"Coming Soon!!!Mark your calendars for this fun collaboration with @fspaonline for a Mermaid Story Time.... as they prepare for their big production, we want to show our community support!Feel free to let your little ones dress up in their favorite Mermaid character costume!"
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| Escape Into Fiction coordinates with FSPA for a Mermaid Story Time - Oct 7 |
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| La Cantina Winery: Weekend Entertainment Schedule - Sep 28 - Oct 1 |
What is your top concern about how climate change will effect you, your family, and your community? Are you concerned about the potential impacts of flooding from climate change? Do you think your city/town and/or the state are doing enough to plan for climate change? Take this survey (https://www.crwa.org/crfm-23) to help the Town of Franklin and the Charles River Watershed Association mitigate flood hazards and climate change.
Feel free to also share your survey results with the Franklin Conservation Agent/Natural Resource Protection Manager at bgoodlander@franklinma.gov.
Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation/news/share-your-thoughts-charles-river-flood-model-public-survey
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| Share Your Thoughts - Charles River Flood Model Public Survey |
"In 2002, the then San Francisco supervisor Gavin Newsom proposed legislation to cut welfare assistance to nearly 3,000 homeless people living in the city from $395 a month to $59 a month, and divert the budgetary savings toward shelters and other services. It was promoted with the name “Care Not Cash”.Newsom’s campaign tied the unconditional payments to drug and alcohol abuse. As the San Francisco voter’s guide spelled out: “[H]omeless people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol end up spending their welfare checks on their addictions instead of meeting their basic needs.” The framing worked. The measure passed with nearly 60% of the vote, and Newsom used the publicity to propel his political career to San Francisco mayor and, ultimately, California governor.Newsom’s framing was just a different iteration of an old message: it doesn’t help to give poor people money. As that thinking goes, the unhoused, Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens” and those with substance abuse issues will just waste it.The results of a new study in Vancouver, Canada, test this stereotype. Through its New Leaf Project, the charitable organization Foundations for Social Change gave people who have been homeless for less than two years a one-time deposit of $7,500 in Canadian dollars (about US$5,600). They also received coaching and workshops about spending. Other groups received the money and workshops with no coaching, while some received the training but no cash and no resources at all."
11:00a/2:00p/8:00pm Frank Presents – Frank Falvey Presents
Wednesday, September 27
1:00pm - Senior Scribblers (writing group) (Franklin TV Studio, recording session)
2:00pm - Restaurant Expo (Franklin Public Library)
Thursday, September 28
12:00pm - Adult Flu Clinic (Franklin Senior Center)
5:00pm - Birchwood Bakery: End of Summer - oysters & lobster rolls
6:00pm - Open Mic Night (67 Degrees Brewery)
6:00pm - Brian Cabral (live music) (Raillery Pub)
6:00pm - Charlie Rock (live music) (La Cantina Winery)
Friday, September 29
2:00pm - Franklin Farmers Market (Franklin Town Common)
2:00pm - Thrift Threads thrift shop (Franklin Federated Church)
5:00pm - Papalias Wood Fired Pizza (La Cantina Winery)
6:00pm - Freak Flag (live music)(La Cantina Winery)
Saturday, September 30
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| Harvest Festival (Downtown Franklin) |
7:00am - Town wide, curbside event
9:00am - Friends of the Poor Walk (Franklin Town Common)
10:00am - Franklin Historical Museum (always free)
12:00pm - Harvest Festival (Downtown Franklin)
12:00pm - Jamie Barrett (live music) (Franklin Historical Museum)
2:00pm - Sons of Sam Pizza (67 Degrees Brewery)
3:00pm - Red Apron Charcuterie (La Cantina Winery)
4:00pm - Matt Zajac (live music) (La Cantina Winery)
4:00pm - Michael Rivelis (live music) (Birchwood Bakery)
6:00pm - Sudden Odd Behavior (67 Degrees Brewery)
Sunday, October 1
7:00am - Town wide, curbside event
1:00pm - Franklin Historical Museum (always free)
Monday, October 2
4:00pm - Pumpkin Patch & Sale (St John's Episcopal Church)
Tuesday, October 3
4:00pm - Pumpkin Patch & Sale (St John's Episcopal Church)
6:00pm - Franklin Garden Club - meeting (Franklin Public Library)
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| Franklin Cultural District: Arts are happening here! |
"Hailing it as a historic win for taxpayers, Massachusetts lawmakers will begin voting Wednesday on a $1 billion tax package that would boost tax breaks for families, seniors, and others while slashing state taxes on profits from short-term investments, a change that had divided Democrats.The package would save hundreds of thousands of taxpayers a collective $561 million this fiscal year, according to legislative officials, with expectations that the total savings would eventually climb to just over $1.02 billion once it goes into full effect in fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026.Its emergence follows nearly two years of debate and months of closed-door negotiations about how best to ease the burden on taxpayers squeezed by the state’s rising cost of living and bring the tax code more into line with other states.The House is expected to vote on the measure Wednesday, and the Senate on Thursday, and it is expected to pass and move on to Governor Maura Healey, who has championed the need for tax relief."
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| Senate President Karen E. Spilka and House Speaker Ronald Mariano (right) unveiled the tax relief deal during a press conference in the Senate Reading Room. PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF |
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| Franklin, MA: School Committee - Meeting Agenda - Sep 26, 2023 at 7 PM |
Very hard fought 1-0 win against N. Attleboro‼️G2 to Ava V for her first varsity goal and the only goal‼️ Big next game vs. Canton @ HOME 4:00
Franklin wins in three sets against a talented Lincoln- Sudbury team!FHS JV and Freshman both posted wins as well. https://twitter.com/FHS_VB_Boosters/status/1706813984744050730
Panthers get back on winning track with a huge road win at Heather Hills CC over North Attleborough 152-156Tyler O'Brien & Caden Sullivan both with 36'sCJ Steel, Jack Nelson & Liam Lewandowski each shot 40.Panthers go to 8-1 on the season.
Tough hard fought meet today by the boys team who pulled out ahead of KP 22-33. Top athletes were Pink (1st), Huff (3rd), Scotland (5th), Halter (6th), and J. Diehl (7th). Shout out to KP who gave us a great race and congrats to J. Halter who earned the athlete of the meet! https://twitter.com/FranklinHSXC/status/1706836815322210454
Franklin Girls XC defeats KP 18-42. They were led by the duo of Morrison(1st) and Batla(2), in the 3.03 Mile Race. Other scorers included Baker (4th), Sweeney (5th) and Pruitt (6th). The Franklin Girls’ record is 3-0 in the Hockomock League’s Kelley- Rex Division.
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| FHS Panther sports results shared via subscription to HockomockSports.com |
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| Car seat installations and inspections at New England Chapel - Oct 7 from 10 to 1 PM |
Senator Becca Rausch (D-Needham) will host community town halls this Fall in the Southern, Northern, South Central, and Central regions of her district.
During these town halls, Senator Rausch will provide legislative updates, local and statewide budget victories, and offer residents an opportunity to share their questions, concerns, and challenges.
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| Senator Rausch to host town halls |
Senator Rausch will host four community town halls throughout the district, as follows:
Northern Region
Monday, October 2, 2023, 6 PM
Needham Town Hall, 1471 Highland Ave, Needham
Southern Region
Monday, October 16, 2023, 6 PM
Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill St, Franklin
Central Region
Monday, October 30, 2023, 6 PM
Norfolk Library, 2 Liberty Ln, Norfolk
These town halls are open exclusively to residents of the towns comprising the Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex District: Bellingham, Dover, Franklin, Medfield, Milford, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Sherborn, and Wrentham.
For more information, please visit www.beccarauschma.com/
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| Senator Rausch to host community town halls; Franklin on Oct 16 |
Senator Becca Rausch represents the Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex District, comprised of Bellingham, Dover, Franklin, Medfield, Milford, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Sherborn, and Wrentham. Now in her third term, Senator Rausch serves as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, the Senate Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities, and the Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on the Census.
"Support the Franklin Music Boosters and enjoy some awesome food from Jersey Mike's!
Dine in or take out on Thursday, September 28th from 4-8, and 20% of purchase goes to the Boosters!!!
YUM!!!!!"
Shared from -> https://twitter.com/MusicBoostersFr/status/1706440763502928121
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| Support the Franklin Music Boosters fund raising effort at Jersey Mike's Thursday, Sep 28 |
"A fast-forming and strengthening El Niño climate pattern could peak this winter as one of the most intense ever observed, according to an experimental forecast released Tuesday. The new prediction system suggested it could reach top-tier “super” El Niño strength, a level that in the past has unleashed deadly fires, drought, heat waves, floods and mudslides around the world.This time, El Niño is developing alongside an unprecedented surge in global temperatures that scientists say have increased the likelihood of brutal heat waves and deadly floods of the kind seen in recent weeks."
