"In this episode, the Franklin Senior Center writers group presents stories and poems about growing up playing baseball, being a mother in a hockey family, the dawning of Spring, how meatloaf saved Zenobia's life and much more.
This episode aired on Franklin Radio for April 2022. "
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| wfpr.fm: Episode 040 - Baseball, Hockey, Spring, Meatloaf And So Much More (audio) |
"We're kicking off National #WorkZoneAwarenessWeek today!
From 2018-2021, there were 181 work zone-related crashes that resulted in a serious injury or fatality in #MA. Please take a moment to reflect on the individuals who build, patrol & maintain the roads we travel on daily."
Shared from Twitter https://twitter.com/MassDOTSafety/status/1513496760815038466
Franklin has a number of road construction projects underway around town so please be careful!
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| National #WorkZoneAwarenessWeek |
"THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE budget, which will be released from the Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, will include major new investments in early childhood education targeted at expanding the workforce and helping providers that offer subsidized care to low-income families.
However, the changes, which are aimed at increasing the accessibility of childcare, do not address the problem that many middle-class families have affording the state’s expensive private pay childcare system.
“We have to start somewhere, and the subsidized programs serve our most vulnerable students and children,” said House Education Committee Chair Alice Peisch at a press conference at Ellis Early Learning in Boston. Peisch chaired a special commission that examined the economics of early childhood education and made myriad recommendations for improving the system, to the tune of $1.5 billion a year."
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| https://malegislature.gov/Budget/HouseWaysMeansBudget |
"KEY BEACON HILL lawmakers said on Monday they were supportive of Gov. Charlie Baker’s bid to tilt health care more toward behavioral and primary care, but they worried that the $1.4 billion spending mandate over three years would result in higher health care spending.At a hearing of the Legislature’s Health Care Financing Committee, Baker and Marylou Sudders, his secretary of health and human services, pushed for passage of legislation that would require health care providers to boost spending by 30 percent over three years on primary care, behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and geriatric care.The bill requires providers to boost their spending in those areas while still remaining within the health care cost benchmark established by the Health Policy Commission. But several members of the committee said they were concerned about the potential for a rapid runup in health care spending. "
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| Did you get a text from your own number? That’s a scam |
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) |
Fire Chief James McLaughlin and Joseph Pasco, Northeast Manager of ISO (Insurance Services Office, Inc.), presented the upgraded rating of an ISO Class 1 to the Town Council on April 6th, 2022. The Franklin Fire Department will move to the ISO Class 1 rating effective July 1st, 2022. The ISO Class 1 rating from the Public Protection Classification is the highest rating attainable.
Franklin will be the 9th Fire Department in Massachusetts, only the 15th Fire Department in New England, and 459th in the Nation to obtain this rating. This is out of over 45,000 fire departments rated nationally. The Public Protection Classification goes from 1 to 10. Class 1 represents superior property fire protection and Class 10 indicates that the area’s fire-suppression program doesn’t meet minimum criteria.
This rating is based on strict criteria developed and assessed by the ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS). ISO provides data and analytics for the property/casualty insurance industry. Most U.S. insurers use the Public Protection Classification information as part of their decision making on offering coverage and the fees charged for the coverage of personal or commercial property insurance. It is estimated that the improvement of each rating on the scale of 1-10 helps save property owners 7-15% on insurance.
Please note that the insurance policy holder must contact their insurance company to inquire about any savings. Not every insurance company may use this rating.
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| The ISO Class 1 rating from the Public Protection Classification is the highest rating attainable |
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| Fire Dept achieves ISO Class 1 rating |
"In this episode, Frank Falvey discusses internet and telephone fraud; the common scams that are affecting people, the tell tale signs of fraud, and other information to help protect yourself from fraud."
Episode link -> https://frank-falvey.captivate.fm/episode/029-frank-musings-fraud
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| wfpr.fm: 029 - Frank's Musings - Fraud (audio) |
