Added to agenda: motion made and approved to organize the Council for the next year.
Feeley - Chair
Bartlett - Vice-Chair
Pfeffer - Clerk
all motions made and voted 8-0 (Vallee not attending)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
GATRA "free ride" coupons
Yes, it is true, there is a "free ride" coupon coming for the GATRA Franklin bus.
Where do you get a coupon?
If your neighbor doesn't want to use it, ask them for it?
If you can't use it, give it to some one who will use it!
That's helping someone get at least one ride free.
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Where do you get a coupon?
This Friday’s (November 7, 2008) edition of The Country Gazette will have a 2” x 2” orange coupon also known as an “Ad Note” affixed to the front page of 10,000 copies of the paper. The “Ad Note” is a “peel off” good for a FREE RIDE. The “coupon” is good immediately up to and including Saturday, December 20, 2008.
If your neighbor doesn't want to use it, ask them for it?
If you can't use it, give it to some one who will use it!
That's helping someone get at least one ride free.
In the News - 2010 Budget planing starting
GHS
FRANKLIN —
Thanks to the sour economy, Franklin is looking at a possible shortfall of several million dollars for fiscal 2010, and a subsequent "major reduction in force ... townwide," Town Administrator Jeffrey D. Nutting told the Finance Committee last night.
It is still too early to estimate how much the shortfall will be, said Nutting.
That figure, he said, depends on the result of Question 1 (to repeal the state income tax), and assuming there aren't any changes in revenue projections. According to last night's numbers, Massachusetts voters shot down the effort to repeal the income tax.
Nutting's projection was not discussed at length, as it was not an issue on last night's meeting agenda, but he mentioned it when he told the board he will ask department heads to submit budgets in early December.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
"the school system is going to need it"
Michael Doherty, a member of the board of directors of the Franklin Education Foundation, said he is worried about the economy's effect on the foundation. "Local businesses have been feeling the pinch for well over a year and it is harder for them to be as generous to us as they have in the past,'' he said. "We still get a lot of support but some of the small businesses have really suffered.''
The Franklin Educational Foundation will hold its third annual casino night on Nov. 21, but on a smaller scale than in the past, Doherty said. He said he thinks people are waiting until later to purchase tickets for the event.
"We hope to get a large turnout for it, the event was well supported in the last two years,'' he said. "People who are not gamblers come out and understand its just a fun event and everyone knows what they spend will benefit a great cause.''
Doherty said another casualty of the economy is that people have less and less time to volunteer for the foundation. "People are working more, but we are always accepting new members and donations for the cause,'' he said. And with state budget cuts and less revenue from other sources, the school system is going to need it, Doherty said.
"We cannot make up the entire gap but we hope to provide whatever assistance we can,'' he said.
Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
"They're both really smart,"
GateHouse News Service
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FRANKLIN —
If the voting pattern of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Horace Mann Middle School is any reflection of the way the rest of the country will vote today, Barack Obama will win by a landslide.Read the full article in the Milford Daily News here
The final tally: Barack Obama, 329; John McCain, 181; Ralph Nader, 17.
'Our motto today is: `As Horace Mann goes, so goes the nation,''' said sixth-grade math teacher Patricia Metrick, who helped organize the mock election.
"Twenty, 30 years from now, this election's going to be in our textbooks. Their children will be learning about it. It gives (today's students) a chance to participate, even though they're only young adults,'' said Metrick.
Although the school has held mock elections in the past, this was "by far the snazziest, most authentic one,'' said sixth-grade English/social studies teacher Joseph Corey, who directed the video news team yesterday with sixth-grade math and science teacher Noreen Langmeyer.
"They're very excited, they're waiting for their turn to vote,'' Langmeyer said.
Voting is Patriotic (USA)
Not just patriotic, is it a democratic society's duty.
Please get out and vote today!
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