Holiday Hours for Franklin Town Offices, Library, Senior Center and Recreation

Town Offices

• Monday, December 24
• Tuesday, December 25
• Tuesday, January 1

Senior Center

• Monday, December 24
• Tuesday, December 25
• Monday, December 31
• Tuesday, January 1

Library

• Monday, December 24
• Tuesday, December 25
• Closing at 5 PM, Monday, December 31
• Tuesday, January 1

Recreation

• Monday, December 24
• Tuesday, December 25
• Tuesday, January 1

Holiday Hours for Franklin Town Offices, Library, Senior Center and Recreation

This was shared from the Town of Franklin page

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/news/holiday_closings_0.pdf

Franklin Art Association January 2, 2019 Meeting

The Franklin Art Association will meet on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street in Franklin.

Refreshments and social time will begin at 6:30 PM, followed by a short business meeting, an art supply swap and jewelry-making clinic led by FAA President, Pam Warren.

FAA meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month, September through May, and are free and open to the public. For more information log on to www.franklinart.org

Franklin Art Association January 2, 2019 Meeting

Tri-County: The TC Insider

The newsletter was shortened for publication here, to view the full contents
https://mailchi.mp/729a3730a282/the-tc-insider?e=a64020e338

December 18, 2018 To the Tri-County Community, As this fall comes to an end we are really looking forward to the winter break. It has been a very busy fall, but a good busy with a lot of accomplishments. A number of successful fall teams have produced several coaches of the year, Ryan Hippert in golf, Steph Caffrey in volleyball, Rick Vernon in boys' soccer and Tony Mazzola in football. It is quite an honor to be named coach of the year and a significant accomplishment for TC to have four of them in one season. Congratulations to all. Superintendent Steve Dockray and the Tri-County School Committee have reached out to the Franklin Police Department (FPD) and partnered with them to help fund an additional School Resource Officer (SRO) for the town. We have shared SRO's with Franklin for some time, but the new agreement will station an SRO at TC for half of each school day and at Franklin schools for the balance of each day. Officer Paul Guarino will be assigned to TC after the holiday break. The FPD has always been very responsive to our needs and we appreciate their partnership with us. Because our students come from so many different communities it has been difficult to build a solid relationship between our students and families and the FPD. We look forward to having Officer Guarino become a part of our community and for having the time to work with our students and faculty every day. Parent-teacher conferences were held on December 6th with over 300 parents visiting our academic teachers. We are grateful for the participation and family involvement. As we move forward into term 2 and the winter season I want to wish all in our community a happy and healthy holiday season.     Work Hard, Today Counts, Mr. Procaccini Upcoming Events Early Release Day December 21 Winter Holiday Vacation December 24 - January 1 Grade 9 Program Information Night January 9 Martin Luther King Day - No School January 21 End of Second Quarter January 25 About The TC Insider The TC Insider is a monthly newsletter for the families of Tri-County students. Forward to a Friend View Email In Browser Tri-County RVTHS 147 Pond Street Franklin, MA 02038 www.tri-county.us 508-528-5400

Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical School District · 147 Pond Street · Franklin, Ma 02038 · USA

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FBRTC: Upcoming Events - a trail walk, annual meeting, and Fundraising

View this email in your browser: https://mailchi.mp/59b41e316e46/2-3394633?e=a29a9f98b7 Franklin and Bellingham Rail Trail Committee Upcoming Events There is plenty going on over the next couple of months with the FBRTC. Check out the events below for more information. We hope to see you at one of the events or on the trail!  SNETT Walk with FBRTC  Thursday, December 27th  11 AM - 12 PM  Center Street trail head in  Bellingham  Join members of the FBRTC for a group   walk on the trail! More info 2019 Annual Meeting  Tuesday, January 8, 2019 7:30 PM  –  9 PM Hockmock YMCA, Franklin  Please join us for our Annual Meeting and get firsthand information on how the trail is shaping up! More info  January FUNdraiser  Pour Richards  Sunday, January 27th  1 PM - 4 PM Join us at Pour Richard's Wine and Spirits for our winter FUNdraiser of beer, wine tasting and great conversations! More info Our mailing address is: Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee PO Box 68 Franklin, Ma 02038

Melanie Hamblen says "Thank you!"

Via Facebook post by Melanie Hamblen:

"This was amazing. Thank you everyone for participating. Together we can stomp out the stigma of addiction and support our community. 

Jen Knight of the SAFE Coalition and I picked out 21 games at Pete's Nerd Emporium Wowza! Thank you Franklin!"

With collaboration among the #ShopFranklin business like this, here is a good reason to visit both establishments (if you haven't already).

Jen Knight of the SAFE Coalition and I picked out 21 games at
Pete's Nerd Emporium Wowza! Thank you Franklin!

close up on the games selected, quite a variety!

The Facebook post can be found
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shopFranklin/permalink/1852416648202180/

The challenge ran from Nov 24 to Dec 8
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/11/charitable-givings-with-petes-and.html

For more information about the work of the SAFE Coalition
http://www.safecoalitionma.org/

Starbucks says "Thanks!"

Hello, 

I wanted to thank you for all your support with our hiring event at the Franklin Starbucks! We had 11 people show and hired 9! So again we thank you. 

I wanted to put it out there we at Starbucks would he happy to provide coffee for our town community events. 

If anything is needed my contact information is below 

Diana Pompeu
Franklin Starbucks Store Manager
774-277-5543

Franklin Starbucks - Hiring Event - was held on Nov 5, 2018

 https://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/10/franklin-starbucks-hiring-event-nov-5.html

FHS girls basketball tops Holy Name 56-36

Via HockomockSports we share the results of the FHS sports action on Monday, Dec 17, 2018


Boys Swimming = Franklin, 64 vs. Bishop Feehan, 106 – Final

Girls Swimming = Franklin, 77 vs. Bishop Feehan, 93 – Final

Girls Basketball = Franklin, 56 vs. Holy Name, 36 – Final

Josh Perry, Managing Editor of HockomockSports.com, provides the game recap:

"Defense has been the story for Franklin through the opening few games of the season with the Panthers holding its first three opponents to only 30 points per game. Much of the attention is on junior center Ali Brigham (two blocks) and her ability (at 6-foot-3) to dominate the paint, but on Monday night against Holy Name (Worcester) it was the perimeter players who stood out. 

Using a combination of players, including sophomore Erin Quaile, senior Shannon Gray, and junior Breanna Atwood, Franklin held Holy Name’s standout guards Jaini Edmonds and Grace O’Gara to just 15 points combined and the Naps to just 13 points as a team in the opening half of a 56-36 victory. 

“That’s been a real focus for us to become a better defensive team,” said Franklin coach John Leighton. “Shooting comes and goes but defense translates every night. They brought a good challenge for us…both lefty guards, which makes it trickier too. We talked a lot about limiting their touches and really make them work for it. They didn’t get a lot of clean looks, which was our goal.”

https://hockomocksports.com/franklin-girls-basketball-clamp-down-on-naps-to-stay-unbeaten/

Click here for a photo gallery from this game.
https://hockomocksports.smugmug.com/2018-2019/Winter-2018-2019/Franklin-Holy-Name-Girls-Basketball-12-17-18/

For other results around the Hockomock League
https://hockomocksports.com/mondays-schedule-scoreboard-12-17-18/

Franklin sophomore Erin Quaile (20) helped lock down the Holy Name guards to earn a non-league
win against a potential playoff opponent. (Josh Perry/HockomockSports.com)