Franklin, MA: Affordable Housing Lottery

There is an Affordable Housing Lottery coming up for units in 55+ housing at Meadowbrook Heights

Details contained here:

The lottery application can be found here:
http://franklinma.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/FranklinMA_News/0183E268-000F8513.1/Affordable%20Housing%20App%20Fina%2011-22-11l.pdf

Note email subscribers will need to click through to Franklin Matters to view the document

Wadsworth Diary - Feb 3, 1858

Very Pleasant & Warm Went to meeting al day. Rev.J. Thayer preached. Olive Sayles & Mrs. Carlton were taken into church. It was communion, no meeting this eve. There was notice given that there would not be any regular service in fournoon.
Written upside down: but prayer meeting instead at (?) commencing next Sabbath. Sarah stayed at home.

In the 1850s, on a busy working farm in the southern part of Franklin, a man named George Wadsworth started writing in a journal about everyday events. When he filled that journal, he bought another, and filled that up too. Two dozen journals, and 27 years later, he had written about almost everything that can happen in a small New England town. His words were lost to history until 1986, when town resident Gail Lembo came across some of the journals at a yard sale. 


From the Franklin Historical Museum website
http://www.franklinhistoricalmuseum.com/p/wadsworth-diaries_30.html   



Note: The vote to continue was close but positive for continuing: 13 for, 10 against. The diary skips Feb 1892 and picks up again in April. What I have done to keep with the February period is go back to one of the earlier years in the diary, 1858.  

School Building Committee presentation

The presentation slides as shown during the Town Council meeting on Wed Feb, 1 2012

I have already seen several of the design photos (and have shared them here) so the part of the presentation that really caught my interest were slides 6 and 7 where the Jim Jordan described the design features of the Ray Memorial Library building and then showed how they incorporated them into the new building.

The dollars and important facts around the project begin with slide 10 and clcse with the tax rate details on slide 13.

Slide 1

New FHS Slide 1

Slide 2

New FHS Slide 2

Slide 3

New FHS Slide 3

Slide 4

New FHS Slide 4

Slide 5

New FHS Slide 5

Slide 6

New FHS Slide 6

Slide 7

New FHS Slide 7

Slide 8

New FHS Slide 8

Slide 9

New FHS Slide 9

Slide 10

New FHS Slide 10

Slide 11

New FHS Slide 11

Slide 12

New FHS - Slide 12

Slide 13

New FHS Slide 13

Franklin saves money by refinancing bonds

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Franklin saves money by refinancing bonds

via The Milford Daily News News RSS by Alison McCall/Daily News staff on 2/2/12

Thanks to lower interest rates, the town is saving money by refinancing old bonds.

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Additional information from the Town Council meeting on Wed Feb 1, 2012 can be found here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2012/02/town-council-020112.html

Franklin students to show art at Patriot Place

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Franklin students to show art at Patriot Place

via Wicked Local Franklin News RSS by Heather McCarron/STAFF WRITER on 2/2/12

Two Franklin High School seniors are getting a practicum in the world of event planning and art exhibitions, working with the Artist's Studio and Gallery at Patriot Place to share their peers' creations there.

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Wadsworth Diary - Feb 2, 1858

Very Pleasant & Warm, some clowdy in afternoon. Went to Mrs. Frosts after the clothes. Split & got in some wood. Took care of the bees, we thought were dead. They got quite lively. Put up 10 bushl of my potatoes (Davis seedlings) for Clary & c & c. Went to Lycium in eve. Haid full house. Question was, Resolved that the power of Eloquence is grater than the power of Wealth. Decided in the Negative.

In the 1850s, on a busy working farm in the southern part of Franklin, a man named George Wadsworth started writing in a journal about everyday events. When he filled that journal, he bought another, and filled that up too. Two dozen journals, and 27 years later, he had written about almost everything that can happen in a small New England town. His words were lost to history until 1986, when town resident Gail Lembo came across some of the journals at a yard sale. 


From the Franklin Historical Museum website
http://www.franklinhistoricalmuseum.com/p/wadsworth-diaries_30.html   




Note: The vote to continue was close but positive for continuing: 13 for, 10 against. The diary skips Feb 1892 and picks up again in April. What I have done to keep with the February period is go back to one of the earlier years in the diary, 1858. 

Town Council - 02/01/12

The collection of posts reported live from the Town Council meeting on Feb 1, 2012

• Live reporting - closing
• Live reporting - action items
• Live reporting - School Building Committee Q & A
• Live reporting - School Building Committee present...
• Live reporting - License transactions
• Live reporting - Town Council - 2/1/12

Town Council Chair Bob Vallee missed the meeting but sent in a letter to the editor to the paper which was read during the meeting by acting Chair Tina Powderly

Vallee: Build a new high school for Franklin

by GateHouse Media, Inc.