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Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Senate President Spilka: Health and Wellness Fair, & Economic Development recap
The Fraud Squad set to present at the Franklin Senior Center, Nov 10
From the Tri-County RVTHS Instagram we share:
Today (Tuesday, Nov 8), Legal and Protective Services juniors, “The Fraud Squad,” delivered their second of eight presentations to local senior centers warning people about current scams targeting elderly people. Local police officers have informed LPS students about trends in these crimes that aim to scam people out of thousands of dollars every year.
The Fraud Squad’s next presentation will be at the Franklin Senior Center on Thursday at 10:00 AM.
Volunteers needed to help with the Winter Decorating Nov 19 - Maybe that is something you can do?
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Franklin TV and wfpr.fm schedule for Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022
- wfpr.fm or 102.9 on the FM dial = Wednesday
9:00 AM 12:00 Noon and 6:00 PM Franklin Matters Radio/FPS Voice – Steve Sherlock
Franklin and its local government, services and events (repeats Saturday at 9 AM)
- This slot features the Board of Health meeting of 11/02/22 -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/11/board-of-health-hears-from-curry-house.html
10:00 AM 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM The Wonderful World of Wine – Mark Lenzi, Kim Simone All about wine, its culture, lore and finer points
11:00 AM 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM Franklin Matters Radio – Steve Sherlock
Franklin and its local government, services and events (repeats Saturday at 3 PM)
This hour features the recent Town Council Quarterbacking session with Council Chair Tom Mercer as we recap the 11/02/22 meeting and condense it for you -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/11/town-council-quarterbacking-with-tom.html
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 26) = WEDNESDAY
7:30 am It Takes A Village: Janice Houlihan
8:30 am Metrowest Symposium: Sharing Identity on Social Media
10:00 am Arts Advocacy: How-Tos
11:30 am Cooking Thyme: Apple Crisp
12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Stromboli
12:30 pm Sandhya: Macaroons
1:00 pm Norfolk County Prevention Coalition: Healthy Communities
1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: Meat-Lovers Pt. 2
2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Fall 2019 Show 5
3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 7
3:30 pm Metrowest Symposium: Sharing Identity on Social Media
5:30 pm Veterans' Call: VA Pension
6:00 pm Second Sunday Speaker Series: Ted Reinstein
7:30 pm 4th of July 2022: Matt Zajac
- Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 96, Verizon 28) = WEDNESDAY
7:00 am Public School Concert: Sullivan Winter Music 2019
8:30 am Metrowest Arts & Culture Symposium
10:00 am SAFE Coalition: Michelle Palladini
11:00 am Public School Concert: Elementary Winter Music Pt. 1 12-11-18
1:00 pm FHS Girls Varsity Soccer v Milford 10-27-22
2:45 pm FHS Varsity Volleyball: v Attleboro 10-24-22
7:30 pm Let's Talk Sports: Episode 7
8:00 pm FHS Varsity Field Hockey: v Barnstable 11-04-22
- Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 11, Verizon 29) = WEDNESDAY
8:00 am Town Council: 11-02-22
2:00 pm Town Council: 11-02-22
7:00 pm Finance Committee: LIVE, Chambers, 871 5014 5059
Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Town of Franklin - Unofficial - State Election Results - Nov 8, 2022
With a Franklin voter turnout of 14,461 (unofficially) against a total registered voter base of 24,798, the turn out percent is 59.1% (on par with prior State elections)
From the Town Clerk Nancy Denello:
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| Town of Franklin - Unofficial - State Election Results - Nov 8, 2022 |
The schedule for a busy Election Day,. Nov 8, 2022
Voting opens at 6 AM at Franklin High School.
The School Committee has a budget workshop scheduled for 6 PM in the 3rd Floor Training Room. I plan on being there to report/record the meeting.
The School Committee has their organizational meeting and a full agenda scheduled for 7 PM. I will miss the meeting. Franklin TV will record and broadcast via cable, live stream and YouTube.
I'll be at the high school to report on and record the announcement of "unofficial results" when they are available from Town Clerk Nancy Danello after the polls close at 8 PM. (My unofficial "guestimate" ~ 9-9:30 PM at the earliest)
The Election Collection - all the info we have gathered on the local candidates and ballot questions -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/10/election-collection-2022-state-election.html
The map of the 9 precincts for Franklin
Other information can be found on the Town Clerk's page
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| Voting in Franklin on Nov 8, 2022 |
Don't miss your chance to see Cinderella (Broadway Version)!
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FHS girls soccer post 4-0 win to advance; FHS boys soccer wins 1-0 in OT to advance in playoffs
Via HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the fall sports competition for Franklin High School on Monday, November 7, 2022. We also provide the link to the full set of Hockomock League results below.
Boys Soccer = Division 1 = #23 Belmont, 0 @ #10 Franklin, 1 – Final (OT)
Ryan Lanigan, founder and Editor-in-Chief of HockomockSports.com, provides the game recap:
Even in his 52nd year at the helm of the Franklin boys soccer program, legendary head coach Fran Bositis still gets nervous for playoff games.
Finally, in the 87th minute, he was able to breathe a sigh of relief.Senior Trey Lovell scored on a left-footed shot from 25 yards out in the seventh minute of the first overtime to give the 10th-seeded Panthers a 1-0 win over upset-minded #23 Belmont.“I knew right away,” Lovell said of his shot, which floated over the reach of the outstretched Marauder’s keeper. “We didn’t have a lot of shots in the game so we were just trying to do what we could to get a shot off. We got the one that counted so that’s all that matters.”
Continue reading the game recap ->
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| Franklin senior Trey Lovell, who scored the game-winning goal in overtime, makes a pass in the first half. (Ryan Lanigan/HockomockSports.com) |
Girls Soccer = Division 1 = #25 Belmont, 0 @ #8 Franklin, 4 – Final
Ryan Lanigan, founder and Editor-in-Chief of HockomockSports.com, provides the game recap:
"Behind a pair of goals in each half and a strong 80-minute performance, Franklin’s postseason run got off to a great start.Junior Anya Zub scored a hat trick and sophomore Kelly O’Connor added another as the 8th-seeded Panthers quelled the excitement of the visiting 25th-seeded Marauders of Belmont with a convincing 4-0 decision in a Division 1 Round of 32 matchup.“We had a problem early in the year not coming out strong enough so we’ve been pushing and pushing the idea of coming out hard and ready to play,” said Franklin head coach Tom Geysen, “They came out hard tonight and at halftime, we just talked about it being an 80-minute game. The first 40 was yours, you have to make the second 40 yours too. They came out and did exactly that.”
Continue reading the game recap ->
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| Franklin junior Anya Zub celebrates after completing her hat trick in the second half against Belmont. (Ryan Lanigan/HockomockSports.com) |
For other results around the Hockomock League
Representative Roy addresses MassSave payment delays with WCVB Channel 5
Representative Jeffrey N. Roy sat down with WCVB Channel 5’s Ben Simmoneau to talk about problems with Mass Save and the long delays and missing payments due to customers seeking rebates toward new heating units. Ben leads the station’s nationally recognized consumer reporting franchise, “Ben Has Your Back.”
The complete report involving Mass Save can be viewed at https://youtu.be/fe9nhZJ-_VI or https://www.wcvb.com/article/ben-has-your-back-mass-save-payment-delays-heating/41823743.
MassSave is an initiative sponsored by Massachusetts’ natural gas and electric utilities and energy efficiency service providers, including The Berkshire Gas Company, Blackstone Gas Company, Cape Light Compact, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, Eversource, Liberty Utilities, National Grid, and Unitil. The sponsors of MassSave work closely with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources to provide a wide range of services, incentives, trainings, and information promoting energy efficiency that help residents and businesses manage energy use and related costs.
NewsCenter 5 took the complaints about processing delays to Rep. Roy as the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. Rep. Roy has also heard similar complaints directly and has been working with the utilities to make improvements in the service.
"It’s absolutely not satisfactory for there to be long delays in the delivery of payments," Roy said. "A reasonable amount of time to get these rebates is six to eight weeks. Beyond that is unreasonable."
At the start of the year, the state's utilities — which run MassSave — restructured the program with the state’s approval, slashing many rebates for natural gas, oil or propane while increasing money for electric heat and implementing new energy savings programs. The goal is to move homes away from heating directly with fossil fuels and toward what will soon hopefully be a greener electric grid.
Rep. Roy says the utilities blamed those changes for some of the delays. MassSave processes 100,000 rebate submissions every year, which requires a number of due diligence checks. Roy noted that helping folks get their rebates from MassSave is important for our climate change efforts.
But the processing delays are not the only problem. The two customers included in the report both had difficulty getting answers about their checks because of the complex relationship between MassSave and the utilities who actually funnel the money to the program.
Rep. Roy says if delays and communication do not improve, the state will force the utilities to fix it.
"There should be an easy way for you to get information," Roy said. "I don't care whether it's an email or a website, there should be an ombudsman available to address that."
After NewsCenter 5 got involved, both customers got their full rebates right away. MassSave blamed part of the delay on missing information on their applications, but also said both checks were held up by various processing issues.
For more information on Jeffrey Roy, please visit http://jeffreyroy.com/.
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| Representative Roy addresses MassSave payment delays with WCVB Channel 5 |
Franklin Community Cable Access, Inc. dba Franklin●TV (www.franklin.tv) - Part 2 of 2
Franklin Matters – A Critical Collaboration
Some background is pertinent here. Well before the pandemic, a priority for Franklin was to improve the means of communications and information access. This initiative was spearheaded by Jamie Hellen and Council member Glenn Jones. We participated in that effort with Steve Sherlock and Franklin Matters.
Prior to the pandemic we were already working with Steve to expand our collaboration efforts – publishing timely information in easily accessible form wherever possible by all media means: Video, Audio and Text. As stated clearly in our Franklin●TV bylaws, we are charged with, “providing access to existing and future communications media, ... and for the innovative use of … other forms of communications media.”
This directive motivated the launch of our community radio station wfpr●fm, on 102.9. Our collaboration extended Franklin Matters to the airwaves, providing timely information about the pandemic and related matters through Steve’s weekly radio discussions with Franklin officials. Through his hundreds of radio hours, Steve kept information flowing throughout the many months of the pandemic.
As we move beyond the pandemic, we are looking forward to expanding our ongoing collaboration as part of our ‘new normal’ – to “Build Back Better”. Steve’s Franklin Matters, Franklin●TV and wfpr●fm will continue our shared efforts to bring information that citizens can readily Watch, Listen and Read.
A Broadcasting Opportunity, wfpr●fm
WFPR is the public broadcasting extension of F●TV’s media services to Franklin and surrounding towns. Franklin Public Radio went on the air at 10:29 AM on February 2nd 2017.
Like F●TV’s Community Bulletin Board, our wfpr●fm public service announcements inform our listeners about local civic groups and their upcoming events. We promote the good works of civic and pro bono groups. Our mission is to Amplify the Public Good. In 2019 wfpr●fm broadcast more than 30,000 free public service messages, each 20 to 30 seconds long. If your group wishes to expand its outreach on local community radio, call 508-528-9377 to learn more. There is no cost.
WFPR also provides opportunities for local citizens to have a voice by producing their own radio programs or participating as volunteers to make our radio station successful as a local community resource. Volunteers currently produce several regular weekly programs for broadcast over WFPR. These programs also can be heard online at wfpr●fm and as podcasts on their respective websites. In 2020 our volunteers produced over 400 original weekly radio programs.
Scholarships
As part of our continuing commitment to students at Franklin and Tri-County High Schools, Franklin●TV awarded two $1,500 scholarships to 2020 graduates Kathleen O’Neal and James Bullis. They are pursuing media and communications careers. Congratulations and best wishes go out to them as they begin their academic endeavors.
Comcast Negotiations
The 10-year contract between Franklin as the LFA (Local Franchise Authority) and Comcast as cable carrier concluded in December of 2019. A new 10- year contract was finalized in the fall of 2020. The agreement sets the local access fee paid by Comcast subscribers at 5%. It also changes Comcast’s capital expense contribution for equipment from a fixed fee at $30,000/year to an amount determined in part by subscriber revenues.
This change by Comcast addresses an anticipated loss of subscribers over their contract period as more residents engage in cord-cutting; replacing their cable services with Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other internet sources as well as free over-the-air HDTV.
Comcast also agreed to provide Franklin with one HDTV channel where we initially requested three; one for each existing PEG channel. We currently produce all of our programs in high definition. The Comcast HDTV transmission equipment is not yet installed. Their planned installation date is end of 2022.
Our Charter Operations
We support requests from various town agencies and civic organizations for coverage of community events. We cover events that are cultural or institutional in nature and of general interest to the public.
Citizen Access
Residents who produce their own access programs are the owners of these programs. As such, these producers hold their own copyright and may copy and distribute these programs freely, provided that the programs are cablecast on the Franklin system. Per our Public Access charter, we do not provide free equipment for covering private or personal events or for purposes other than generating access programs to be shown over the Franklin cable system We are always interested in training volunteers who would like to learn the craft of video production. Trained volunteers and interns work alongside our roster of free-lance and staff professionals to shoot and edit the institutional programs that we cover.
While visiting our website, also read our informative
F.A.Q. on P/E/G TV studios, their operation, history and charter. We also recommend browsing our past newsletter archives to learn more about Franklin●TV, our growth and development, and the civic events that we cover throughout the year. You can also watch past programs via YouTube video on demand, at www.Franklin●TV, or listen to Franklin Public Radio on 102.9 FM. You can also listen live online or find podcasts of past programs at www.wfpr●fm.
Finally, in closing, “Thanks for watching!”
- and thanks for listening to wfpr●fm.
Respectfully submitted by F●TV’s Board of Directors: Ken Norman, Jay Horrigan, Wesley Rea, John Milot, Anne Bergen, Pandora Carlucci, Rose Turco, Jim Derick and Steve Sherlock
Peter Fasciano, Executive Director, Franklin●TV & wfpr●fm
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State Representative Jeff Roy: Election Day reminder & November newsletter
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