Franklin Cub Scout Recruitment Day! This SUNDAY - Oct 23

Franklin Cub Scout Recruitment Day! This SUNDAY!

• When: Sunday, October 23rd 12 Noon to 2:00 PM
• Where: Beaver Pond - Beaver Street
• Who: All Boys in Kindergarten - Fifth Grade

Are you interested in Cub Scouts for your son? It's never too late to sign up! Join us at Beaver Pond on Sunday October 23rd from 12pm-2pm to learn more about scouting. There will be fun scouting activities (pinewood derby test track, rubber band target practice) and local pack leaders will be available to answer questions.

Hope to see you there!

Franklin Cub Scout Recruitment Day! This SUNDAY - Oct 23

The Daigles play a "Peter, Paul and Mary Tribute" - Oct 22

The Daigles play a "Peter, Paul and Mary Tribute"

​​Andy and Judy Daigle have performed in New England since 2009, and with their son Greg have been well-received with their tribute to Peter, Paul and Mary.

 The Daigles play a "Peter, Paul and Mary Tribute" - Oct 22

Where
This is a non-profit, volunteer-run series of music events at the Original Congregational Church, Wrentham, Massachusetts

When
Staturday, Oct 22
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

More info on the OCC webpage  
http://www.musicatocc.org/upcoming-shows.html

In the News: drought continues, craft brewing in Hopkinton

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:

"Occasional showers with above normal temperatures in the past week did not help drought conditions in Massachusetts, according to the weekly report by the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday. 

The report shows 37.83 percent of the state is still in extreme drought, the second highest category of drought. That figure is unchanged from last week. More than 87 percent of the state is in at least severe drought, a slight rise from last week's figure of 83.7 percent. 

There may be some relief in the next several days. Rain is forecast Thursday night through Saturday morning. More than two inches of rain could fall in some areas, especially with the risk of thunderstorms Friday night."

Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161020/extreme-drought-persists-in-mass

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/mapsanddata/maparchive.aspx

A small craft brewery, hoping to open at Water Fresh Farm, is seeking permission to serve its products to customers on the premises. 

Start Line Brewery is set to open mid-November, said Edwin Twinney, owner and operating manager. 

"We are just doing final testing and hope to be brewing soon," he said. 

In the meantime, the company, CraftLife Brewing Co., will go before selectmen Tuesday night to seek the farmer-brewing pouring permit. Twinney said he already has a license to sell products for off-premise consumption.

Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161020/hopkinton-start-line-brewing-seeks-pouring-license

Previews of the new Town of Franklin webpage

What will the new Town of Franklin website look like? Deputy Town Administrator Jamie Hellen provided several screenshots (shown below) and a list of the features as a result of the upgrade:

• There will be email subscription pages for Town Council agendas and roll calls, all legal notices and public hearings, and job postings. Anyone can subscribe to email lists to get notices on those topics and more
• A new GIS and Maps page focusing on the wealth of GIS services the town has, and some fun maps to browse
• A new Franklin Development site filled with information and available sites for commercial development, as well as a wealth of town demographic information
• A new 'one stop shop' for all social media accounts for the town and school departments and organizations
• Revamped calendar with auto downloads to smartphone calendars and RSS feeds
• A new Town Council page, with member profiles and subcommittee information
• A "Meet Me in Franklin" page that highlights some of the unique places of interest for residents and visitors of Franklin
• Town Blog for the most up to date news
• An ever changing rotation of pictures of Franklin throughout the site
• Enhanced search capabilities
• Customer service request forms
• And much more ...

Instead of using Franklin.MA.US you can now go to FranklinMA.GOV

new Town of Franklin home page

new Town of Franklin - Town Administrator page

new Town of Franklin - calendar page

new Town of Franklin - Town Clerk page

new Town of Franklin - online payments page

new Town of Franklin - social media accounts page. Want to follow the Twitter account or Facebook page?

To repeat what was mentioned in the post earlier this week
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2016/10/overhauled-in-effort-to-make-it-more.html

One of the drawbacks of the new site will be the links from here to the Franklin website will break. There is supposed to be a landing page for those who find a broken link with advice for what to do next. As most of the content did get copied over to the new site, a search of the new site should find it.

If what you look for you find here and don't successfully link to there, let me know. There are thousands of possible links to fix and I will do them upon request.

I had a habit of making my own copy of most documents to always provide a good link for readers. This was especially the case for something posted to the 'Franklin News" page which was cleaned out periodically (and broke all the links as soon as the cleaning took place).

While there are thousands of links that could break, I hope that you won't find too many. If you do, please comment on that posting or send me an email (shersteve @ gmail. dot com), and I'll find the doc and fix the link.

Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli at 2016 Franklin Cultural Festival (video)

Turning back time (or #TBT) to that Saturday in July when THE BLACK BOX had two stages going for a full day of musical performances.

Here is a sample of the performance by Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli at THE BLACK BOX under the tent on the outdoor stage presented by the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse.




For more about Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli visit http://loridiamond.net/

 

Lori Diamond - Fred Abatelli performing (photo by Jake Jacobson)

FHS has a good day against Taunton with 4 wins and a tie

From Hockomock Sports we share the FHS fall sports results from Wednesday, Oct 19

*** Boys Soccer = Taunton, 1 @ Franklin, 1 – Final 

– Farley Asmath opened the scoring in the 39th minute off a feed from freshman Sam Stowell to put Franklin up 1-0 but Taunton’s Daeshawn Duffie answered a minute later to level the match just before half.

A full recap of the game by student reporter Joe Clark can be found here
https://hockomocksports.com/franklin-taunton-trade-first-half-goals-draw/

*** Girls Soccer = Franklin, 2 @ Taunton, 0 – Final

*** Volleyball = Taunton, 0 @ Franklin, 3 – Final 

– Erin Skidmore led the Panthers with 10 kills, eight digs and two aces while Maddie Kuzio added 19 digs, two aces and a kill and Meaghan Maguire finished with four kills and three blocks.

*** Field Hockey = Taunton, 0 @ Franklin, 5 

FHS Panthers

– Final – Franklin senior Nicole Denommee scored her first varsity goal on the while Annie Walsh, Alex Sullivan, Cassi Ronan and Caroline Lounsbury each scored once. Senior Samantha Hertzberg got the shutout in goal making three saves.

*** Golf = Taunton, 166 @ Franklin, 164 – Final 

– Matt D’Errico led Franklin with a 38 while Bryan Woelfel carded a 39 for the Panthers. Taunton’s Mike Volkmann and Justin Proto shared match medalist honors, shooting 36 on the day.



For all the results around the Hockomock League
https://hockomocksports.com/wednesdays-schedule-scoreboard-101916/

A new edition of The Franklin Connection is available

A new edition of The Franklin Connection has been published on the Town of Franklin web site.

Click the link below to read the latest edition.

http://town.franklin.ma.us/Pages/FranklinMA_Senior/nov16connection.pdf

Franklin Senior Center - Memory Cafe Thursday, Oct 20