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  • Season’s First Snow Falls on Framingham

    Framingham, MA - first snow of the year, October 27,2011
    Employee's working evening shifts in Framingham area retail stores find their cars covered with wet snow from the year's first snowfall, Oct. 27, 2011.

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – After raining all day, when temperatures dropped after sunset the rain first turned to sleet, then to snow, accumulating on unpaved surfaces across the town.

    By 9:00pm a light coating of wet snow covered lawns, cars, shrubbery, rooftops and powerlines.

    With weather reports predicting overnight temperatures would fall below freezing, the Town of Framingham sent out highway department vehicles to salt and sand the town’s roads.

    Having to treat roads in October is doubly worrisome as a recent $1.5 million dollar budget calculation error has the Town’s Chief Financial Officer asking Town Meeting to approve removing $287k from this year’s snow and ice removal budget.

    Snow on shrubbery, an unusual sight for October in Framingham.
    Snow on shrubbery, an unusual sight for October in Framingham.

    Meteorologists are watching a low pressure air mass and precipitation which are moving up the United States’ east coast and could bring more snow to Framingham in the next few days if the weather arrives during the overnight when temperatures are low.

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    Season’s First Snow Falls on Framingham

  • ‘Impact Framingham’ Grant Funds Availability

    Impact Framingham
    ''Impact Framingham'' group plans to use proceeds of sale of Civic League building to fund worthwhile community projects.

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Impact Framingham, a new foundation dedicated to benefitting the town and the people of Framingham, is announcing the availability of grant funds for the 2012 year.

    Impact Framingham was formed from the funds received from the sale of 214 Concord Street, formerly known as the Framingham Civic League. The League owned the building for nearly 100 years before they sold it to a religious organization in 2010.

    The proceeds from the sale of the building have been set aside as a charitable fund that will be distributed as grants within the community.

    The organization is now known as Impact Framingham, with the goal of “investing in our community.” Betsy Fishman, President of Impact Framingham, commented on the new name of the organization. With “IF” being the acronym for Impact Framingham, “We wanted to pose the question, ‘What if?’ to the people of (more…)

    ‘Impact Framingham’ Grant Funds Availability

  • Board of Health Not Chicken to Issue Permit

    After arguing his own case before the Framingham Board of Health, Peter Jacobson proudly displays the permit he was granted to keep six chickens at his Maple Street home. (October 25, 2011)
    After arguing his own case before the Framingham Board of Health, Peter Jacobson proudly displays the permit he was granted to keep six chickens at his Maple Street home. (October 25, 2011)

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Some might think a Board of Health meeting would not draw much of a crowd, but the Tuesday October 25th, 2011 meeting of the Framingham Board of Health overflowed into the hallway outside the 2nd Floor Conference Room of Town Hall, (the Memorial Building).

    Among other issues before the board, an application for a permit to keep chickens was on the agenda.

    After a somewhat contentious debate, Peter Jacobson, a Framingham High School Junior was issued a permit keep six chickens at his Maple Street home.

    While that would not be any news at all in many parts of the United States, it was a landmark decision of sorts — and an example of how the average citizen in Framingham — regardless of age, can be heard and have government address their needs and desires.

    In Framingham, the BOH must issue a permit for anyone to keep even one chicken.  Jacobson had submitted an application for a permit to keep six, and included a drawing of coop he plans to build himself.

    Although he was accompanied by (more…)

    Board of Health Not Chicken to Issue Permit

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