Fund raiser for Cavossa Family

The Cavossa Family was one of those left out on the sidewalk by the fire last week.

The Franklin Elks are putting together a fund raising event on Saturday, Sep 11 from 7:00 PM until midnight at the Elks on Pond St.

Tickets are $25/person and available at the door. There will be a buffet dinner, music and dancing.

If you hear of any other fund raising efforts for the residents of 125 East Central St. let me know. I'd like to share that information here.

Franklin, MA

In the News - 11 teachers, EPA grant, Chilson Beach

Franklin to hire back 11 teachers

from The Milford Daily News News RSS by Ashley Studley/Daily News staff

$300,000 grant to help towns deal with runoff mandate

from The Milford Daily News News RSS by Ashley Studley/Daily News staff

Teens charged with alcohol possession near Chilson Beach

from The Milford Daily News News RSS by Joe O'Connell/Daily News staff

Franklin, MA

Dean College: President's Cup Golf Tournament

The 14th annual Dean College President’s Cup Golf Tournament is scheduled for Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at the New England Country Club, Bellingham, MA.

Check-in, registration and breakfast begins at 8 a.m. The tournament begins with a shotgun start and scramble format at 9 a.m., and concludes with a luncheon and awards at 2 p.m.

For more information or to register, please contact the Dean College Office of alumni relations at 1-888-711-3326, or go online to https://www.dean.edu/forms/golfregistration.aspx


Franklin, MA

Mark Your Calendar for September 8th

Sent to you by Steve Sherlock via Google Reader:

Press Release! Mark Your Calendar for September 8th

via Growing In Franklin by Franklin Community Gardens on 8/31/10

For Immediate Release:

Franklin Group Plans For New Community Garden

Would you like to be a part of a new Community Garden in Franklin?

Would you like to grow fresh and healthy food?

We are group of new and seasoned gardeners who would like to start a large community garden in Franklin with separate plots available for individuals, families and community groups as well as a "Giving Garden" for the Franklin Food Pantry. This vision is a continuation of the Healthy Futures Harvest Garden Project, started earlier this spring as free-standing raised garden beds placed throughout our community.

Please join us for a planning session Wednesday evening September 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Franklin YMCA Bernon Family Branch, 45 Forge Hill Rd. Now is the time to plan for next spring! No experience is necessary.

Come help us grow our garden dream into homegrown food on your plate!

For more info, contact Lauren at 774-235-2737, email Amy at franklincommunitygardens@gmail.com or read more on the new blog at http://www.franklincommunitygardens.org/

August 31, 2010   -  Contacts:

Lauren Marciszyn, Franklin YMCA, 774-235-2737

Amy Acevedo, committee member, 508-520-7018

Event Date is Wednesday September 8, 2010

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Franklin, MA: School Committee - Agenda - 8/31/10

The School Committee did get their brief agenda posted on the new 'open meeting' window at the Municipal Bldg.

You can find it amongst the other meeting notices also posted there as you approach the door from the parking lot. On the other side of the window is the Town Clerk offices to complete the orientation of where this is.

Oh, and the agenda item of note is:

Discussion Only Items - Budget

Franklin, MA

American consumers ... a 'eureka' moment!

Director of the New America Foundation Energy Policy Initiative, Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy in this TEDx talk:

So the thing about water oil spills is that they are very politically galvanizing. I mean, these pictures -- this is from the Santa Barbara spill. You have these pictures of birds. They really influence people. When the Santa Barbara spill happened in 1969, it formed the environmental movement in its modern form. It started Earth Day. It also put in place the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. Everything that we are really stemmed from this period. I think it's important to kind of look at these pictures of the birds and understand what happens to us. He we are normally; we're standing at the gas pump, and we're feeling kind of helpless. We look at these pictures, and we understand, for the first time, our role in this supply chain. We connect the dots in the supply chain. And we have this kind of -- as voters, we have kind of a "eureka!" moment. This is why these moments of these oil spills are so important. But it's also really important that we don't get distracted by the theater or the morals of it. We actually need to go in and work on the roots of the problem.

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Franklin, MA

Parmenter School: Student drop off/pick up process

The letter to the Parents of the Parmenter School:

Parmenter_ParentLetter_20100826

The drop off/pick up process for Parmenter School during the Wachusett St construction:

ParmenterDropOffProcess_20100830


These were originally posted to the Franklin website:
http://franklinma.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/FranklinMA_News/015E89DE-000F8513
http://franklinma.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/FranklinMA_News/015E8A02-000F8513

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