to Approve Resolution 22-60 - Majority Vote)  https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/uploads/9c._22-60_gift_acceptance.pdf


Our conversation runs about 27 minutes:


Links to the meeting agenda and associated documents released for this meeting are included in the show notes. 


Let’s listen to this session of Town Council Quarterbacking recorded Sep 8, 2022

Audio file -> 
https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-841-town-council-quarterbacking-09-08-22


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Meeting agenda =>    

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/agendas/september_7_2022_town_council_agenda.pdf


My notes -> 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hu5l46PgJoXVhDVRme0VNqgxapTyakZC/view?usp=sharing 


The meeting video is also available for viewing on YouTube

https://youtu.be/2rg4JCAXD-M 


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DPW Director Brutus Cantoreggi & Water Superintendent Doug Martin
DPW Director Brutus Cantoreggi & Water Superintendent Doug Martin

Dean College President Kenneth Elmore J.D. and Chancellor Edward M. Augustus, Jr
Dean College President Kenneth Elmore J.D. and Chancellor Edward M. Augustus, Jr

LiveARTS Musical Magic Concert! Oct 1


Presents

Musical Magic!
Join us for the first concert of the LiveARTS season!
 A live concert featuring the LiveARTS String Quartet, plus
Victor Rosenbaum, piano
Nathan Krishnaswami, tenor
Ann Sears, piano

Music of Britten, Barber, Brahms, Mozart, and
Vaughan Williams.
Sunday, October 2nd

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: First Universalist Society in Franklin,
262 Chestnut St., Franklin MA
Tickets  
 
Adults- $25.00
               Students 18 and under- by donation
 
Tickets available at the door
 
Accessible Parking and Building 
Visit our website liveartsma.org to purchase tickets on-line and for more information.

Copyright © 2022 LiveARTS, Franklin, All rights reserved.

Our mailing address is:
LiveARTS, P.O. Box 678, Franklin, MA 02038

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Attention: Job Opportunities with Town of Franklin, various departments and positions

Job Opportunities

To apply for a vacant position, please submit a resume and cover letter to apply@franklinma.gov.  Please put the job title in the subject line of your email. 

Benefits Coordinator - Human Resources

Patrol Officer - Police Department

Part-Time and Substitute Custodians - Facilities Department 

Junior Custodian - Facilities

Staff Engineer - Department of Public Works

Part-Time Archivist - Franklin Historical Museum 

Part-Time Line Cook and Cafe Assistant - Senior Center

Heavy Motor Equipment Operator - Department of Public Works 

If you do not have a resume, you may send a completed Application for Employment instead.

To receive notifications of all job opportunities in the Town of Franklin, subscribe here .

Shared from ->  https://www.franklinma.gov/human-resources/pages/job-opportunities


Attention: Job Opportunities with Town of Franklin, various departments and positions
Attention: Job Opportunities with Town of Franklin, various departments and positions