Traveling Zoo at Pinefield Shopping Center, June 9th through 13th, 2010.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – If you head down to Pinefield Shopping Center this week you might find a camel or kangaroo in your usual parking spot.
Once again, Records & Burpee Traveling Zoo will be set up in the parking lot directly across from the McAullife Branch Library June 9 – 13, 2010 from 11:00am until approximately 9:00pm.
The kids petting zoo, camel rides, pony rides, moonwalk rides and carnival foods concessions, (cotton candy, carmel apples, fried dough and more), are always a popular end of the school year treat for families with young kids.
The Traveling Zoo, named for owners Larry Records and Alexandra Burpee usually arrive with (more…)
Circus Una, all female highwire, trapeze and motorcycle daredevil performers at Paramount Harley-Davidson, Framingham, MA, June 5, 2010.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Circus Una, a female daredevil duo will be performing outdoors in the Paramount Harley-Davidson parking lot on Saturday, June 5, 2010.
The star of the show, Una Mimnagh, performs aerial feats and dances on a trapeze suspended from a motorcycle while it’s ridden across a high wire. Una will be performing at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Una’s performances are part of Paramount Harley-Davidson’s open house event. In addition to the high-wire act, Richard Turner, “The Cheat” will be performing dazzling sleight of hand card manipulations. There will be a kids corner with family fun activities, music, food, prize give-aways, (along vendors and open house specials on motorcycle gear).
Also planned for the day is a H.O.G., (Harely Owners Group), Motorcycle Show with judging starting at noon and and trophy’s awarded at 3:00pm. While you’re checking out the bikes, grab a $5 per plate BBQ lunch“while it lasts”.
Events are planned throughout the day, from 9:30am until 4:30pm.
Paramount Harley-Davidson is located at 266-300 Waverly Street, (Route 135), Downtown Framingham, MA.
Nick Ferrera, Quarterback for the Metrowest Colonials on the gridiron.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Metrowest Colonials, a Framingham based semi-pro football team is scheduled to play the first three games of it’s season at Framingham State College‘s football stadium on July 17, 24 and 31, 2010. Adult tickets are $6.00, Teens 13-18 and Seniors are $3.00, and kids 12 and under are free.
The “double-A” team, which is owned and managed by Framingham resident Mario Alvarez is affiliated with the NEFL, (New England Football League), the largest semi-pro league in the country. The NEFL is also the only league that is sanctioned by the NCAA, (National Collegiate Athletic Association).
Alvarez explained that the NEFL, which was started in 1994 with just four teams now runs three divisions,(A, Double-A, and Triple-A), and has forty-three teams.
The league serves as a regional alternative for players who either do not attend college or attend a school which doesn’t have a football team. The NEFL which has seen expansion nearly every year since it’s inception now organizes what is referred to as “NEFL2“, a developmental league which provides new (more…)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Fox News has a feature called “Zip Trips” where they visit a city or town and show off the local legends and lore, best eateries and top students, and whatever info they can to help promote the “best of” that town.
On Friday June 18, 2010, Fox News will be Zip Tripping to Framingham and broadcasting from Cushing Memorial Park.
To prepare for the trips, Fox News runs a “Town Poll” — an online questionnaire to collect info and suggestions from citizens of the Town.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – The 2010 Town of Framingham “Concerts on the Green” summer concert series opens June 4th with the Framingham High School Band kicking off the season. The concerts, held Friday nights from 6:30pm – 8:30pm on the Framingham Centre Common feature acts performing music from all genres; country western, bluegrass, big band, gospel, techno-pop, oldies and classic rock cover bands.
This summer’s lineup includes: The Framingham High School Band, Chad Burdick, Marshalee, Summer Street Band, Off the Hook, Sound Assembly Chorus, HELP! (Beatles cover band), The Reminisants, The Glamour Girls, The Infractions, John Penny Band, The Skinny Ties, Amy Gallatin and the Tom Nutile Orchestra.
There is no charge, (concerts are free to the general public), but the organizers would appreciate if concert-goers bring and donate (more…)
BOSTON, MA – In the old days, when Massachusetts State government had items to auction off they would publish a public notice in several major newspapers and mail out a list to a few hundred in-the-know auction hounds, junk dealers, surplus buyers and collectors of all sorts of things.
The state would then take sealed bids for larger items, and arrange public auctions where a real live auctioneer would call out, “Who’ll give me $5.00?, …$4.00? $3.00?” …the bidding would start — and then usually end just as quickly — with many valuable items selling for pennies on the dollar.
Times have changed and now the State aims to get the most they can for (more…)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – On Monday, May 17, 2010, four students from Framingham High School delivered a painful 425 to 25 defeat to Boston Collegiate on WGBH TV’s “High School Quiz Show”.
FHS v. Boston Collegiate on WGBH's High School Quiz Show, May 17, 2010
The four FHS students; David Kruger, Indiana Jones, Benjamin Rosen and Steve Lessard had alternates Michelle Cunningham and Jason Harding waiting in the wings, ready if (more…)
FRAMIMGHAM, MA – From the first warm nights in spring, when the air temperature is above 60 degrees, strange sounds can be heard coming from the wet woodlands around Framingham. The sounds can last through most of the summer.
Some people think birds or strange insects are making the sounds, but it’s actually a tree dwelling frog; Hyla versicolor — more commonly known as the Gray Treefrog.
In the spring and summer, Grey Treefrogs can be found near swamps, ponds, or just about any other pool of water — in this case on the deck of a swimming pool in Framingham, MA, (video shot at night using Sony Handycam in NightShot mode).
The one and half to two inch mottled grey, black and green frogs live in wet woody areas and spend the cooler months in hollowed out trees, In the winter the frogs hybernate underground, beneath insulating layers of fallen debris and leaf litter.
In breeding season, (March to August), the frogs gather near the water’s edge and the mating calls begin, (and can last until ’til nearly midnight).
As the “versicolor” portion of their scientific name implies, the Gray Treefrog can change color from almost stark white to a dark mottled greyish green.
The skin on the back of the Gray Treefrog is bumpy, (again, part of their camouflage — the texture along with the blended color make then nearly invisible as they cling to the bark or moss of a tree or log). The frog’s underside is smooth with bright yellow skin on the inside of their hind legs. It’s fingers and toes have sticky pads which make them apt climbers.
While the sounds may be annoying, it may be of some comfort to realize that frogs are one of our best early warnings of environmental danger. Acting like a “canary in a coal mine“, many species of frogs around the world lose their lives because of man. Frogs in the wild suffer from air, water and soil pollution, man made changes in temperature and other ways we alter the environment.
A healthy frog population is a good indication the environment in the area they live is healthy too. So, don’t worry when you hear them at night — instead, worry that some day you might not.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Ever since Community Cablevision came to town in the 1970’s, one-by-one, most people took down the rabbit ears or roof-top antennae and ran coaxial cable into their homes instead.
Framingham Community Cablevision, logo, (1979).
Today there are several options available to Framingham residents in regard to how they obtain “tv signal”.
Choices range from using a digital converter box connected to those old rabbit ears or aerial antennae, by “cable”, by satellite — or a popular choice lately: foregoing traditional formal television programming and watching news, entertainment and other forms of video on an internet connected device.
Cable providers have long realized that improvements in speed and quality of online video transmission would make people less dependent on traditional television as a media source and today cable tv is usually bundled into some form of broadband cable access.
Framingham’s cable t.v., internet and residential phone needs are served primarily by three companies; Comcast, RCN and (more…)
Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig prior to exploding and sinking in the Gulf of Mexico.
LAST UPDATED: January 3, 2013
While an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might not have gotten much concern from some New England residents, in the coming months the effects of the explosion and subsequent oil spill at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform may have lasting effects across the country — and beyond.
An estimated 70% of all North American waterfowl species use the area and many North and South American songbird species rest or feed in the area on their annual migration routes across the Gulf.
Shrimp, crab and fish catches from the Louisiana fishing fleet have already been affected.
Early on the event was shaping up to be a major ecological disaster — it could end up causing severe long term ecological damage to the fisheries, nesting grounds and the eco-sensitive Gulf coast. Hotel and tour operators in surrounding areas are already experiencing cancellations from tourist who do not want to (more…)
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