Meet MC the owner of Timeless Crossfit & Fitness

After being in the corporate business world for 17 years, MC left to pursue her passion for fitness. She is a certified personal trainer, group exercise instructor and nutrition coach. Her fitness career in Franklin eventually landed her a great opportunity to own and operate her own gym.

Timeless Crossfit & Fitness is a welcoming and approachable way to begin or continue your wellness journey. You’ll immediately feel like Timeless is your second home. A place to escape the rat race and focus on building your health. MC is passionate about breaking down the “stigma” of Crossfit and making it a workout for everyone.

Crossfit classes run all throughout the day! If you’re new to Crossfit you can sign-up for the On-Ramp program which is 3x 1 hour sessions that teach you about crossfit standards, 1-1 personal assessment and all the foundational movements.

I want to emphasize that Timeless is more than just Crossfit. There is a wide variety of classes:

- strength & burn

- Step class

- strength & conditioning

- TRX

- Shred & tone

- Woman’s boxing (I love boxing, helped me get into the best shape of my life!)

- Cycling

- Kettlebell

- Barre

- Yoga

There is also a small group training class for those with disabilities and a youth strength and conditioning class (ages 11-17).

There is childcare which is an amazing service for parents trying to balance their workouts/family life.

Lastly, Timeless Crossfit & Fitness takes COVID and safety very seriously. Lots of cleaning! If this is a concern preventing you from working out, talk to the staff to learn more! Everyone has a different comfort level so I just encourage talking to them directly about this!

(Photography credit 📸: @ryanosbornephotography)

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FHS Panther Hockey says "Thank you"

"Thank you to our amazing community for helping make the FHS Bottle & Can Drive and Franklin Food Pantry Drive a huge success. Looking forward to seeing you all at Harvest Festival!

@FHSSports @PanthersJVPuck @ToFranklinMa @FranklinRec @FYHockey" 

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some of the collection by the FHS Panthers Boys Hockey team

Franklin (MA) Police: Consider this lockup routine before you go to bed

A good reminder from the Franklin Police Department:

Franklin (MA) Police: Consider this lockup routine before you go to bed

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And a good reason to use this routine every day:

"LOCK YOUR CARS. LOCK YOUR CARS. LOCK YOUR CARS. 

Not to sound like a broken record but over the last 2 weeks the department has taken 4 reports of stolen cars from neighborhoods overnight. Each of these incidents involved cars being left unlocked with keys left inside them. Cars were stolen from Southgate Road, A Street, Mary Anne Drive, and Mary Jane Road.  

All 4 of these cars have been recovered and are being processed by Franklin Detectives. These cars are being found abandoned or unoccupied in Framingham and Providence. Don’t allow yourself to fall victim to these crimes. Never leave your keys unlocked in your cars overnight."

Shared from Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/162770995915/posts/10157832171275916/

Lifeline Awareness Week

 

"Living alone can be isolating, especially over the past year when socializing has been a health risk due to COVID-19. That is why the Department of Telecommunications and Cable (DTC) wants you to know, no matter your income, there are ways for you to have a home phone, cell phone, and internet plan. Since 1985, the Lifeline Program, a service administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company as part of the Universal Service Fund, has kept Americans connected and safe by providing low cost and no cost phone service options for eligible low-income consumers.

To commemorate the availability of this government service, the DTC and its partners­—the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA)—are participating in Lifeline Awareness Week from September 20-24, 2021. Through this awareness week, these groups hope to educate the public about this life saving prevention program."

Continue reading the article online
http://blog.mass.gov/consumer/massconsumer/lifeline-awareness-week/

In the revised and "preliminary final" Housing Production Plan almost 12% of Franklin householders live alone, and 7.1% of those are over 65 years old. 
https://www.franklinma.gov/planning-community-development/files/preliminary-final-2021-housing-production-plan

Lifeline Awareness Week

If you only do one thing with your privacy settings ...

"There’s probably a little bit of Google in every part of your life. The company hosts a sprawling network of tools and apps we use for everything — from school assignments and work emails, to watching how-to videos and making calls. The good news is that Google has tried to collect its most important privacy settings into one place, which means you can protect your data in Gmail and Google-owned YouTube at the same time.

Google offers a “Privacy Checkup” to get through settings quickly, but defaults to more mild options than we’ve listed below. There are some trade-offs when you limit Google’s data collection, according to the company. Google services that give recommendations might not be as helpful, and any ads you see will be less accurately targeted.

These privacy setting recommendations are based on your Google Account settings on the Web. You can also access them through individual Google apps or your settings on an Android phone by going to Settings → Google (or Google Services)."

Continue reading the article online. (Subscription maybe required)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/23/google-privacy-settings/

If you only do one thing with your privacy settings ...

"The region is one of many across the globe being struck by severe drought."

"Sergio Koci’s sunflower farm in the lowlands of northern Argentina has survived decades of political upheaval, runaway inflation and the coronavirus outbreak. But as a series of historic droughts deadens vast expanses of South America, he fears a worsening water crisis could do what other calamities couldn’t: Bust his third-generation agribusiness.

“When you have one bad year, you can face it,” Koci said. Some of his 20,000 acres rest near the mighty Paraná River, where water levels have reached lows not seen since 1944. On the back of two years of drought-related crop losses, he said, the continuing dryness is now set to reduce his sunflower yields this year by 65 percent.

“When you have three bad years, you don’t know if there will even be another year,” he said.

From the frigid peaks of Patagonia to the tropical wetlands of Brazil, worsening droughts this year are slamming farmers, shutting down ski slopes, upending transit and spiking prices for everything from coffee to electricity."

Continue reading the article online. (Subscription maybe required)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/24/argentina-brazil-south-america-drought/

Meanwhile, on the home front:

"Breaking news in the weather department this morning... We have now moved into first place for the wettest July through September. #EnoughIsEnough"

https://twitter.com/growingwisdom/status/1442073286591062017

We have now moved into first place for the wettest July through September

FM #611 - Town Council Candidate - Cobi Frongillo - 09/20/21 (audio)

FM #611 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 611 in the series. 

This shares my conversation with candidate for Town Council Cobi Frongillo. 

This is one of a series of conversations with candidates for the Franklin Election on Nov 2, 2021. I do this to provide Franklin, MA voters with accurate and timely information that they can use to cast an informed vote.  Publication of the answers or interview responses does not constitute an endorsement of this or any candidate.

We cover the candidate questions as previously developed with the community and shared with the candidates. Five of the questions are ‘general’ in nature, the sixth is specific to the role of the candidate. In this case, for the Town Council.

Our conversation runs about 26 minutes, so let’s listen to my interview with Cobi Frongillo. ** Audio file -> https://player.captivate.fm/episode/55e0ca75-36dc-4740-86de-f84644d9788d

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Edited transcript ->  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-NNZCmQ1hK208A0JANKsJG669MLg4G7l/view?usp=sharing

Candidate questions -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/09/election-2021-candidate-interview.html 

Candidate page ->  https://www.cobifrongillo.com/ 

Election Collection 2021 ->  https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/07/franklin-election-collection-2021.html 

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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial. 

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

 

How can you help?

• If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors

• If you don't like something here, please let me know

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

 

For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/  or www.franklin.news 

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana"  c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

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FM #611 - Town Council Candidate - Cobi Frongillo - 09/20/21 (audio)