Dean College scholarship winners announced - Ethan Pflomm & Caleigh Brown |
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Dean College scholarship winners announced - Ethan Pflomm & Caleigh Brown
Boston Globe Schools: "Franklin Post 75′s American Legion state champions"
"Alfred Mucciarone was not pleased with how the spring high school baseball season ended.After Franklin lost in the state championship for the second year in a row, Mucciarone was left to decide how he would spend his final summer before playing in college at UMass-Lowell.Why not play for his town one more time?Mucciarone is one of a number of local seniors on the Franklin Post 75 Legion baseball team, which won its second straight state title Friday by defeating Shrewsbury Post 397, 6-5, at Mahan Field."
"For Franklin Post 75′s American Legion state champions, representing their town one more time meant everything https://t.co/5SwNrjrAt5"
MARK STOCKWELL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE |
How late is the State budget? Really? What is in the state budget is the more important question!
Just how late was the annual state budget lawmakers sent to Gov. Healey on Monday?
Only three other budgets since FY2000 have been completed later, one of which was in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, per @masstaxpayersfd data. #mapoli https://t.co/MjQF0gjlqs
What is in the state budget is the more important question! |
"Less than 24 hours after negotiators inked a compromise on a $56.2 billion annual spending plan, House and Senate lawmakers, with little debate, voted Monday to send the fiscal year 2024 package to Governor Maura Healey.The chambers’ action on the budget legislation, representing a record level of spending, came nearly a month after the July 1 deadline for the start of the new fiscal year.The budget is now in Healey’s hands for the next 10 days, and what happens next remains to be seen. Lawmakers used the governor’s budget proposal as a roadmap in crafting their own, but she could seek to further shape the spending plan, the first of her term in the corner office."
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Watch "This is Earth in the next 100 years if we don't act on climate change | Ways to Change the World" on YouTube
This is Earth in the next 100 years if we don't act on climate change |
Franklin TV and wfpr.fm schedule for Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023
- wfpr.fm or 102.9 on the FM dial = Tuesday
2 hours. An insightful tour of Jazz Greats in a golden era
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 26) = TUESDAY
- Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 96, Verizon 28) = TUESDAY
- Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 11, Verizon 29) = TUESDAY
The "All About Sewer" series
These three sessions of the radio show share my conversation with Doug Martin, Franklin’s Water and Sewer Superintendent and Jake Standly, the Assistant Water/Sewer Superintendent.
We had our conversation in the Franklin Public Radio studios on Hutchinson St.
This is one of three in a series exploring the status and operations of the Franklin’s Water & Sewer Division. During 2021, we did a 3-part series on the water supply. With the Beaver St interceptor project starting later this year, we decided to cover the sewer side of the business. A little more dirty talk although we do start out with some updates on water.
Part 1 -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2023/07/all-about-town-of-franklin-sewer.html
Part 2 -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2023/07/all-about-town-of-franklin-sewer_02109748944.html
Part 3 -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2023/07/all-about-town-of-franklin-sewer_0306615856.html
The 3 part water series can be found ->
Monday, July 31, 2023
20th Annual Harvest Festival - planning underway for September 30, 2023
20th Annual Harvest Festival - planning underway for September 30, 2023 |
"In our darkest hour, hope lingers here"
"I will not hate, and I will not fearIn our darkest hour, hope lingers here"
"In our darkest hour, hope lingers here" |
Good Deeds: Norfolk County Destination Locations
Good Deeds: Norfolk County Destination Locations |
How are boat wakes related to duck wakes? It is explained via math
"If you look at the wake behind a duck, or a kayak, or a ship, you might notice two things: first, it’s a feathery, rippled pattern, and second, that pattern looks the same regardless of whether it’s made by a duck, kayak, or ship— even though they’re all moving at different speeds and the waves are different sizes.
How is this possible? Minutephysics digs into the Kelvin wake pattern."The 4+ minute video explains the math -> https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/kEQUGWqB?s=03#review
How are boat wakes related to duck wakes? |
Franklin TV and wfpr.fm schedule for Monday, July 31, 2023
- wfpr.fm or 102.9 on the FM dial = Monday
2 hours of awesome blues music, info, interviews
- Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 8, Verizon 26) = MONDAY
- Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel (Comcast 96, Verizon 28) = MONDAY
- Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 11, Verizon 29) = MONDAY
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Joint Budget Subcommittee Meeting - August 2, 2023 at 7 PM
Joint Budget Subcommittee
The Joint Budget Subcommittee will meet on August 2, 2023 at 7 PM.
Please note, this meeting will include a review of the Town Administrator's 5 Year Fiscal Forecast as well as a slideshow presentation regarding an Override (Override 101 & Override History in Franklin).
You may access the agenda and links for the meeting here: https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/august_2_2023_joint_budget_subcommittee_agenda.pdf
Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/home/news/joint-budget-subcommittee-august-2nd-2023
Joint Budget Subcommittee Meeting - August 2, 2023 at 7 PM |
Franklin Historical Museum: Second Sunday Speaker for August features "MASS - The Library State"
Admission is always free and we are ADA accessible.
Be sure to visit our gift shop which is run by the Friends of the Franklin Historical Museum.
Franklin TV: Streaming – an Observation
Cable Cord-Cutting Continues
On July-27 Alan Earls penned an insightful report in The Franklin Observer about cord-cutting and the state’s legislative efforts to ensure the viability of local media studios like Franklin●TV.
As subscribers cancel their cable subscriptions, we see our revenues drop off. Currently, Franklin.TV has seen a 15% drop in revenue over the last 5 years. We also must contend with all the same inflationary costs that everyone faces.
Crafting such legislation is a Solomonic task. The Massachusetts House and Senate have bills currently being considered on Beacon Hill. The “Act to Modernize Funding for Community Media Programming” has a version in the House, H.74. A similar measure, S.34, is moving in the Senate. The bills seek to ensure that streaming services (Netflix, Apple+, Prime, Paramount, et al) meet the same financial obligation to support local media that the cable companies (Comcast, Verizon) currently do.
Per State Rep. Jeff Roy, H. 74, “is a bill that is worth considering as it would bolster accessibility, civic engagement, and transparency of government operations,”. At a time of dwindling newspaper coverage, this legislation would help municipal TV studios to continue covering and broadcasting matters of great interest to citizens. “It would simply replace the current fees on cable companies and requiring streaming services to step up to the plate,” he continued. “I look forward to reviewing the committee’s report on the proposal,” he added.
The City of Chicago successfully enacted similar legislation 5 years ago in an effort to keep pace with changing times and technology.
We applaud the work of the Massachusetts Telecom Committee, the House and Senate and their efforts to timely and reasonably address the needs of local media centers. Without this legislation, smaller communities are at risk of seeing their local PEG media services merge into regional centers (less local) or vanish entirely.
And – as always –
Thank you for listening to wfpr●fm.
And, thank you for watching.
Thrifty Threads opens during the Farmers Market on Friday's
- The THRIFT SHOP is open on Fridays from 2 to 5 PM.
The THRIFT SHOP, a mission of the Franklin Federated Church, is being established to support our covenant to be “A Community of Abundant Welcome to All, Growing Together in Christ and Serving with Love.” We want to provide affordable clothing to the local community. Our church supports many mission projects like the Franklin Food Pantry, Gilly House, and Common Cathedral in Boston as well as donations to charities to support families in need like New Hope in Attleboro. We view this volunteer run, donation-based shop as another way to serve and give back to the community.For more about the Thrift shop -> https://franklinfederated.org/thriftshop
the basement hallway |
a welcoming space with sections marked |
a room with children's clothing |
Thrifty Threads opens during the Farmers Market on Friday's |
Have you read the Town of Franklin water quality report?
post card announcing the water quality report |
The Consumer Confidence Reports for this year and prior years can be found on the Town's webpage.
- The current report -> https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/uploads/franklinccr2022_updated.pdf
- The archive for all reports -> https://www.franklinma.gov/water-sewer-division/pages/consumer-confidence-reports