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  • You Move Massachusetts MassDOT Forum

    FRAMINGHAM, MA — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is conducting an on-going program of community forums related to the You Move Massachusetts Civic Engagement Initiative.

    There will be a forum in Framingham on Tuesday January 26th: Framingham Town Hall (Blumer Room) from 5:30pm to 6:45pm.

    Agenda:

    I) MassDOT Overview
    II) Commuter Rail Update – Acting MBTA General Manager William Mitchell
    III) CSX – MassDOT Rail Agreement – Jamey Tesler, MassDOT
    IV) Questions & Feedback

    If you have questions, please contact:

    John Romano
    Municipal Affairs Liaison
    Massachusetts Department of Transportation
    Direct: 617.248.2822 | Mobile 617.438.4301

    This meeting should be of interest to rail commuters as well as those hoping for improvements to the downtown grade crossing.

  • School Move?

    The Framingham School Committee is reviewing a plan for organizing the elementary schools.

    Parents are paying attention and discussing the plan online on Facebook and on an email listserve, frambors as well as attending the open public forums.

    I hope that the school committee and the media get input from the communities such as Southborough, that have implemented a similar plan.

    Somehow having children changing schools every three years doesn’t seem like a way to go. 

    One side issue is that it may result in a reduction in parental and student loyalty.  It’s hard enough to engage parents in the PTO and school activities and the less time they have to become attached to a school, the less involved they may be.

  • TALK – Eat Local – Buy Local With Community Supported Agriculture

    FRAMINGHAM, MA — Tom Hanson of Hanson’s Farm, 20 Nixon Rd., Framingham will present a talk on community supported agriculture at Annie’s Book Stop in the Nobscot Plaza, 774 Water St., Framingham on Wednesday, Jan 13,at 7.00 p.m.

    Community Supported Agriculture is in such demand all across New England that many CSAs have people on waiting lists one or two years long. By paying a fee up front, members are entitled to a share in the season’s crop and a small farm benefits by spreading the cash flow out across the season. Join us at this meeting, sponsored by the Nobscot Neighbors Association, and learn all about this wildly popular new way of bringing home the groceries.

    The CSA model appeals to a wide range of people: foodies who will settle for nothing less than the freshest fruits and vegetables that have ripened naturally. It appeals to environmentalists who want to buy from local sources, rather than support interstate transport from mega-farms on the West Coast or in South America. And it appeals to those who want to support local farms as a way to preserve the rural character of their community. Stearns Farm on Edmands Road has operated as a CSA since 1990.

    For over a hundred years the Hanson family has worked their Nixon Road farm, with about 52 acres in fruits and vegetables and another 100 in hay and field corn. As far back as any of us can remember, Tom, Martha and son, Matt Hanson have sold their produce and flowers at the roadside farmstand and at farmer’s markets throughout this part of the state. Last year they launched a CSA and membership sold out in the first season. Tom says the CSA program is an ideal way to embrace the needs of modern families while honoring the farm’s agricultural history.

    The Nixon Road farm is also home to a pick-your-own program and an annual halloween event that has come to be known as Tom and Matt’s Excellent Adventure.

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