"Andrew Mario Bissanti, 64, of Franklin died peacefully January 7 at Milford Regional Medical Center. He was the husband of Christina M. (Lombardi) Bissanti.Arrangements are incomplete and under the direction of the Ginley Funeral Home of Franklin (www.ginleyfuneralhomes.com)."
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| former Town Councilor Andy Bissanti at an EDC meeting in Feb 2021 |
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| Franklin Library: Girls who code - parent open house - Jan 11, 2022 |
Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf
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| Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) |
FM #689 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 689 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares the audio recording of the #LoveFranklin Open Mic Night held on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021 at THE BLACK BOX.
The evening master of ceremony duties were shared by MacKenzie Atwood and jamele adams.
The original raw recording runs an hour and 36 minutes. You’ll be listening to the edited version which is shortened by about 12 minutes.
Key reasons for shortening the recording (1) to spare your ears the jarring sound of cleaning the microphone between performers. (2) A couple of the audience participation exercises were shortened. (How much indistinct audience/crowd noise can you listen to?).
One percussion performance added at the last minute during the evening was also shortened. The percussion exercise was good to be in while it happened but would have been headache inducing to listen to. So we spared you that. No other performance was shortened or edited in any way.
Let’s listen to the Love Franklin Open Mic Night of Dec 8, 2021.
https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-689-lovefranklin-open-mic-night-12-08-21--------------
The lineup for the "Love Franklin" Open Mic Night at THE BLACK BOX
1. jamele adams - poem
2. Mia Magliari - All I Ask by Adele
3. Audrey Olmstead - She by Dodie
4. Hope Guanga - If I knew by Bruno Mars
5. Mackenzie Atwood - Back In (self written poem)
6. Joe Maple and Audrey Olmstead - Can't Help Falling in Love with you
7. Meghan Whitmore - Her Personal Story
8. Andrew Mitchell - Crisis by Joshua Bassett
9. Maria Zaki - Complainers by Rudy Francisco
10. Steve Sherlock - Poem: Variations on the theme of "A dark and stormy night"
11. Hope Guanga - Crocodile Rock by Elton John
12. Judi Perez - percussion exercise
jamele closes with a recap of some of the audience inspirations
More information about the Freedom Team can be found online -> https://www.franklinfreedomteam.org/
More of my poetry can be found at quietpoet.com/
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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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| for the 'selfie exercise' with Meghan Whitmore |
Pantherbook article on this event -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/12/pantherbook-lovefranklin-open-mic-night.html
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| Pantherbook: LoveFranklin Open Mic Night - Dec 8, 2021 |
"Remarks at Jan. 6 vigil in Franklin https://t.co/IDvOlgjVtS"Shared from Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffroy/status/1479418690005348353
"As Senator Rausch indicated, our day in the Massachusetts Legislature started with finishing the work of the 191st General Court on January 5, 2021.
We passed multiple pieces of legislation on the final day of the session. This work included wide-ranging pieces of legislation, including one early item that was a resolution for Franklin’s Frank Liotta, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Another piece that passed around 2 AM was a law I had been working on for two years on the prevention of campus sexual violence.
We worked until around 5:00 AM on January 6, and I finally went to bed exhausted to get some sleep."
Audio of the event will be ready for publication and sharing this weekend. Franklin TV also captured a video recording. When that is ready for airing, I'll share the schedule.
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| State Representative Jeffrey N. Roy: Remarks at Jan 6 vigil in Franklin |
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As with most meetings in this pandemic period, I took my notes via Twitter while I attended the meeting via the Zoom conference bridge.
Photos captured during the meeting can be found in one album
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ShPnhpjx3tMBNRR76
Note: for some reason, the way the presentation was displayed via Zoom, it did not enable me to go full screen to view each or any of the slides. So while I usually can grab some 'screen captures' that was not possible for this meeting and we will need to wait for the presentation doc to be posted (as was promised).
The presentation doc is available -> https://www.mapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Frankling-for-All-Steering-Committee-Meeting-1-Presentation.pdf
The Twitter hashtag #edc0105 can be found online The thread begins with
https://twitter.com/FranklinMatters/status/1478864954082177030
Audio recording of meeting to be available in couple of days
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| Emma Battaglia, Senior Housing and Land Use Planner from MAPC |
"Highest home sale in 2021
The highest price paid for a single-family home in Franklin during 2021 was $1,677,900. While decidedly small potatoes in many of the affluent communities throughout Greater Boston, it was the highest price ever paid for a home in Franklin listed on MLS-PIN.
Before 2021, Franklin’s record-high sale price on MLS-PIN was $1,577,000, which was set in 2020.
Franklin’s sale price record broken five times in 2021
What’s most noteworthy about 2021’s housing market in Franklin is that the town’s record-high sale price set in 2020 was surpassed FIVE times just one year later in 2021!"
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| The number of single-family home sales in Franklin recorded on MLS-PIN during 2021 was significantly higher than the previous year’s total |