Agenda for First Meeting of the newly elected Franklin (MA) Town Council - Nov 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Franklin Town Council 

Agenda & Meeting Packet 

November 12, 2025 6:00 PM 

Meeting will be held at the Franklin Municipal Building

355 East Central Street - 2nd Floor, Council Chambers

Link to the agenda doc PDF ->   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knfNyfDKUUgHkLWqCG1S0DTaLVItwT8L/view?usp=sharing

 

Agenda for First Meeting of the newly elected Franklin (MA)
Town Council - Nov 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Audio recording of the Franklin (MA) Board of Health Mtg - Nov 5, 2025 (audio)

FM #1576 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1576 the series. 

This session of the radio show shares the Town of Franklin Board of Health Meeting held on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. The meeting agenda was held in the 3rd floor training room as well as via Google Meet. All 3 board members were present. 

Quick Recap:

• Current chair Jeff Harris opens meeting

• Reads protocol statement re: Google meet

• Welcomes new member Diane Daddario

• Approval of minutes, June 4 moved, second, passes 2-0-1 (1 abstain)

• July 23 moved also by 2-0-1 (1 abstain)

• Reorganization

• Motion to make Kim as chair passes, Jeff as vice chair, passes 3-0 for both

• Tobacco control agent appt required. 

• Motion to make MHOA, second, passes 3-0

• Discussion on tobacco regulations, need to adjust the Franklin regs to along with State changes;

• C Liberty offers to provide info on neighboring communities and how they handle it

• Issue with the difference between tobacco vs other retail store opportunities, could affect their market

• Issue with menthol cigarettes prohibited in MA, folks traveling to RI to purchase

• Next meeting to review again, decision likely in Dec, public hearing to be scheduled in January

• Motion to adjourn passes, 3-0

The meeting runs about 38 minutes. Let’s listen to the Board of Health meeting November 5, 2025.

Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1576-franklin-ma-board-of-health-mtg-11-05-25/

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The Board of Health agenda can be found ->

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-1990 

My notes captured in one PDF -> 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CkWYFXT-obacJrhnXt8jOb8auxYKb0zW/view?usp=drive_link 

Audio recording of the Franklin (MA)
Board of Health Mtg - Nov 5, 2025 (audio)

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FHS boys soccer playoff run ends in Framingham on Saturday 1-2 in OT

Via Twitter, Franklin TV, and our subscription to HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the Fall sports competition for Franklin High School on Saturday, November 8, 2025

Boys Soccer = Division 1 = #22 Franklin, 1 @ #6 Framingham, 2 – Final (OT)

Franklin TV video is available for replay ->  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNsIesLrv4

For other results across the Hockomock League (subscription required) 

https://hockomocksports.com/saturdays-schedule-scoreboard-11-08-25/

FHS Panther sports results shared via Twitter & subscription to HockomockSports.com

Franklin High School Cross Country Results for MIAA Division 1A Cross Country Championship on Nov 8, 2025

MIAA Division 1A-1B-1C Cross Country Championship on Nov 8, 2025

Wrentham Developmental Center

Results filtered for  -> Franklin High School

Boys 5000m Varsity Division 1A

47 Kyle Twomey 16:59.50 IQ • +47pts • #827 • Yr: 11

63 Adam Peng 17:21.20 +63pts • #823 • Yr: 12

84 Tyler Anderson 17:56.10 +84pts • #818 • Yr: 12

86 Nicholas Mitchell 17:57.50 +86pts • #820 • Yr: 11

95 Sawyer Laing     18:04.50 +94pts • #819 • Yr: 10

103 Tucker Morin 18:14.40 +102pts • #821 • Yr: 12

107 Ethan Riley 18:18.90 +106pts • #824 • Yr: 11

FHS Boys varsity at MIAA D1 Championships

Girls 5000m Varsity Division 1A

35 Victoria Courtright-Lim 20:21.80 IQ • +34pts • #198 • Yr: 12

48 Annabelle Santiago     20:54.40 +47pts • #206 • Yr: 11

100 Violet Copeland 22:50.90 +97pts • #197 • Yr: 10

112 Sasha Ignatova 23:21.20 +109pts • #201 • Yr: 9

117 Neve Morrison 23:35.80 +114pts • #203 • Yr: 9

119 Keelan Donnelly 23:40.20 +116pts • #199 • Yr: 10

126 Abigail Liang 24:58.80 +122pts • #202 • Yr: 9

FHS Girls varsity at MIAA D1 Championships

Franklin High School
Cross Country Results

FHS results -> https://lasttimeout.anet.live/meets/58242/teams/1385014 

Complete meet results -> https://lasttimeout.anet.live/meets/58242 

IQ = Individual qualified for the State meet

TQ = Team Qualified

Download a PDF copy of the FHS results ->

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAu5jCFHq28Ix5kj4J4db6agIisXwucY/view?usp=drive_link

Franklin TV: The Synthespians Are Coming !

And Hollywood is – Totally – Freaking – Out.

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 11/09/2025

Synthespian? Sounds like a strange other-worldly being from a far away planet. Not so. Synthespians are home-grown – by computers. They’re synthetic thespians; actors, created via artificial intelligence systems. You describe the physical traits, characteristics, mannerisms, behaviors and such that define your synthespian’s looks and personality, crunch that data, and digital voila – out s/he pops – in fulgent, totally ready-to-perform form. Background extras – aka ‘Phillip Space’? Digital extras have roamed the background for years. Now they’re ready for their close-up.

Tilly Norwood

Such is the creation of Tilly Norwood; a synthetic thespian entity – a ‘digital actor’ created by Eline Van der Velden at Particle 6. Tilly made her debut in late September at the Zurich Film Festival. Reactions?

If you’re talent, or any number of other production craft positions from the director of photography to the set painters and production assistants –Tilly Norwood represents Artificial Armaggedon. Hollywood’s hyper-reactive fury is raging like a California wildfire, anticipating a scorched Earth future for the industry.

Many Hollywood creatives have their heads in the sand on this. They wail and moan about genuine human emoting, character development, the humanity that visionary directors and ‘A’ list actors bring to the screen – and so on. However, if you’re a movie studio, what’s not to like? Tilly might well be a studio’s dream ‘talent’. She is infinitely accommodating and always at the ready, absent any off-stage drama, histrionics or guile ( – unless the script calls for that). She is as pure as the driven snow ( – if the script calls for that).

My point? We have seen this movie before. Literally – in 1995. Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ was the first CGI feature-length animation – 30 years ago.. Then as now, the backbone of every Pixar and Disney animation since Toy Story has been precisely about that – Story. The technology wasn’t the star. The story was, and every story well-told is dripping with humanity, pathos, soul, wit, trauma, redemption, and on.

So, where is all this going? Extract Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Micky, Minnie, et al. Insert Tilly. The modern animation studio has 3 successful decades of refining story, preproduction and so on. The CGI production pipeline is mature and ready. Working with Tilly and other (studio created and owned) digital entities who will surely follow will be just another data at the office. In a mere handful of years the difference between a CGI animations and blockbuster features will be –

They call it Tilly Norwood

Another key point: There are already several AI services that will gladly ‘rent’ their ‘Tilly equivalents’ as directable avatars. Because they have been trained by movies to move and speak like humans do in movies, they have ‘life experience’ and can ‘act’. They say what you want ‘em to say and move how you want ‘em to move. Like the fella sed – they can walk and chew gum at the same time ( – if the script calls for that). They are digital virtual spokespeople – able spokes-folks for hire.

Are we at Franklin.TV interested? Yes. Exploring? Yes. Working with? Not quite yet, but perhaps sooner than later.

And – as always –

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