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.
---- ---- ----
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.
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