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| Town of Franklin E-Newsletter - March 2020 |
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| Franklin Primary Results - Live Broadcast scheduled for 8 PM |
"The Massachusetts Housing Partnership will hold a conference on April 16 in Hadley to address the housing challenges faced by small and rural communities in the central and western parts of the state.
The Western Massachusetts Housing Conference, co-sponsored by the MMA, will focus on using data to support housing needs, housing rehabilitation, affordable home-ownership opportunities, distressed and abandoned properties, senior housing and community outreach and coalition building. It will also address the findings in last October’s Rural Policy Plan, prepared by the Rural Policy Advisory Commission to identify rural areas’ needs and the specific challenges they face.
The conference is geared toward officials, volunteers and municipal and nonprofit employees. Event sponsors include the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, and the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission.
It will be held at the Hadley Farms Meeting House, 41 Russell St., from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. The cost is $30 for municipal planners, volunteers and nonprofit employees, and $50 for people from for-profit organizations. Breakfast and lunch will be provided."
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| Basic Entrepreneurial Workshops - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - FREE |
"The state Department of Public Health Monday night announced a presumptive positive case of COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, contracted by a woman who recently traveled to Italy.Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
The woman, in her 20s and who lives in Norfolk County, had recently traveled to Italy with a school group, according to a statement issued Monday night by the state agency.
The woman was recovering at home. According to the agency, the woman’s test results came back positive Monday evening.
Specimens will be sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, if confirmed, it would be the second confirmed positive coronavirus case in Massachusetts since the outbreak started in the United States in January. In its statement, the agency said the risk to COVID-19 remains low in the Bay State."
"Local election officials have been advised by the state’s top election overseer to be vigilant about cleaning voting booths, swapping out pens shared by multiple voters and having extra poll workers on call as public health concerns over the spreading coronavirus collide Tuesday with the 1.85 million people expected to vote in the presidential primaries.
Secretary of State William Galvin said Monday that he does not think the virus, which has been confirmed in one patient in Massachusetts but has kicked off widespread concern about the risk of infection, will have any real impact on the elections but advised local clerks to be prepared all the same, and to make arrangements for voters who are self-quarantining themselves out of an abundance of caution.
“Obviously, we do not think it’s a reason for people not to vote, but it has led to some concerns that are quite legitimate,” the secretary said. “If you go through the process that average citizens will involve as a vote, they’ll come to the table where they check in, they’ll get a ballot which they will handle by themselves, they’ll use a pen -- which usually is provided by the local election officials and may be used by multiple voters -- and then they will proceed to a compartment, mark the ballot and, having concluded that, will put it in the box.”
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| "4 updates on Super Tuesday by Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin" |
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| Franklin Residents: Voting Information from the Town Clerk's Office |
