Franklin Matters

Monday, May 16, 2011

"A company may have better purchasing power"

"What inspired me to kind of get this ball rolling was the thought of a link between healthy and nutritious eating and student performance," said School Committee member Bill Glynn, who leads a nutrition subcommittee that studied the issue. "My biggest concern is how to best serve the children in a cost-effective manner. I want to do our homework and look at as many options as we can."

Glynn said he hopes the School Committee can make a decision in time to implement any changes before school starts in the fall.

Administrators have issued a request for proposals from vendors to manage the food service program. Representatives from Sodexo, Aramark, Whitsons Culinary Group and Chartwells toured school facilities on Thursday. Bids are due by June 1, Business Administrator Miriam Goodman said.

"We felt a vendor might be able to support us more but that remains to be seen because we haven't seen the proposals yet," Goodman said. "Food service has to be a self-sustaining program because any dollars allocated from the budget are dollars that come out of the classroom."

Sunday, May 15, 2011

What's happening to the old Dugout space?

The former Dugout and more recently the Cottage St Pub & Grill went out of business and was demolished recently.

Just before demolition:

Franklin: former Dugout on Cottage/Wachusett

The foundation has been placed now:

Another view of the foundation:

According to the Planing Board agendas and video, a 3 unit condo is going onto the site. You can view the continued hear from Nov 22, 2010 here:

http://view.liveindexer.com/ViewIndexSessionSL.aspx?indexPointSKU=g9kWDClwvOXwcHe3cZHk8Q%3d%3d

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Wanted: Wedding gowns for Franklin museum

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Wanted: Wedding gowns for Franklin museum

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The Franklin Historical Museum is seeking wedding gowns for a display next month.

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE - Saturday/Sunday

ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE

Forge Parkway between Old West Central Street (opposite BJs Warehouse) and new West Central Street will be closed to through traffic from May 14 to May 16. MBCR is replacing the railroad crossing in this area.

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You can help today!

1 - If you want to help with the Community Gardens as they finish filling the beds made last week, you can go to the King St fields this morning.

Additional details can be found here:
http://franklinmatters.blogspot.com/2011/05/king-st-community-garden-build-day-part.html

2 - If you want to help the Franklin Food Pantry process the food and non-food items being collected by the Post Office in their rounds today, you can come by the Food Pantry this afternoon from 2:00 - 6:00 PM

Additional details on the "Help Stamp Out Hunger Drive" can be found here
http://franklinmatters.blogspot.com/2011/05/stamp-out-hunger-may-14.html

Photos from last year's drive:

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What happened Friday?

There were no updates here on Friday due to an outage by Google's Blogger platform. Items were queued to post but they were not posted. I did not have access to make any updates.

The Blogger system managed to keep the site up and available so any visitors here were able to read the posts and follow the links but wouldn't have been able to comment.

For those who also subscribe to the Facebook group, I was able to provide an update there. If you are not yet subscribed on Facebook, you may want to consider joining the group. There tends to be less posts than those shown daily here. There also tends to be more conversation around some of the posts.

If you follow me on Twitter, you would have seen the update:

Blogger will be in read-only mode while we resolve some maintenance issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.http://j.mp/jGNkkr

As I re-read the update, would you have known that Blogger meant Franklin Matters? Probably not. I'll need to do better next time.

The official word from Blogger on what happened can be found here:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html

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"going to have a dramatic impact on the level of services"

Eliminating a circulation desk would have happened regardless of the budget picture, said Town Council Chairman Scott Mason, who noted voters repeatedly rejecting Proposition 2 1/2 overrides has contributed to the current situation.

"It's always unfortunate when people lose their jobs," said Mason, who had not seen the leaflet yesterday afternoon. "In my opinion this comes back to the taxpayers. We have a town to run and a certain amount of money to (use). Are we going to cut police and fire or library workers? We're going to cut library workers."