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Friday, January 16, 2015
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
What a marked difference for a community meeting
The School Committee meeting on Tuesday had almost as many in the audience as the Town Council did in their last meeting. It was an eventful meeting but more emotionally moving for good reasons.
Two young ladies, seniors at Franklin High School were recognized with the Superintendents Award for being in the Top 1% of their class.
This was followed by a presentation on the special education program. Beth Fitzmaurice was joined by Stephanie Gedis, Dillon Scarnicki, and Sara Mulcahey in making the presentation. Dillon was supported by most of the Franklin Boys Hockey team which he is part of. He showed a brief video clip of his first goal scored!
Fitzmaurice acknowledged that there can be a feeling of isolation for a parent of a special education student, in that there maybe no one to help. In Franklin, there is a community to provide support. The town has been amazing supporting us.
What a marked difference in community presence and meeting conduct.
The School Committee did get into some hard discussions around the capital budget (top priorities outlined here) and on the 2015-16 calendar (the school marking periods and parent meetings still need to be added to this draft). One section of a policy is being retired as it is outdated and covered by other business practices and legal requirements.
Of not, there will likely be a future discussion about the school starting time. Given some studies about high schoolers starting so early and recent weather events where extra time in the morning would make a difference for the safety of all involved with the schools, there is work underway to see if that could be done. Stay tuned as this will be a topic for a future meeting.
The enxt meeting this month will also be held at the Franklin High School. Details on specific location within remained to be announced.
All my notes reported live from the meeting can be found here:
Two young ladies, seniors at Franklin High School were recognized with the Superintendents Award for being in the Top 1% of their class.
(Left to right) Supt. M Sabolinski, H Frank, M Wendell, Sch Comm Chair P Mullen |
This was followed by a presentation on the special education program. Beth Fitzmaurice was joined by Stephanie Gedis, Dillon Scarnicki, and Sara Mulcahey in making the presentation. Dillon was supported by most of the Franklin Boys Hockey team which he is part of. He showed a brief video clip of his first goal scored!
community participating in the School Committee meeting |
What a marked difference in community presence and meeting conduct.
The School Committee did get into some hard discussions around the capital budget (top priorities outlined here) and on the 2015-16 calendar (the school marking periods and parent meetings still need to be added to this draft). One section of a policy is being retired as it is outdated and covered by other business practices and legal requirements.
Of not, there will likely be a future discussion about the school starting time. Given some studies about high schoolers starting so early and recent weather events where extra time in the morning would make a difference for the safety of all involved with the schools, there is work underway to see if that could be done. Stay tuned as this will be a topic for a future meeting.
The enxt meeting this month will also be held at the Franklin High School. Details on specific location within remained to be announced.
All my notes reported live from the meeting can be found here:
MassBudget: New study--Who pays lowest taxes in MA?
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To save some clicks, I went to the report and saved a copy of the MA page here
screen grab of MassBudget webpage |
FHS Hockey takes 'game of the week' over Mansfield
From Hockomock Sports we find the FHS results from competiion on Wednesday. The boys did well to top Mansfield in hockey and wrestling but lost on the track to North Attleboro. The girls track results weren't posted.
Game of the Week - Boys Hockey
Wrestling
Mansfield, 6 @ Franklin, 55 - Final
Boys Track
Franklin, 15 vs. North Attleboro, 85 - Final
Girls Track
Franklin vs. North Attleboro, 4:30 (sorry, no score listed)
Game of the Week - Boys Hockey
Mansfield, 1 @ Franklin, 6 - Final
As it was the "game of the week", there is a full article reporting on the game.
Franklin scored five goals in third period to runaway with a key 6-1 win over Mansfield in a Kelley-Rex showdown.
The Panthers looked like they were going to jump all over the Hornets when Ryan Spillane buried a rebound off his own shot just 40 seconds into the game to make it 1-0, but it took over 30 minutes of game time for Franklin to strike again.
“We came out flying early and I thought we had a really solid first period, we just didn’t have too many goals to show for it,” Franklin head coach Chris Spillane said. “In the second period. [Mansfield] came out flying, they took it too us. They took the wind out of our sails but we in the third we just had to move our legs again. I thought we did a good job forechecking, all four lines out there.”
FHS Hockey celebrates a goal ((Ryan Lanigan/HockomockSports.com) |
Continue reading the article at Hockomock Sports here
Comedy Night January 30th!
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Blackstone River Theatre - Matt & Shannon Heaton with Torrin Ryan & Mark Oien
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
FHS Basketball teams top Foxboro
From Hockomock Sports we find the results of the FHS basketball teams action on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015.
For all the results from Tuesday's action in the Hockomock League
http://www.hockomocksports.com/blog/hockomock-schedule-scoreboard-011315
FHS Panthers |
Boys Basketball
Franklin, 74 @ Foxboro, 42 - Final - Shawn Hanley led Franklin with 15 points while Dylan Reno and Marcus Giese each scored 14 points for the Panthers.
Girls Basketball
Foxboro, 49 @ Franklin, 51 - Final - Kat Tamulionis scored 24 points for Foxboro in the loss.
For all the results from Tuesday's action in the Hockomock League
http://www.hockomocksports.com/blog/hockomock-schedule-scoreboard-011315
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