Franklin Matters

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Dean College - "Think Pink"

The Dean College Women’s Basketball team, in conjunction with the Sisterhood and the Student Government Association are sponsoring the second annual “Think Pink” night to raise awareness about breast cancer. The groups will be selling “Think Pink” tee shirts to raise money for the College’s Relay for Life team later this Spring.

The shirts are available at the basketball team’s 6 p.m. game on Thursday, February 10 at the Pieri Gym on School Street, on the College’s campus in Franklin.

Admission to the basketball game is free, but a suggested donation of $3 per person will go to the “Relay for Life” team. Tee shirts are available in white, pink or black and range in price from $8 to $12.

Attendees are encouraged to wear pink. Refreshments, activities and drawings will be available during the basketball game.

Franklin, MA

MA sales tax less than national average

Sent to you by Steve Sherlock via Google Reader:

MA sales tax less than national average

via Commonwealth Conversations: Revenue by Robert Bliss on 2/4/11

The non-partisan, non-profit Tax Foundation has released its latest ranking of state sales taxes and Massachusetts ranks 31st (with No. 1 having the highest rate).

Unlike many other states, Massachusetts , which has a sales tax of 6.25 percent, does not allow municipalities to levy their own sales taxes.

The highest combined rate is 9.44 percent in Tennessee, which has a 7 percent state tax and an average local rate of 2.44 percent. California, Arizona, Louisiana and Washington are at the top just below Tennessee.

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Friday, February 4, 2011

Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson

I have shared Sir Ken Robinson here before but this animated delivery is I think stunning!

What do you think?

Franklin, MA

MA Local Property Tax Exemption Fact Sheet

From the MA DLS email comes info on a fact sheet about local property tax exemptions for religious and charitable organizations:

This fact sheet is to provide general information to taxpayers about local property tax exemptions for religious and charitable organizations. It is not designed to address all questions or issues and does not change any provision of the Massachusetts General Laws.

If the link above does not work, please copy and paste the following in to your browser: www.mass.gov/Ador/docs/dls/publ/brochures/charity.pdf

For more Forms & Brochures please click here; for more Municipal Law Publications please click here.

Franklin, MA

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Quick updates

I have updated both the Welcome page and the "Why Franklin Matters" page.

The Welcome page update removed the prior slidecast and replaced that with subscription forms.

The Why Franklin Matters page includes a new work position for me and an update that I have earned some income with the articles that I have contributed to the new Franklin Town News.

And as always -