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  • Storm Cancellations & Notices – Feb. 1 & 2, 2011

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Due to storm conditions the Selectman’s Meeting and School Committee meeting scheduled for tonight, (2/1/2011), have been canceled.

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    The Main Library Book Club meeting that was scheduled for this evening (2/1/11) has been cancelled and re-scheduled for Thursday, February 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Costin room. The book being discussed is “Cutting For Stone.”

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    (Library) The presentation by James Coleman, President and CEO of the American Textile Museum, scheduled for Wednesday evening, February 2nd has been canceled and re-scheduled for next Tuesday evening, February 8th at 7 p.m. in the Costin room.

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    Feb 2nd Immunization Clinic POSTPONED and is Rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 8th at Keefe Tech HS from 3 pm to 7 pm.  We still have more flu season to get through. Flu has not yet peaked in Massachusetts. There is still time to get your flu vaccine. The Framingham Board of Health and Medical Reserve Corps volunteers are holding a FREE PUBLIC IMMUNIZATION CLINIC on Tuesday February 8th, 2011 at Keefe Vocational Technical High School, 750 Winter Street Framingham, from 3-7 pm. This clinic is open to ALL residents of Massachusetts ages 6 months and up. This clinic will offer this year’s influenza vaccine, the pneumonia vaccine, and the Tetanus/Pertussis vaccine (tetanus and whooping cough) while supplies last. For More Information please contact: Laurie Courtney, Framingham Public Health Nurse,  508-532-5476 or lac@framinghamma.gov

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    Due to severe weather conditions forecast for today, Tuesday February 1, 2011, through Wednesday February 2, 2011, the Town of Framingham will waive interest charges up to $15.00 on the 2011 third quarter real estate tax bills, provided payment is received by the close of business, which is 7:00 pm, on Thursday February 3, 2011

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    The Framingham Finance Committee Meeting and the School Committee Meeting scheduled for this evening (Wednesday, February 2,2011) have been cancelled.
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    We will update this page with additional notices as they become available.

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  • Framingham Public School Canceled Jan 13, 2011

    Framingham Public School Canceled Jan 13, 2011

    Framingham, Public Schools will be closed Thursday Jan 13, 2011 due to snow clean up
    No School Thursday!

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Framingham Public Schools will remain closed on Thursday, January 13, 2011.

    School administration offices will be open.

    Since Friday, (1/14),  was already scheduled as a professional development day for elementary, middle and high school, and Monday, (1/17),  school is closed for Martin Luther King Day, Framingham schools are effectively closed for the next 5 days.

    Barring any unforeseen circumstances, school will resume on Tuesday, January 18th.

    (High school students will be returning to exams 1/18 through 1/21).

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  • April Fool’s Blizzard of ’97

    April Fool’s Blizzard of ’97

    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.

    [PHOTO] April Fools Blizzard, 1997, Framingham MA
    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.

    [PHOTO] Winter St. Dam, April Fools Blizzard, 1997, Framingham, MA
    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.

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