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| Student Bus registration required for 2020-2021 school year |
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| Election Workers needed for upcoming Primary and State Elections |
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"State Department of Transportation officials have laid out the three-stage process it will likely take to start replacing the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, with the goal of starting construction on the same timeline as laid out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The multiyear process will include preliminary design, a 25% design and then handing it over to a design and building firm for the construction phase, department officials said in an interview with the Times on Tuesday.
The department took the lead on replacing the two 85-year-old bridges last week after signing an agreement with the Corps, the owner of the existing bridges, that would hand over ownership of the newly constructed bridges to the state.
The project was originally going to be done by the Corps, but the state is taking over because Massachusetts transportation officials said it was better suited to build two highway bridges. Replacing the bridges will be the largest construction project on Cape Cod in recent memory, and the state is currently embarking on the preliminary design phase."Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
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| Further updates can be found on the Mass DOT page |
"Parents who are eager to know whether Massachusetts students will return to classrooms this fall will likely have to wait until at least early August for any final decisions.
Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey Riley sent additional guidance on fall reopening plans to school districts on Friday and asked officials not to make any announcements to families at this time.
“While you continue working to flesh out these models, I am requesting that you hold off on announcing any final decisions about what reopening will look like for the fall in your district until early August,” Riley wrote.
In late-June,school districts received Initial Fall School Reopening Guidance, which asked them to prepare a reopening plan that addresses three possible learning models for the fall: a full return to in-person learning with new safety requirements, a hybrid of in-person and remote learning and the continuation of remote learning."Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
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| In the News: DESE requests no announcement of final decisions on re-opening plans |
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| FM #314 School Committee Anti-Racism Resolution Discussion 7/14/20 (audio) |
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| FM #313 Franklin (MA) School Committee Re-Opening Update - 7/14/20 (audio) |
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| School Committee recap: anti-racism taskforce likely to be formed |
Thursday = 10:00a/1:00p/7:00p Frank’s Music – Frank FalveyThe show repeats on Saturday at 10:00 AM
Frank explores a range of music genres and artists
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| Rhiannon Giddens By Schorle - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41615331 |
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| Podcast: The Wonderful World Of Wine (WWW) |
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| Facebook LIVE: Franklin's Top dog drawing - July 15 - 10 AM |
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| Party for the Pantry - Virtually fund raising - Thursday, July 16 |
"These days of rising cases, hospitalizations and now surging deaths can be overwhelming. To help get through this storm, we must keep track of positive developments, too.
Here are six positive developments to remind us that there is hope in this crisis:
- Therapeutic treatments (in addition to what we already have for the most sick patients) will arrive before vaccines. When someone contracts the novel coronavirus, his or her body’s immune system launches a defense, including producing antibodies that circulate in the blood to help identify infectious invaders. These circulating antibodies offer some protection against future infection (for how long, we still don’t know). Scientists have now engineered clones of these antibodies — what we call monoclonal antibodies — and they are showing to be effective both therapeutically and to prevent infection. They work by attacking the spike protein of the coronavirus, which is how this virus gets into our cells. Stop that from happening, and the virus can’t replicate inside the body."
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| From The Washington Post, an article of interest for Franklin |
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| Franklin Residents: Job Opportunities for Fire Dept, DPW |
