Another in a series of podcasts on what matters in Franklin, MA. This one focusing on the presentation and discussion about the downtown parking study presented by Brian Taberner from the Town Council meeting on 9/3/08.
Time: 29 minutes, 36 seconds
MP3 File
Session Notes:
Music intro
My intro
FM #14
By way of catching up, I will do some shorter podcasts to provide the detailed discussions to you in their entirety. There is little I can add to the discussion itself so you might as well listen to it all and take from it what you will.
This is from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday 9/3/08 where Brian Taberner, the Downtown Planning and Community Development Director makes his presentation covering the downtown parking study. Beth Dalhstrom assists during the presentation. This portion of the meeting includes the Q&A and my own two cents input.
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This podcast has been a public service provided to my fellow Franklin citizens and voters by Steve Sherlock
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.blogspot.com/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The musical intro and closing is from the Podsafe Music Network
Jon Schmidt - Powerful Exhilarating Piano Music
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
FM #13 - Downtown Planning & Community Development
Another in a series of podcasts on what matters in Franklin, MA. This one focusing on the presentation by Brian Taberner, the Director of the Downtown Planning & Community Development.
Time: 39 minutes, 27 seconds
MP3 File
Session Notes
Music intro
My intro
FM #13
By way of catching up, I will do some shorter podcasts to provide the detailed discussions to you in their entirety. There is little I can add to the discussion itself so you might as well listen to it all and take from it what you will.
This is from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday 9/3/08 where Brian Taberner, the Downtown Planning and Community Development Director makes his presentation covering the goals, objectives, and projects underway. Beth Dalhstrom assists during the presentation.
The notes taken from my live reporting during the Town Council meeting can be found here
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This podcast has been a public service provided to my fellow Franklin citizens and voters by Steve Sherlock
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.blogspot.com/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The musical intro and closing is from the Podsafe Music Network
Jon Schmidt - Powerful Exhilarating Piano Music
Time: 39 minutes, 27 seconds
MP3 File
Session Notes
Music intro
My intro
FM #13
By way of catching up, I will do some shorter podcasts to provide the detailed discussions to you in their entirety. There is little I can add to the discussion itself so you might as well listen to it all and take from it what you will.
This is from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday 9/3/08 where Brian Taberner, the Downtown Planning and Community Development Director makes his presentation covering the goals, objectives, and projects underway. Beth Dalhstrom assists during the presentation.
The notes taken from my live reporting during the Town Council meeting can be found here
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This podcast has been a public service provided to my fellow Franklin citizens and voters by Steve Sherlock
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.blogspot.com/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The musical intro and closing is from the Podsafe Music Network
Jon Schmidt - Powerful Exhilarating Piano Music
In the News - ice cream social, collecting books
Franklin Library to host ice cream social
| This Saturday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m., the Friends of the Franklin Library will host an old-fashioned ice cream social featuring the award-winning barbershop quartet, Concord Express. |
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Friends of Franklin Public Library accepting book donations
| The Friends of the Franklin Public Library have announced they are accepting book donations for the Fall Book sale scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18. Book sale donations may be dropped off at the Franklin Public Library during regular business hours lower level. |
Monday, September 15, 2008
Town Council Agenda - 9/17/08
FRANKLIN TOWN COUNCIL
September 17, 2008
7:00 PM
September 17, 2008
7:00 PM
A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
C. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
D. CITIZEN COMMENTS
E. APPOINTMENTS - Design Review Commission
F. HEARINGS
G. LICENSE TRANSACTIONS
H. PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS – New Town Website
I. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
J. LEGISLATION FOR ACTION
- Resolution 08-48: Acceptance of Sewer Easement Off King Street
- Zoning Bylaw Amendment 08-625: Chapter 185-5:Zoning Map: Business to Commercial II- 2nd Reading
K. TOWN ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT
L. OLD BUSINESS
M. NEW BUSINESS
N. COUNCIL COMMENTS
O. EXECUTIVE SESSION – Negotiations, Litigation, Real Property, as May Be Required
P. ADJOURN
Sunday, September 14, 2008
FM #12 - Street Opening Bylaw
Another in a series of podcasts on what matters in Franklin, MA. This one features the discussion from the Town Council meeting on 9/3/08 on the Street Opening Bylaw.
Time: 22 minutes, 18 seconds
MP3 File
Session notes:
Music intro
My intro
FM #12
By way of catching up, I will do some shorter podcasts to provide the detailed discussions to you in their entirety. There is little I can add to the discussion itself so you might as well listen to it all and take from it what you will.
The first is from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday 9/3/08 where they discuss the proposed bylaw covering digging into a street in less than five years after it was re-done. The council completes the discussion and leaves the bylaw unchanged.
This will leave some residents with a situation that they are not happy with but it will leave the town overall with a better road infrastructure.
Choices, choices.
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This podcast has been a public service provided to my fellow Franklin citizens and voters by Steve Sherlock
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.blogspot.com/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The musical intro and closing is from the Podsafe Music Network
Jon Schmidt - Powerful Exhilarating Piano Music
Time: 22 minutes, 18 seconds
MP3 File
Session notes:
Music intro
My intro
FM #12
By way of catching up, I will do some shorter podcasts to provide the detailed discussions to you in their entirety. There is little I can add to the discussion itself so you might as well listen to it all and take from it what you will.
The first is from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday 9/3/08 where they discuss the proposed bylaw covering digging into a street in less than five years after it was re-done. The council completes the discussion and leaves the bylaw unchanged.
This will leave some residents with a situation that they are not happy with but it will leave the town overall with a better road infrastructure.
Choices, choices.
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This podcast has been a public service provided to my fellow Franklin citizens and voters by Steve Sherlock
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.blogspot.com/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The musical intro and closing is from the Podsafe Music Network
Jon Schmidt - Powerful Exhilarating Piano Music
Windows and doors
It appears to be the season for windows and doors.
The house at 188 King St now sports them:
The renovation/rebuilding of Honey Dew Donuts on East Central St now sports them as well. Looks like the coffee will be brewing soon!
How important are windows and doors?
Without them, all you have are four walls and no way to get in or out.
The house at 188 King St now sports them:
The renovation/rebuilding of Honey Dew Donuts on East Central St now sports them as well. Looks like the coffee will be brewing soon!
How important are windows and doors?
Without them, all you have are four walls and no way to get in or out.
In the News: defibrillators, Pirelli Scholarship, Back to Business
Since Franklin, which has five AEDs, began sending them out in every car during a shift several years ago, they've become an important staple, said Chief Stephen Williams.
"We have had to use them, and we have had saves," he said. "If we're there a minute or two before emergency services, minutes count for a person having a heart attack."
Read the full article about local police departments and their defibrillator inventory in the Milford Daily News here
Staff Sgt. Pirelli, 29, was killed in a gun battle on Aug. 15, 2007 in Diyala Province while serving a tour in Iraq with the Army Special Forces. The Green Beret had been a goalie for the Franklin High School Panthers hockey team.Read the full article about the Pirelli Scholarship fundraiser in the Milford Daily News here.
"My main job for the rest of my life is to keep his name alive,'' Pirelli said.
One of the ways he will do that, with the help of family and friends, is through establishing a perpetual scholarship for Franklin High School graduates.
To raise money for the first set of scholarships, which the Pirellis plan to hand out in 2010, they are holding a comedy night (for ages 21+) on Sept. 27 at the Doubletree Hotel in Milford (formerly the Milford Sheraton), at 7 p.m.
"We're really putting on a Las Vegas-quality show in Milford. There are headliners, Johnny Pizzi, who is in Vegas right now, Paul Gilligan, Tony Vee, Paul D'Angelo,'' Alberts said.
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Read more about getting women Back to Business in the Milford Daily News here.
A "super mom'' was sitting with her, talking about how she had just sent her child to college and needed to find a job, but felt she had nothing to offer, Waters recalled.
"I thought she had it all together. She sat in front of me and started crying, and told me nobody would talk to her,'' Waters said.
The woman had spent a lot of time volunteering and was active in the community, but didn't think potential employers would value that experience, she explained.
So Waters used her corporate vocabulary and applied it to her resume, showing her she had many transferable skills.
"She started to sit up straight and became confident she was worth something out there,'' Waters said.
That woman, in turn, inspired Waters to start Back to Business, instead of one of the other dozen or so ideas she was kicking around, she said.
She spent the next year and a half researching, interviewing human resource managers, recruiters, and other hiring entities to learn what they wanted in employees.
"They're not against moms returning to the workforce, or people making a job transition. They just want to see transferable skills, computer skills, and they want the candidate to be clear about what they want,'' she said.
Waters realized she could bridge the gap and clear up misperceptions, she said.
Unable to find a good alternative to their situation, many women do nothing and simply continue feeling stuck, she said.
"We un-stick these fabulous women,'' Waters said.
"Confidence is the biggest thing missing,'' she said, adding that hiring managers do comment about applicants needing to have more of it.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Recycle electronics at Gillette today update
The Sony recycling event at Gillette Stadium is a logistics marvel! You don't need to leave your vehicle. You drive through a brief slalom-like set of cones, get directed to a lane and stop. Recyclers are ready to empty your vehicle into large boxes. As the boxes fill, they are fork-lifted onto trucks. As soon as you are empty, you drive up to be handed a Sony recycle bag and pointed to the exit. A quick drive out and you're on your way again.
It's the least amount of time you'll ever spend getting out of an event at Gillette! Well worth the effort loading your car with electronics to recycle!
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Replies.Industry: Vacumet - holography
I found this press release recently and want to add it to our growing collection of what is happening in the industry located here in Franklin.
Vacumet Corp. - Holography is located at 24 Forge Park, Franklin, MA 02038 USA
Franklin, MA, September 08, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Vacumet, Corp., the world’s leading vacuum metallizer, today announced the launch of its new commercially available holographic stock design library. Vacumet’s new library houses over 100 holographic stock designs and represents two years of research and development efforts and an over $2 million investment. Vacumet’s holographic stock designs are being used to create unique, illuminating effects for packaging across industries, including food and beverage, beauty, publishing, home entertainment and holographic security. While maintaining the expanding holographic stock library, Vacumet will continue to offer its award-winning custom holographic design service.
The new library offers an assortment of exclusive stock patterns and utilizes all manners of holographic techniques, including dot matrix and conventional “full wave” holography. Vacumet’s library represents both traditional and modern patterns, and is currently stocking a variety of “Multiple Dots” patterns, “Cracked Ice/Broken Glass” designs, as well as distinctive lenslet and kinetic plaid designs. Vacumet plans to continually add to this stock library and will announce additional exclusive holographic stock patterns in the coming months.
“Brand differentiation and shelf appeal continue to be important factors in building a successful point-of-purchase sales strategy,” said Joe Formosa, business manager for HoloPRISM® at Vacumet. “With our extensive holographic stock design library, Vacumet can provide virtually limitless packaging solutions than can increase brand visibility while boosting sales.”
About Vacumet Corp.
Vacumet Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Scholle Corporation, is the single largest commercial metallizing company in the world. Its metallized products are used in the production of some of the most exciting and functional, barrier, cosmetic, labeling and promotional packaging products for major brands across industries and around the world. Vacumet products and processes are representative of its ongoing commitment to sustainable packaging. For more information, please visit http://www.Vacumet.com.
Vacumet Corp. - Holography is located at 24 Forge Park, Franklin, MA 02038 USA
"a profound sense of history"
GHS
FRANKLIN —
It happens, sometimes, in the White House - or a ranch house in Franklin - that great minds come together and do something amazing.
In the name of promoting literacy, 108 renowned authors and illustrators joined forces and created the anthology: "Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out."
The star cast of contributors include a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, four Pulitzer Prize winners, three National Book Award recipients (and eight finalists), two MacArthur "Genius Fellows," 13 Newbery Medal winners (and 15 finalists), eight Caldecott Medal recipients (and 20 honors) and 12 Coretta Scott King Award winners (and 22 honors).
The idea for the historical book arose nearly a decade ago in the Franklin home of Mary Brigid Barrett, the founder, president and executive director of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
The book's website is found here
National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance website
I love the quote attributed to Barbara Tuchman that is found on the NCBLA home page:
"Without books, history is silent, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill... They are the engines of change, windows on the world, and ... 'Lighthouses erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."
What was the last book you read?
Have you read Dark Tide, Stephen Puleo's book on the Molasses Flood? The library has a number of copies available as part of the program this year "On the Same Page".
Friday, September 12, 2008
In the New - author in residence, senior residence assistance
FRANKLIN -
Jed Horne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and former editor of the Times Picayune (New Orleans) will be the author in residence at Dean College.
Horne, author of the book "Breach of Faith," will read, present and sign copies of his book at a community event on Wednesday, Sept. 24, starting at 7 p.m., in the College’s Campus Center.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by Dean College’s Student Government Association.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
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FRANKLIN —
For the past two years, resident Ron Higginbottom and Town Councilor Joseph McGann have been making life at home safer for more than 100 Franklin seniors.
Every time the Senior Center's nurse inspects an elderly resident's home to prevent falls and finds a lack of grab bars in the bathroom, Higginbottom and McGann volunteer to install one there, said Senior Center Director Karen Alves.
As part of the center's Safe and Secure at Home program, the nurse visits seniors' homes and conducts risk assessments for falls, she said.
"Statistics say that for a lot of seniors, when they take a fall, it's usually a hospital visit or death (that results). Typically, they'll break a hip, which leads to a nursing home," Alves said.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
For a picture of Ron Higgenbottom's Town Council Proclamation, look here
Thursday, September 11, 2008
In the News - superintendent search, local princess
GHS
FRANKLIN —
The School Committee last night unanimously supported conducting an internal search to replace outgoing Superintendent Wayne Ogden, who announced his resignation Aug. 27.
"We have a lot of internal talent. I think it's important to promote from within," said Vice Chairwoman Paula Mullen.
Choosing an internal candidate will save money and has the added bonus of having a ripple effect, she said, as selecting a current staff member will leave an opening for another employee to fill.
An external candidate, on the other hand, would have a learning curve in getting to know a new and large school district, Mullen said.
The other six School Committee members expressed similar thoughts.
Noting that the last search for a superintendent took "quite a while," School Committee member Ed Cafasso said the district would save time and money by selecting Ogden's successor from an internal pool.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
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FRANKLIN —
As a little girl, Gabrielle Murray dreamed of being a princess and becoming a professional singer.
Not too much to ask, if you're 5 years old.
Today, at 26, Murray actually is a princess - the only princess - at King Richard's Faire in Carver, which runs on weekends now through Oct. 19.
"Little girls believe she really is a princess, and a lot of them believe she's the princess from (the movie) 'Enchanted,"' said Gabrielle's mother, Elaine Murray.
"You tell them no, and they won't believe you. Even grown men - she goes by them and they go all mushy," she said, chuckling and shaking her head.
Even sitting at the dining room table at her Franklin home in regular clothing, sans her soft pink gown and tiara, it's easy to imagine Murray as a princess.
Like a royal from the Renaissance, her flowing red locks fall to her waist, she kicks into high soprano and takes on a slight English accent as she belts out one of Princess Aria's songs, pining for true love to find her.
Amid the jousting, jugglers, angels and variety acts, Murray plays Princess Aria Lumere all day, she said.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
School Committee Meeting - 9/9/08
- live reporting - information matters
- live reporting - action items
- live reporting - superintendent goals
- live reporting - class size update
- live reporting - superintendent replacement
- Live reporting - Annie Sullivan Middle School Trib...
- Live reporting - school committee 9/9/08
- School Committee Agenda - 9/9/08
Progress on 188 King St - new roof
Our Sunday morning walk allowed me to snap this update. The roof is on and just in time. It was up before TS Hanna blew through Franklin on the weekend.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
live reporting - information matters
5. Information Matters
Superintendent’s Report
School Committee Liaison Reports - none
meeting adjorned to Executive Session not to return to a public forum this evening
Superintendent’s Report
- Enrollment / Class size(already covered)
- PCC Leadership (new listing in your packet)
- HMMS / Oak Street / ECDC (repairs complete, sheet rock left off temporarily to allow for drying, good response by Fire Dept., got to test the ConnectEd system and got almost universal compliments, far more difficult was connecting with the media outlets and getting them to believe that I was indeed the Superintendent. Their system is set to handle the snow warnings. They still need to speak to the State and see if we need to make up the day.)
- Courses not offered this year
School Committee Liaison Reports - none
meeting adjorned to Executive Session not to return to a public forum this evening
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