National Recording Registry Adds 'Rhythm Nation' Among 25 New Selections
Watch the announcement video featuring several of the artists and songwriters. Click here for more information => https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-015/?loclr=ealn
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
2020 Selections to the National Recording Registry Announced
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
FHS Girl Up Club schedules virtual discussion on women's rights - Mar 25, 6:00 PM
From Angelina Perez:
I wanted to let you know about an event that my Girl Up Club is hosting this Thursday (3/25/21) at 6:00 PM. The event will take place via zoom and it is going to be a discussion on gender equality.
This event will also be a place where people can discuss their experiences with sexism and misogyny and also discuss intersectional feminism and gender based violence. The event will be recorded for people to watch.
Anyone is allowed to attend, they don't have to be a member of Girl Up as many FHS students will be in attendance. There will also be Girl Up global leaders/youth activists at the event.
I've attached a pdf flyer that also has the Zoom link attached to it.
Zoom link => https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85127749031?pwd=NUVOTk1Tc0NlME9WUkJUWWNoSnRNZz09
Download a copy of the flyer https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_qA08rXarC6dCZlkXtzsniIakjCSDQB/view?usp=sharing
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| FHS Girl Up Club schedules virtual discussion on women's rights |
FHS Theatre Company to perform Senior Student Directed 1 Acts: 2 plays each on 2 nights
Come support the Franklin High School Theatre Company as they premier the Senior Student Directed One Acts.
Four different performances spanning the course of two evenings:
- What Happens in Neverland, Stays in Neverland directed by Amanda Melmed '21 (March 25th @ 7pm)
- Frankenstein directed by Ben Fine '21 (March 25th @ 745pm)
- Identity Play directed by Bridget Flaherty '21 (March 26th @ 7pm)
- The 9 Worst Breakups of All Time directed by Max Allard '21 (March 26th @ 745pm)
VIRTUAL LIVE STREAM (ALL PATRONS): Note that there are TWO SITES - one for Thursday (3/25) and one for Friday (3/26).
What Happens in Neverland, Stays in Neverland/Frankenstein - Thurs. 3/25/21
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| What Happens in Neverland, Stays in Neverland/Frankenstein - Thurs. 3/25/21 |
Identity Play/The 9 Worst Breakups of All Time - Fri. 3/26/21
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| Identity Play/The 9 Worst Breakups of All Time - Fri. 3/26/21 |
Access to live stream arrives with two different price points: $10.00 for individual access (additional processing fee applies $3.95), and $20.00 for family access (encouraged for viewers of 4+ individuals - additional processing fee applies $3.95).
Here is a guiding document for how to purchase the tickets for the livestream (remember that all patrons have to "make and account" before they can buy - they should do this well before the show, so there are no last minute hiccups.)
Rotary Club of Franklin - Interact Club to meet with Rep. Jeff Roy
Representative Jeffrey Roy has graciously accepted an invitation to meet with the Rotary Club of Franklin Interact Club on April 2, 2021, at 3 PM on the Franklin Town Common.
Rotary Interact Club is for teens 12-18 years of age and come together to complete service projects locally and surrounding towns. A few of our club members are seniors in High School and leaders amongst their peers. They are civic minded and are grateful for the chance to speak to, and ask questions of, one of our own hometown heroes.
"Rotary Club of Franklin MA hopes that our Interact Club teens will be inspired when they hear about the kinds of things expected of a State Representative and what Rep. Roy is doing for the Towns of Franklin and Medway, and also Massachusetts and how they can be involved." said President Judy Alfred.
From the archives:
Franklin Interact Club - project delivers masks to hospital - August 2020
Rotary Club interview - Nov 2020
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/11/fm-400-franklin-ma-rotary-club-111720.html
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/11/fm-400-franklin-ma-rotary-club-111720.html
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| Interact Club to meet with Rep. Jeff Roy (Interact Club twitter image) |
Franklin Public Schools, MA: District News Letter - March 2021
Franklin Public Schools, MA (@FranklinPSNews) tweeted on Tue, Mar 23, 2021:
"Hello FPS! Please find the March edition of the District Newsletter posted here: https://t.co/rTxzTzqeXA " or here
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| Franklin Public Schools, MA: District News Letter - March 2021 |
Shared from Twitter: https://t.co/BxuL8s1V2f
One interesting piece is the budget video https://youtu.be/IXI95zuFbnw
Hockomock League: Hockomock League Fall II Update on Away Spectators
"Effective immediately, the Hockomock League will allow 2 AWAY family members of SENIOR student-athletes to attend all varsity games. This policy will include all league sports offered during the Fall II season: Cheerleading, Football, Volleyball, Track and Field, and Unified Basketball.
Going forward, the Athletic Directors will continue to monitor information as it is made available from the EEA, DESE, and our local Boards of Health. Each district has the ability to make this policy more restrictive based on its own facility limitations and/or local Board of Health restrictions. It is our goal to focus on the health and safety of our communities while safely permitting family members the opportunity to watch high school sports in person. "
Shared from the Hockomock League page:
https://hockomockleague.blogspot.com/2021/03/hockomock-league-fall-ii-update-on-away.html
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| Hockomock League Fall II Update on Away Spectators |
MA State News: "Should we still call it ‘commuter’ rail?"; uncertainty in the vaccine numbers
"Should we still call it ‘commuter’ rail?"
"The MBTA is launching a fairly radical change to its commuter rail operations on April 5, running fewer trains at the traditional morning and evening peaks and spreading service out at regular intervals over the course of the day – what some call regional rail.
On the Framingham-Worcester line, trains currently depart from Worcester for Boston at 5:30 a.m., 7 a.m., and 8:50 a.m. and then run at roughly two-hour intervals the rest of the day. Under the new approach starting April 5, the first train from Worcester will depart at 4:15 a.m., the next train at 5 a.m., and then trains will depart every hour on the hour for the rest of the day until 7 p.m. The three late-night trains will depart at 8:20, 9:20, and 10:20.
The idea behind the scheduling experiment is that COVID has disrupted ridership patterns. No one is quite sure what riders will want in the future, but the feeling is that they will no longer rigidly commute into work in the morning and return in the evening. They want more flexibility and greater frequency. And they want schedules that are easy to remember."
Continue reading the article online
"WHEN THE MASSACHUSETTS COVID-19 Command Center calculates how many people are eligible for vaccinations in each of the state’s three phases, there’s a problem: The total number is 1 million more adults than actually live in the state.The main reason is that the state is double counting many individuals in these estimates.As a result, while the Command Center has said an estimated 2.55 million people could become eligible for vaccinations in the final group – generally healthy people between ages 16 and 55 who are not essential workers – the uncertainty in the numbers raises the possibility that the final group may be smaller than expected."
Continue reading the article online
Note: This another symptom of the lack of a fully integrated and functioning public health infrastructure. The Commonwealth has various sources of data about the population (voter records, driver licenses, tax records, etc.) yet they lack the cohesiveness of a central repository of our population so we could know our count and categorizations without double counting. The repository would drive the planning already done by the local departments of health to enable the timely and accurate delivery of a vaccine or anything health related to all.
Cultural District planning session for ArtWALK - Mar 25, 7:00 PM
The Franklin Cultural District Committee has begun planning for the upcoming ArtWALK Celebration which will be held on the weekend of June 11th - 13th. This Thursday, March 25th at 7:00 p.m. the committee is inviting all of our Cultural District Partners to join us in our first collaborative planning meeting. The meeting will be held via the zoom platform. Below you will find the zoom link for this meeting.
The Cultural District Committee is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Cultural District Committee, Cultural District Partners Event Planning Meeting
March 25, 2021 7:00 PM
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,83387368806# US (Washington DC)
Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 833 8736 8806
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVvZiUkbc
+13017158592,,83387368806# US (Washington DC)
Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 833 8736 8806
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVvZiUkbc
Attached you will find the agenda for the meeting.
As we look forward to this event, we hope that all of our partners will take part in the planning
by joining one of the working groups. We will discuss these groups at our meeting on Thursday.
by joining one of the working groups. We will discuss these groups at our meeting on Thursday.
We hope to see you all there.
Regards,
Nancy Schoen
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| Cultural District planning session for ArtWALK - Mar 25, 7:00 PM |
National news: Post Office performance to slow mail; Some news orgs following Russian model
"Slower mail, fewer office hours part of Postal Service plans"
"Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday announced plans to slow mail delivery standards and cut hours at some post offices as part of a 10-year strategy to stabilize the struggling agency.
Details of the long-awaited plan come at a time of intense scrutiny on the US Postal Service over persistent delivery delays under DeJoy, a major GOP donor who took over the agency last summer. The plan also includes a proposal to consolidate underused post offices, hinted at a potential postage rate increase and detailed investments in new delivery vehicles, among other things.
Facing an expected $160 billion in losses over the next decade, DeJoy and postal executives stressed the need to cut costs and modernize the agency's operations as its workload increasingly shifts from handling letters to hauling more and more packages."
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
"Specifically, Pomerantsev points to two major areas of strategic overlap. First, there’s a shared war on facts that tries to convince the viewer that accountability is a fool’s errand because true objectivity does not exist.Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
“There’s this kind of pop-postmodernism, where Sean Hannity will say things like objectivity doesn’t exist, everybody’s biased,” Pomerantsev says. He points to Hannity’s infamous interview with Ted Koppel, in which he contrasted his own style with what he sees as the charade of “objective” facts in other areas of the press. “I don’t pretend that I’m fair and balanced and objective,” Hannity bizarrely boasted.
“That’s exactly the same argument the Russians make,” Pomerantsev says. He recalls a famous phrase uttered by Dmitry Kiselev, a prime-time TV host who was also appointed by Vladimir Putin to run Kremlin’s international propaganda network, Rossiya Segodnya. “Objectivity is a myth that is proposed and imposed on us.”
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Town of Franklin, MA: A resource of available trails and paths for our community
Town of Franklin, MA (@TOFranklinMA) tweeted on Mon, Mar 22, 2021:
"Hello Franklin! It's gorgeous out there today! Perhaps you can find a bit of time to go for a walk! Our Trails & Walking Paths Storymap is a great resource to find places to go in Town.
Enjoy the day!" https://t.co/vofhNYMjEO
Shared from Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOFranklinMA/status/1374019648707002369
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| A resource of available trails and paths for our community |
Community Conversation on Police Reform - Mar 24, 2021 - 7:00 PM
Franklin Area Against Racism (FAAR) is hosting a Community Conversation on Police Reform.
When: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 7:00 PM
- Senator Becca Rausch
- Representative Jeff Roy
- Franklin Police Dept. Chief Thomas J. Lynch
- Franklin Police Dept. Deputy Chief James Mill
- and other community leaders
More details, including the Zoom link, in the image below.
In preparation for the Community Conversation Wednesday on Police Reform, here is the collection of articles on the legislation as it passed both Senate and House in December, got returned by Gov Baker, was revised and sent back to Gov Baker who signed the legislation on Dec 31, 2020. (Note: The Boston Globe links may require a subscription. The other links will not.)
MA Legislature press release
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/legislature-passes-policing-reform.html
Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/01/opinion/police-reform-bill-historic-just-beginning/
Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/09/opinion/governor-baker-should-sign-police-reform-bill/
Gov Baker rejects, sends back
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/10/metro/baker-sends-police-bill-back-legislature-asking-changes/
CommonWealth on Senate compromise
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/senate-to-compromise-with-baker-on-police-reform-bill/
Senate press release on passage
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/senate-advances-police-reform.html
Globe/CommonWealth report on House passage
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/police-reform-and-abortion-measures.html
MA Legislation link
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2020/Chapter253
Gov Baker press release
https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-baker-signs-police-reform-legislation
Globe on 12/31/20 after Gov Baker signs
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/metro/governor-baker-signs-landmark-policing-reform-law/
Globe on roadmap future
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/opinion/police-reform-roadmap-future/
Globe on what’s in/out
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/metro/heres-whats-police-reform-bill-governor-baker-signed-into-law/
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/legislature-passes-policing-reform.html
Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/01/opinion/police-reform-bill-historic-just-beginning/
Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/09/opinion/governor-baker-should-sign-police-reform-bill/
Gov Baker rejects, sends back
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/10/metro/baker-sends-police-bill-back-legislature-asking-changes/
CommonWealth on Senate compromise
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/senate-to-compromise-with-baker-on-police-reform-bill/
Senate press release on passage
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/senate-advances-police-reform.html
Globe/CommonWealth report on House passage
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/12/police-reform-and-abortion-measures.html
MA Legislation link
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2020/Chapter253
Gov Baker press release
https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-baker-signs-police-reform-legislation
Globe on 12/31/20 after Gov Baker signs
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/metro/governor-baker-signs-landmark-policing-reform-law/
Globe on roadmap future
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/opinion/police-reform-roadmap-future/
Globe on what’s in/out
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/31/metro/heres-whats-police-reform-bill-governor-baker-signed-into-law/
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| Community Conversation on Police Reform - March 24, 2021 |
FHS volleyball tops Taunton 3-0
From HockomockSports.com and Twitter we share the FHS sports results:
Volleyball = Franklin, 3 @ Taunton, 0 – Final
– Franklin bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 3-0 (25-13, 25-14, 25-19) win on the road at Taunton. Cailyn Mackintosh dished out 26 assists in the win while Ally Bonnet-Eymard (eight kills) and Taylor Lacerda (six kills) paced the offense.
For other results around the Hockomock League
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| FHS volleyball tops Taunton 3-0 |
MIAA updates guidelines
MIAA (@MIAA033) tweeted on Mon, Mar 22, 2021:
🔗https://t.co/1VXiuzaiv1 or http://miaa.net/contentm/easy_pages/view.php?sid=38&page_id=291
#OneTeamOneMIAA #maskupMIAA😷 @MSSADA9 @MSAA_33 @PVIAC @RpearsonMIAA_MS @sbryantMIAA @Napa13 @LeagueBoston
Shared from Twitter: https://twitter.com/MIAA033/status/1374073460629114890
Read how updated @MassEEA guidelines impacts #MIAA sports ⬇️
🔗https://t.co/1VXiuzaiv1 or http://miaa.net/contentm/easy_pages/view.php?sid=38&page_id=291
#OneTeamOneMIAA #maskupMIAA😷 @MSSADA9 @MSAA_33 @PVIAC @RpearsonMIAA_MS @sbryantMIAA @Napa13 @LeagueBoston
Shared from Twitter: https://twitter.com/MIAA033/status/1374073460629114890
@MassEEA guidelines:
Polar Park will not be Fenway
"Before they built Polar Park, the Worcester Red Sox hosted 21 fan meetings and jotted down 877 ideas. One thing was crystal clear: Worcester didn’t want its new stadium to be Fenway Park.
“Worcester wanted something different. They didn’t want to be Fenway green,” says Dr. Charles Steinberg, Worcester Red Sox president. So most everything will be blue; from the understated industrial corrugated metal exterior to the blue seats and 22-foot blue Worcester Wall in right field with seats and a fan deck.
No Green Monster in left?
“There was a naturalness to the Green Monster that we didn’t want to force,” says chairman and principal owner Larry Lucchino. “And there was a hill in right field that we needed to build a wall in front of.”
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/22/sports/worcesters-new-stadium-polar-opposite-fenway-park/
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50+ Session on LinkedIn Profiles - Starts Tuesday - Mar 23, 2021
Interactive Workshop Series: Session #6
Creating a Robust LinkedIn Profile
Offered: Tue Mar 23rd 10-12N; Fri Mar 26th 1-3pm;
and Mon Apr 5th 6:30-8:30pm
Virtual Doors open 15 minutes before session begins.
Workshops begin promptly at the listed start time.
Facilitators: Melody Beach and Ed Lawrence
During the 6th session in our 12-part Interactive Workshop Series, we discuss LinkedIn, specifically the elements for a powerful profile.
Join us---Learn the elements that will turn your passive profile into an active one. Just having a LinkedIn isn't enough---It's expected.
This session is the first of two sessions that focus using LinkedIn effectively during your job-search.
This session isn't just a one-way presentation; it's interactive; poses questions; presents real-time exercises; and challenges your mindset. In addition, it provides time for you to network with other 50+ Job Seekers.
If you have previously attended a 50+ session, to attend this LinkedIn session, use the link we sent you previously to join one of the resume sessions.
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New to the program? Registration is Required:
https://50plusjobseekers.org/outreach/registration/
FHS' Boys and Girls Hockomock League Swimming All Stars - 2021
We share the official 2021 Hockomock League Boys and Girls Swimming All Stars, selected by the coaches in the league. Here are the Franklin selections and the links to each of the boys and girls list for the complete Hockomock League list.
** Boys All Stars
Kelley-Rex Division MVP
Timothy Luc, Taunton
Kelley-Rex Division All Stars
Bleddyn Titmuss, Franklin
Brendan Lapuma, Franklin
Luke Cashin, Franklin
Timothy Luc, Taunton
Kelley-Rex Division All Stars
Bleddyn Titmuss, Franklin
Brendan Lapuma, Franklin
Luke Cashin, Franklin
** Girls All Stars
Kelley-Rex Division MVP
Megan Campbell, King Philip
Kelley-Rex Division All Stars
Madison Lawlor, Franklin
Sydney Bourgeois, Franklin
Christine Tang, Franklin
Alyssa LaPuma, Franklin
Emma Ferreira, Franklin
Linnea Remillard, Franklin
Kathryn Chew, Franklin
For the complete listings
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| FHS' Boys and Girls Hockomock League Swimming All Stars - 2021 |
MA State News: unemployment insurance bill; cannabis local impact fee questioned
"Lawmakers find common ground on unemployment insurance bill"
"TIME-SENSITIVE LEGISLATION aimed at stabilizing the state’s unemployment system, providing targeted tax relief to employers and workers, and creating a COVID-19 emergency sick leave program requires one final vote in each chamber after the House and Senate reached agreement on the bill’s details Monday.
After hours of talks, lawmakers ironed out differences between the underlying versions of the bill to produce a compromise without a formal conference committee, teeing up the roughly $351 million bill and its $7 billion borrowing authorization to reach Gov. Charlie Baker as soon as Thursday.
The branches agreed on most aspects of the bill in their respective versions, but took different approaches to tax breaks on unemployment benefits, a commission studying the unemployment system, and length of the special obligation bonds that will be issued to help the state cover massive demands on its benefits system."
Continue reading the article online https://commonwealthmagazine.org/economy/lawmakers-find-common-ground-on-unemployment-insurance-bill/
"3% cannabis impact fee covers costs that don’t exist"
"IN 2017, Massachusetts lawmakers revised the cannabis legalization ballot measure approved by voters the year before. They made improvements, such as expanding the Cannabis Control Commission from three members to five, and increasing the local tax option from 2 percent to 3 percent.
They also made mistakes, including mandating host community agreements between municipalities and cannabis operators that allowed towns to collect an additional 3 percent of gross sales. This stream of funds was meant to offset costs imposed upon the municipality “by the operation of the marijuana establishment.”
After more than two years of legal cannabis sales, it’s hard to make a case that towns have incurred any such costs. There have been no reported incidents of sales to minors, no reports of increased crime around cannabis stores, no reported increase in cannabis-intoxicated driving arrests, no reported impacts on nearby businesses or neighborhoods, and no reported staffing or budget increases in police, fire, or health departments attributable to cannabis stores."
Continue reading the article online
The Hill: "Enemy within: Experts warn US not learning from past pandemic mistakes"
"When it comes to combating COVID-19, experts and officials warn the U.S. is its own worst enemy as governors across the country lift restrictions and the public grows increasingly weary of pandemic life.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Monday that the U.S. is at “a fork in the road” on the pandemic, with the two extremes perhaps best illustrated by spring breakers partying in Florida over the weekend while about 1,000 people are dying of COVID-19 every day.
Despite an aggressive pace of vaccination, the number of new infections across the country is rising in states across the Northeast and Upper Midwest and has essentially plateaued nationally. "
Continue reading the article online
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