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  • Friends of Saxonville Annual Meeting set for Tues. April 12th

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Friends of Saxonville will hold their annual meeting on Tues., April 12th, at Stapleton Elementary School, Elm St. at 6:30 p.m.

    They will present updates on their initiatives, honor special volunteers, and elect officers. Every year they present a special feature. This year the Friends have arranged for a special Saxonville edition of the popular Framingham Trivia Cable Show with participation from the audience.

    Do you have a question about Saxonville’s history? If so, call Bill Dyan at 508-877-0289 and it may be covered on the show.

    Wish to nominate someone to the Board of Directors? Send your nomination to Friends of Saxonville, PO B ox 3236, Framingham, MA 01705.

    For additional information, call Charlene Frary, secretary, at 508-877-3556 or visit www.saxonville.org.

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  • McAuliffe Library Question and Answer Session Canceled

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Board of Library Trustees question and answer session on the new branch library project that was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 (today) in the Public Hearing Room of the Memorial Building has been canceled due to bad weather.

    The Trustees apologize for any inconvenience caused by this cancellation and all Town Meeting members will be contacted if the session is rescheduled before the March 15 Special Town Meeting.

    If you have any questions about the branch project, please feel free to contact Tom Gilchrist by phone or email. E-mail: tgilchrist@minlib.net Phone: (508) 879-3570 ext. 301

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  • Amazing Things Relocating to Saxonville

    Arts Center finds new home in Pinefield Shopping Center

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Amazing Things, the new art center in MetroWest, has announced that it will open a 90 seat venue next to Famous Pizza in Pinefield Shopping Center in Saxonville.

    Amazing Things hopes to open its new location in April. Larger events will be scheduled in the Framingham Civic League or in Nevins Hall in the Memorial Building, Downtown Framingham. Events organized by Amazing Things will be part of the START Partnership Spring into Arts! calendar.

    Visit www.amazingthings.org for details.

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  • Framingham Library Grant Awarded

    New Saxonville / McAuliffe Branch Planned

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Framingham’s McAuliffe Branch Library receives construction grant.

    After years of being on the waiting list for construction dollars from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisssioners, the library was awarded a $1,654,493 provisional Library Construction Grant to build a new branch library in Saxonville.

    It’s another first for Framingham as we are the first to ever receive a state grant for a branch.

    There are some conditions, including the town securing funding for the community’s share of the $5,000,000 building project.

    Proposed site for the new building is at the roadside corner of the Pinefield Shopping Center opposite the current McAuliffe building.

    Donations and community support will be needed to make this happen. Look for announcements about fundraisers soon.

  • With or Without Wheels

    Boston Marathon 1997 wheelchair division coming through Framingham, MA

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Temperatures above 50 degrees and wind from the east are not considered favorable conditions for running from Hopkinton to Boston, and it was already starting to show on the faces of some of the ten thousand plus runners as they paced their way through the Framingham stretch of the 101st running of the Boston Marathon.

    Runners left Hopkinton at 12 noon and the wheelchair division 15 minutes earlier. To participate, entrants had to be 18 years or older on race day, and have completed a sanctioned marathon with a qualifying time for their division during the previous year. With competetion like the Kenyans, Uta Pippig, Jean Driscoll, and other course favorites, most knew from the outset that they could not hope to win — and most only hoped to finish the 26.2 mile course …in any amount of time.

    Runners passing through Downtown Framingham in Boston Marathon, 1997First to cross the Framingham town line and pass the cheering crowds in downtown at a few minutes after noon, was the wheelchair division. Passing the Rt. 135 / Rt. 126, (Waverly St. / Concord St.), intersection, the difficulty of navigating rail-road crossings on the three wheeled racing chairs was obvious — and became painfully so for Jean Driscoll when she later lost control and flipped her chair in Bookline’s Cleveland Cirlce after her front wheel got hung up on a trolly track.

    At the time of the crash, Driscoll, who had won the woman’s wheelchair division for the past seven years, and held the course record in (more…)

  • Scouts Help Save Sudbury River

    Scouts Help Save Sudbury River

    PHOTO - Framingham Scouts spray paint a stencil design near storm drains warning people not to dump into Sudbury River, 1996

    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.

    PHOTO - Framingham Scouts Stencil Storm Drains near Sudbury River, Warn People not to Dump Toxic Waste.
    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.

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  • Army Corp of Engineers Complete Saxonville Local Protection Project along Sudbury River

    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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    Source: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers  Flood Risk Management web page.