FRAMINGHAM, MA – After an unusually warm winter, with little snow, people were a little amused when, during the last days of March, meteorologists started predicting a blizzard would hit the area.
Just the day before this photo was taken people were seen walking around downtown in t-shirts and shorts, but during the storm it was necessary for plows to pile 8-10 feet of snow in the rotary in Memorial Square to keep roads clear and traffic moving. (photo by Randy Harris)
It wasn’t Yankee humor, but the weather forecasters did have the last laugh when rain, then sleet, then snow, snow, and more snow buried the town in 24″ of the heavy wet stuff during the record setting single-day storm.
Warm temperatures returned almost immediately after the storm causing such fast melting snow and runoff that the ground vibrated as water pounded over the falls on Winter St. (photo by Randy Harris)
As luck had it, town elections, originally scheduled for April 2nd had already been moved up to April 8th.. this was done because Framingham Public Schools were on vacation for the week, which also lessened the impact of the storm— school kids were home to enjoy the snow without adding snow days to the end of the school year.
Jim Richards, Custodian at the McCarthy School, Ice fishing on Learned Pond, Framingham, MA, (January 19, 1997)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – With the temperature below freezing for the past week, many people look for warm, comfortable, indoor activities to pass the time on a New England Sunday afternoon, but Jim Richards would rather do something he’s done for the past 40 or so winters… go fishing!
Richards, a custodian at the McCarthy School, packs his rig– a handmade wooden box with ski like runners, and heads out on the frozen surface of Learned Pond for a day of ice-fishing.
To pass the time Jim listens to a battery operated police/fire scanner, and talks with friends who stop by to see if the fish are biting.
Using a hand auger, Richards set five traps in the 5-6″ thick ice, (he noted that five was the the legal limit, and that you must also have a valid fishing license to ice-fish).
Many fisherman use these wooden pop-up traps so they may fish several spots at once. A baited line is attached to a trap which has a spring loaded flag. The flag pops up to show a fish has made a strike at the bait and may be hooked.
When the ice gets much thicker he uses a gas powered auger.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – At Larry Bucaria’s house, kids are always encouraged to play at the kitchen table… not with their food, but with the games Larry invents.
Bucaria, who takes his game inventing seriously has set up shop, (under the name Kitchen Table Games Inc.), in Building 4 of the former Dennison complex.
The company’s first game, Big Bucks Baseball™, (U.S. Patent #5,092,596), was inspired in part by Larry’s grandson Matt who Larry proudly proclaims is a baseball nut.
The game can be played three ways; from a simple pitch, hit, and run type baseball game, to Big Bucks mode, using MONOPOLY™ like rules, and business strategy that comes as close to Major League Baseball team ownership as most of us will ever come. In Big Bucks mode you try to accquire cash to upgrade your roster, to purchase concessions for everything from food and drinks to satellite t.v. and radio broadcast rights, and must always be ready to pay franchise fees and game and player fines, (and receive royalties and bonuses).
Larry Bucaria, Kitchen Table Games, Framingham ,MA
Kitchen Table Games is a family operation, and since Larry has one son, four daughters, and even more grandchildren, he has plenty of help. Considering men, woman, boys and girls enjoy playing baseball, Big Bucks Baseball™ contains both male and female playing pieces and uses non-gender-specific language in it’s instructions. The game is rated for ages 8 and up, but that doesn’t necesarily mean age determines who wins. Describing the action from a game where Larry, (age 67), was playing against 11 year old grandson Matt, Larry wondered if Matt knew what he was doing. Matt was pitching and had just walked two valuable players. Then Matt pulled out a “DOUBLE PLAY” card he had been holding, ending the inning a little faster than Larry expected!
Kitchen Table Games is Bucaria’s first attempt at running his own business, (he just retired from a 35 year job at Raytheon), but based on what he’s already accomplished, you’re sure to be hearing more about this Framingham company.
To order, or for more info on Big Bucks Baseball ™ or Kitchen Table Games visit their web site at http://www.ktg.com, or send email to: ktg@tiac.net, or call (508)626-0303 or TOLL FREE 1-800-470-2312.
FRAMINGHAM, MA – At Larry Bucaria’s house, kids are always encouraged to play at the kitchen table… not with their food, but with the games Larry invents.
Bucaria, who takes his game inventing seriously has set up shop, (under the name Kitchen Table Games Inc.), in Building 4 of the former Dennison complex.
The company’s first game, Big Bucks Baseball ™, (U.S. Patent #5,092,596), was inspired in part by Larry’s grandson Matt who Larry proudly proclaims is a baseball nut.
The game can be played three ways; from a simple pitch, hit, and run type baseball game, to Big Bucks mode, using MONOPOLY ™ like rules, and business strategy that (more…)
FRAMINGHAM, MA – Warnings are being stenciled above storm drains which empty into the Sudbury River in Framingham in hopes that people will realize that the drains lead directly into the river and that anything including motor-oil and other chemical products will end up in the river, along with the rain water run-off which the drains are intended to carry.
Many people confuse storm drains with sewers, and think that liquids they (illegally) dump in them goes to waste treatment facilities.
Liquid chemical waste should never be poured down household drains, and do even more damage when poured in storm-drains which run directly into ground water, rivers, and reservoirs.
Eric Weisman and Thomas Walsh help out with a town project, volunteering to paint warnings at storm-drains on the sidewalks around town. Weisman and Walsh, volunteered for the activity through Scout Troop 21, (Saxonville), which they are both members of.
FRAMINGHAM, MA — The US Army Corps of Engineers has completed the The Saxonville Local Protection Project along the Sudbury River from the falls in Saxonville to the Danforth Street bridge.
According to the Crops of Engineers, the project will protect about 23 acres of property along the left bank of the Sudbury River which includes the Saxonville Mill complex along with other commercial and residential properties.
Construction began in March 1977 and was completed in September 1979 at a cost of $4.75 million.
US Army Corps of Engineers civil works Flood Risk Management / Local Protection Project located along the Sudbury River in the Saxonville village of Framingham, MA.
The project which runs approximately 3,800 feet along the river consists of:
2,500 feet of earth-filled dikes with stone slope protection
1,340 feet of concrete floodwalls
a vehicular floodgate at Concord Street
a pumping station
Construction included straightening a 1,000-foot section of the Sudbury River upstream of the Danforth Street Bridge.
The project is to be operated and maintained by the town of Framingham.
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