FRI 1/16 6:30pm Art Night Uncorked at Franklin Art Center
FRI 1/16 8pm Frozen Friday DJ Public Skate at Pirelli Arena, Franklin
SAT 1/17 9am-4pm Franklin Public Library Book Sale
SUN 1/18 9am-12pm Franklin Public Library Bag Sale
SUN 1/18 1pm-4pm Ben Franklin’s Birthday Celebration at Franklin Historical Museum, special glass harmonica performance at 1:30pm
TUE 1/20 5:30pm Community Walking: FREE Walk Halls at Franklin High School
WED 1/21 12pm-6pm Workshop Wednesday at The Cake Bar: Cute Bugs Cupcakes
WED 1/21 5:30-7:30pm Community Walking: FREE Walk Track at Franklin High School
WED 1/21 6:30pm Doggie Tales at Franklin Public Library: Read to a therapy dog. Registration required.
WED 1/21 7pm Franklin SEPAC workshop: ADHD and Executive Functioning - free and open to all, Municipal Building
WED 1/21 7pm Lions Heart Teen Service Organization - Parent Info Session at Adirondack Club
THU 1/22 5:30-7:30pm Community Walking: FREE Walk Track at Franklin High School
THU 1/22 6:30-8:30pm Franklin Newcomers Club Outing at Pour Richard’s
For all the Town of Franklin Public Meetings click HERE.
For event details click HERE.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Town Council - Jan 7th video available for viewing
The video from the Town Council meeting on January 7th with the public hearing on the Pond St zoning bylaw change is now available for viewing on the Franklin website.
Thanks to Franklin TV for providing this important video.
You can follow this link
http://view.liveindexer.com/ViewIndexSessionSL.aspx?ecm=635569843478071250&indexSessionSKU=PRUmFH8FY5oVqMDv/lesqA%3D%3D&siteSKU=L7qhQ46xin/r3Z0jcDVCNw%3D%3D
You can also go to the Franklin webpage, from the left column find the "Live Videos and Archive" link and then select the year and month of the video you wish to view.
Also worthy of note, a new sticker has been placed on the bottom of the microphones to indicate the "Mute" buttons more clearly.
"Also, need to mention that the sticker is wrong. By default, the mics are always on and you have to push the button to mute it, meaning, if you want it muted, you'd have to sit there holding the button down the whole time."
Thanks to Franklin TV for providing this important video.
You can follow this link
http://view.liveindexer.com/ViewIndexSessionSL.aspx?ecm=635569843478071250&indexSessionSKU=PRUmFH8FY5oVqMDv/lesqA%3D%3D&siteSKU=L7qhQ46xin/r3Z0jcDVCNw%3D%3D
You can also go to the Franklin webpage, from the left column find the "Live Videos and Archive" link and then select the year and month of the video you wish to view.
Franklin webpage for live video and video archives |
Also worthy of note, a new sticker has been placed on the bottom of the microphones to indicate the "Mute" buttons more clearly.
sticker added to microphones to make it more obvious that there is a mute button |
"Also, need to mention that the sticker is wrong. By default, the mics are always on and you have to push the button to mute it, meaning, if you want it muted, you'd have to sit there holding the button down the whole time."
Senator Spilka: Encouraging Economic Growth and Innovation in Massachusetts
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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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