FHS Jazz Performance Schedule

From the Pantherbook we find info about the Jazz concert held Wednesday night at FHS:

"If you enjoy this concert, or aren’t able to attend, there are many upcoming events like the Jazz Cafe on February 8th here at the high school, which also involves the middle schools. There are also some festivals in March, and on April 1 there is an event with the United States Jazz Ambassadors. 

For a music event with the whole town later in the year, come see the Franklin High School band accompany Kenny Hadley’s Big Band at the Black Box on April 30th. "

Read the full article at Pantherbook:
https://franklinpanthers.us/top-stories/2019/01/23/swing-into-semester-2-with-a-jazz-concert/

And a teaser of their performance

Franklin DPW: Catch Basin Clearing

Catch Basin Clearing

Crews are out working hard to clear as many catch basins as possible before the rain arrives! 

If you're curious to see if you have a catch basin nearby, check out this web map to find it. Simply enter your address to zoom to your neighborhood.

Snow Operations Map
http://townoffranklin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=338afb647d7d4c9fbba717b6c602d381


Shared from
https://www.franklinma.gov/home/news/catch-basin-clearing

Franklin DPW: Catch Basin Clearing

a frosted and clear storm drain before the snow arrived

Franklin Garden Club: “Gardening for Butterflies and Other Pollinators” - Feb 5

“Gardening for Butterflies and Other Pollinators” will be the focus of the Tuesday, February 5, meeting of the Franklin Garden Club, which is a joint meeting with the Medway Garden Club. 

The meeting will take place at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 7:00 – 9:00 PM with a social time from 6:30 – 7:00 PM. The meeting is open to the public, including those interested in becoming a club member.

Stephanie Markham, who has established several butterfly gardens, will focus on the importance of butterflies for our environment and how to support them and other pollinators throughout their life cycle in private and community gardens. Butterflies assist in the process of cross pollination. A total of 75% of the world’s flowering plants and 35% of our food crops depend on pollinators to reproduce. 

Today, Monarch butterflies and many other pollinators are decreasing because of the loss of their native habitats and a shrinking supply of the plants they rely on for food and nurseries. During her presentation, Markham will show how creating a garden environment that attracts butterflies provides a habitat for a variety of beneficial insects, birds, bees and other wildlife, helping both ourselves and our environment.

Markham, an officer in the Norfolk Garden Club, co-chairs the club’s butterfly garden committee, which establishes and maintains several butterfly gardens around Norfolk, including the one at the Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, which was restored after many years of neglect with the help of a grant from the Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association. 

Markham has been gardening and breeding perennials and award-winning irises for more than 35 years. She is also a beekeeper, a garden and exhibition judge, an officer in several local and national iris societies, and a writer and presenter on various gardening topics.

The Franklin Garden Club, founded in 1987, is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.

Franklin Garden Club: “Gardening for Butterflies and Other Pollinators” - Feb 5

Tri-County Regional Awarded $123,115 in Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant

Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School is pleased to announce it has been awarded $123,115 from the 2019 Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant to expand its Metal Fabrication program. The grant will allow integration opportunities between the Engineering and Metal Fabrication career programs.

The Skills Capital Grant Program awards grants to support vocational/technical training, upgrades and expansion of career technical education, and training of high-quality career pathway programs that are aligned with regional economic and workforce development priorities for in-demand industries.

Tri-County was among 31 educational institutions in Massachusetts that were recently awarded workforce skills capital grants enabling the schools to acquire the newest technologies to educate students and expand programs. Skills Capital Grants, which are administered through Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito's office, are designed to help high schools, colleges and other educational institutions invest in the most up-to-date training equipment to give their students an advantage when they continue in their chosen field or particular area of study. The awards cover a broad range of fields, from construction and engineering to healthcare and hospitality.

Tri-County will boost enrollment capacity in its Metal Fabrication program and enhance hands-on technical instruction to provide students with the knowledge needed for manufacturing jobs in the region. Funding will upgrade the training facilities with industry-standard equipment and give students access to a power roll, an ironworker, an industrial sanding belt, and two virtual welders. The program will support adult students enrolled in evening training courses, offered in collaboration with the region's MassHire board.

"Skills Capital Grants impact the education of thousands of young people across the Commonwealth and give them new opportunities and skills for a successful future," Baker said. "We are proud of the 10,000 new seats that have been added to these programs across Massachusetts and we look forward to continuing our work with schools and teachers to give more students the experience and knowledge that employers demand."

"The funding we have received from this Skills Capital Grant will be vital to expanding our Metal Fabrication program and will give more students the experience and skill set that employers demand," said Superintendent Stephen Dockray. "We are grateful and honored to have been awarded this grant by the Baker-Polito administration and are looking forward to seeing our students graduate with the competitive edge needed to compete for exciting career opportunities."

Tri-County RVTHS, located at 147 Pond Street in Franklin, is a recipient of the High Schools That Work Gold Achievement Award and serves the communities of Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Plainville, Seekonk, Sherborn, Walpole, and Wrentham.

 left-right are:  Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kenneal, Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School Metal Fabrication Instructor Robert Pierangeli, Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School Vocational Director Cathy Rebelo, Governor Charlie Baker

2nd Annual Legislative Forum on Education - Feb 5

"The Franklin School Committee will hold its 2nd Annual Legislative Forum on Education on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 7-8:30 PM, in the lecture hall at Franklin High School, 218 Oak St., Franklin. 

The event, hosted by the Public Schools Advocacy Sub-Committee of the Franklin School Committee, will feature Senate President Karen Spilka, and state Rep. Jeffrey Roy. 

Join these elected officials for a discussion as they provide updates and insights on legislative initiatives directly impacting public schools in general and Franklin in particular. 

For this year’s forum, the organizers have expanded the focus to include issues beyond funding, including:

• Developmentally appropriate practices (such as recess and start times);
• addressing the physical, emotional and social needs of students;
• college, career and civic readiness;
• impacts of the current funding formula on the FY 2020 budget and beyond, and 
• special education and associated costs."

Continue reading the article online 
http://franklin.wickedlocal.com/news/20190122/franklin-school-board-to-host-legislative-forum

• Live reporting from the Forum in 2018

http://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/02/live-reporting-legislative-forum-feb-13.html

• The audio of the Forum was published previously

http://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/02/fm-139-legislative-forum-on-school.html

• Announcement of the Forum

http://www.franklinmatters.org/2018/02/franklin-school-committee-legislative.html


The video of the 2018 Legislative Forum

Jennifer Knight of SAFE Coalition tying some comments and points
together at the end of the 2018 Legislative Forum

Both FHS girls and boys basketball teams top Foxboro

Via HockomockSports, we share the results of the FHS sports action on Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019

Boys Basketball = Foxboro, 37 @ Franklin, 61 – Final
– Franklin raced out to a 13-0 start but Foxboro battled back to make it a six-point game (29-23) at half. But the Panthers dominated the third quarter, outscoring the visitors 23-5 in the frame and allowed a total of 14 points in the second half to earn the win. Franklin senior Will Harvey had a career-high 15 points while Jalen Samuels and Thomas Gasbarro each added eight points. Foxboro sophomore Kevin Gallagher scored a team-high eight points.

Girls Basketball = Franklin, 52 @ Foxboro, 40 – Final
Josh Perry,Managing Editor of HockomockSports.com, provides the game recap:

"Coming into Tuesday night’s showdown, Foxboro and Franklin were both unbeaten (8-0) in Hockomock play and were the league’s top two scoring teams, its top two defensive teams, its two division leaders, and boasted the league’s top two scorers. 

It was clearly a battle of the top two teams in the Hock and it was a battle that was dominated by the Hock’s top scorer, Ali Brigham. The 6-foot-3 junior center scored 27 points, pulled down 15 rebounds, and blocked six shots, controlling the paint on both ends of the court to help Franklin remain unbeaten with a 52-40 victory. 

“She’s frustrated because she thought that she could’ve played better,” Franklin coach John Leighton joked when asked about Brigham’s performance night-in, night-out. “It’s great coaching a kid that wants to become better. She’s not complacent. She’s not close to the player that she wants to be, yet. She keeps expanding her game.” 

Franklin’s win ended Foxboro’s 26-game win streak and 33-game league win streak."

Continue reading the game recap
https://hockomocksports.com/brigham-dominates-as-franklin-girls-basketball-ends-foxboro-win-streak/

Click here for a photo gallery from this game.
https://hockomocksports.smugmug.com/2018-2019/Winter-2018-2019/Foxboro-Franklin-Girls-Basketball-1-22-19/

For other results around the Hockomock League
https://hockomocksports.com/tuesdays-schedule-scoreboard-01-22-19/

Franklin junior center Ali Brigham put up monster numbers (27 points, 15 rebounds, and six blocks) to end Foxboro’s 26-game unbeaten run and keep the Panthers unbeaten in league play this season. (Josh Perry/HockomockSports.com)

Tri-County: The TC Insider

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January 21, 2019 To the Tri-County Community, Sure signs of the midway point of the school year at TC are Senior Projects in full swing, a lack of gym space for winter teams, and our robotics team starting to get organized for their annual competitions. All of those things began in earnest last week. Senior projects got underway with Graphic Communications and Engineering kicking it off this year. I had the pleasure of judging Engineering projects this morning and as always I was impressed with the quality and ingenuity of our students. Our winter sports are in mid-season with five basketball teams, the wrestling team, and an indoor track team all competing for practice space. The robotics team is busy organizing a new space and preparing for this year's challenge. Mr. Pierangeli and the Metal Fabrication seniors received a visit from the Massachusetts State Police. The Metal Fabrication shop designed and fabricated 16 one-man door rams for state and local police. These devices are designed to replace the heavier ones that require a team to operate and can be carried in a police vehicle. Fox 25 news was on hand to report on the devices. Lastly, the other sure sign of mid-year is the freshmen participating in their last shop exploratory this week and the selection of their shop program. The entire school year to date has led to this one final week where scores will be compiled and choices will be made. It is an annual rite of passage here at TC where our freshmen take their place in one of our vocational programs. Thanks for your support,    Work Hard, Today Counts, Mr. Procaccini  Upcoming Events End of 2nd Quarter January 25 The Children's Center Registration & Open House February 7 from 12:15-1:45 PM The Children's Center Registration & Open House February 8 from 9-10:30 AM Early Release Day February 8 Winter Vacation February 18-22 Early Release Day March 4 About The TC Insider The TC Insider is a biweekly newsletter for the families of Tri-County students. View Email In Browser Tri-County RVTHS 147 Pond Street Franklin, MA 02038 www.tri-county.us 508-528-5400

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