New Bedford Folk Fest - this weekend

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Circle of Friends Coffeehouse 262 Chestnut St Franklin, MA  02038 Phone: 508 528 2541 > Map > Official Site > ReverbNation Profile NEW BEDFORD FOLK FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND This Saturday and Sunday don't miss the New Bedford Folk Festival. Now with two air conditioned stages including the Zeiterion Theater. John Gorka, Ellis Paul, Lori McKenna, Cheryl Wheeler, Antje Duvekot, The Kennedys, The Grand Slambovians and many, many more. Make sure you check out the Music page. At Circle of Friends we are looking forward to another fabulous season beginning with Chris Smither on Sep 28th. Be warned that Chris and the following Red Molly concert are sure to sell out. The Circle of Friends Coffeehouse is a non-profit organization affiliated with Franklin's First Universalist Society. Concerts are presented in a smoke free and alcohol free environment at the Society's handicapped accessible Meetinghouse, 262 Chestnut St. in Franklin, and begin at 8:00 PM; doors open at 7:30 PM. Beverages and gourmet desserts will be available. Please call (508)528-2541 or visit http://www.circlefolk.org/ to purchase tickets or for more information. UPCOMING SHOWS Sat Sep 28 13, 08:00 PM Chris Smither Tickets: $30 Sat Oct 19 13, 08:00 PM Red Molly, Layah Jane Tickets: $25 Sat Nov 09 13, 08:00 PM Seth Glier, Liz Longley Tickets: $20 Sat Nov 23 13, 08:00 PM The Kennedys, The Boxcar Lilies Tickets: $20   Sat Dec 14 13, 08:00 PM Robbie O'Connell, Aoife Clancy Tickets: $25 A Celtic Christmas > See More / Details

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MassBudget: The Legislature's budget proposal for FY 2014

MassBudget    Information.    Participation.  Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center    Democracy. The Legislature's Budget Proposal Yesterday (July 1), the House and Senate approved a budget proposal for FY 2014. Though the Governor may veto parts of it, this joint budget includes most of the provisions that will make up the state budget for the coming year. Our new Budget Monitor shows how the proposal would affect core programs across the budget, from Health Care and Education to Youth Employment and the Environment--including information on revenue. Some of the more significant elements include: State-wide investments to fix and repair our transportation system Roughly $100 million in additional funding for higher education, including UMass, state universities, and community colleges A variety of increases in public health programs that support family planning and protect consumers Read THE LEGISLATURE'S BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR FY 2014 See ALL OF OUR BUDGET RESOURCES The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) produces policy research, analysis, and data-driven recommendations focused on improving the lives of low- and middle-income children and adults, strengthening our state's economy, and enhancing the quality of life in Massachusetts. MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER 15 COURT SQUARE, SUITE 700 BOSTON, MA 02108

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Lapels in Franklin Holds Ribbon Cutting

United Chamber of Commerce

LAPELS DRY CLEANING IN FRANKLIN HOLDS RIBBON CUTTING

The United Regional Chamber of Commerce organized a ribbon cutting event on June 27 to celebrate the grand opening of Lapels Dry Cleaning, 456 West Central St. in Franklin. Lapels offers environmentally friendly dry cleaning services from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 3 p.m. Sundays. Lapels also offers a 24-hour drop box as well as car-hop service.

Lapels Ribbon Cutting

Pictured at the ribbon cutting (L to R) are: Ralph Arguin of Country Gardens, Elaine Blais, Timothy Curley of State Rep. Jeffrey Roy's office, Susan Siraco of State Rep. Jeffrey Roy's office, Celeste Sunderland, Eric Gasbarro, Lapels Owner Pam Sunderland, Gil Blais, Ron Sunderland, Stacey Sunderland, Andy Frappier and United Regional Chamber of Commerce President Jack Lank.


Visit Lapels - Franklin online here http://www.mylapels.com/locations.asp?loc=112

Rep Roy: Office hours

Representative Roy Announces Office Hours

Boston, MA -- State Representative Jeffrey Roy (D-Franklin) announced today that constituent office hours will be held in Medway and Franklin for the Month of July on the following days: 

Franklin – July 20^th, 10:00-11:00AM, Franklin Public Library – 18 Main Street Franklin, MA 

Medway – July 27^th, 10:00-11:00AM, Gaetano's Bakery – 74 Main Street Medway, MA 

Christopher Yancich, his legislative aide, will be accompanying him. 

Representative Roy stated that all office hours are open to any residents of Franklin and Medway who may have questions or concerns that they wish to bring to his attention.  Walk-ins are welcome; no appointment necessary. He looks forward to hearing from you. 

He also invites all constituents to call him at his State House office at (617) 722-2400, stop by Room 134 in the State House, or email him at Jeffrey.Roy@MAhouse.gov.

Franklin Matters' 4th of July

Stepping back into the time capsule to see what has been posted here each of the years that Franklin Matters has been around I find:

2012 - "We, the people"

2011 - Family tradition

2010 - Links of Interest on the 4th of July

2009 - Happy 4th of July

2008 - no posting on the 4th, however you can cruise among the archives for the month here:
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2008_07_01_archive.html

2007 - Franklin Matters was 'born' during the year as I was posting on my personal blog and didn't become real until November 2007 when this site came into effective.


Let me remind you that

• If you like what I am doing here, please tell your friends and neighbors
• If you don’t like something, please tell me

Thank you for reading. Enjoy your holiday week!

Franklin's Fireworks - 2012 edition

In lieu of the laser light show replacing the usual 4th of July fireworks, you can step back to last year where I recorded the last 14 minutes of Franklin's fireworks!




Enjoy!

On this day - Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

150 years ago, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 - 3. Pickett's Charge is arguably the critical point of the 3 day fight that allowed the North to turn back the South.

Southern view of Cemetery Ridge before Pickett's Charge

My wife and I visited Gettysburg in 2008 and captured these photos on the visit.

For more about the battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg

Gettysburg Cemetery

The remains of 159 MA soldiers are marked in the cemetery where Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address.

You can find the text of the Gettysburg Address on the Civil War memorial along the main street side of the Town Common.

Franklin - Civil War  Memorial

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

Civil War Memorial - Franklin, MA - Town Common

Have a safe an enjoyable 4th of July!



FYI - Gettysburg is just one of the many sites to be explored on the National Park Service website as mentioned on the Dean College Library blog

to mark the 150^th anniversary of this battleground, the National Park Service (NPS) is giving Gettysburg National Military Park the royal treatment this summer.  From programming for all ages, to remembrance ceremonies of all sorts, there will be an event to meet every need.  Just check out theNational Park Service website for details.