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FRAMINGHAM, MA – A free workshop with helpful tips for professional women who are job hunting will be held this Tuesday, February 24th from 10 a.m. to noon at Tatnuck Booksellers & Café, 18 Lyman St., Westborough. The workshop is presented by the Leading Women MASS organization. Register online at leadingwomen.biz.
In their continuing effort to advance women in their careers and give back to the community, Leading Women MASS has (more…)
FRAMINGHAM, MA — In a successor to the 50 States Quarters Program, the U.S. Mint, in a nationwide program, has asked Governor Patrick to select one preferred and three alternate Massachusetts national sites to be featured on the reverse of a quarter. Beginning in 2010, the Mint will release five new quarter designs annually based on the order in which the selected sites gained federal designation.
Governor Deval Patrick is calling on the people of Massachusetts to help with this decision. “Our Commonwealth has many great parks and historically significant sites,” said Governor Patrick. “It will be fun to let everybody help choose the one to submit.”
What Sites are Included? The sites for Massachusetts can include federally-recognized national parks or other national sites in the Commonwealth, including those appearing on the National Register of Historic Places, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Forests.
Governor Patrick has had a website created with additional information and where you can vote. While there is a list on the webpage with the more likely and well-known sites, there is a link to a list of historic places that includes several in Framingham. So, you could show your hometown support by voting for a Framingham site.
How to Vote: Go to the website via the link below and select one of the sites, or call the number below if you want to nominate a Framingham site because they don’t have buttons to check off.
The voting is now open. Please note that you can only submit one site at a time, but you can vote as often as you would like until 5:00 p.m. February 26, 2009. If your preferred site does not appear on the list on the website, you can still vote for it by calling 1-800-227-MASS [6277]. For more info, visit: mass.gov/governor/quarter
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FRAMINGHAM, MA – After two years under the worthy, yet temporary guidance of Dr. Gene Thayer, the Framingham schools will again have a superintendent. Watertown Superintendent Dr. Steven Hiersche will take over from Thayer on July 1st, 2009.
Framingham has a new fire chief, Gary Daugherty, who took over from Ollie Gadson, who retired last year. Daugherty is the former Hopkinton Fire Chief.
Monsignor Francis Strahan, of St. Bridget’s Church, celebrated his 50th year of service to the Catholic Church, 25 of which were at St. Bridget’s.
Dr. Arthur Caplan, whose father ran the Pinefield Pharmacy in Saxonville, was dubbed one of “The 10 Most Influential People in Science,” by Discover Magazine. Dr. Caplan has been doing some ground-breaking work in bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Framingham Public Library’s “Framingham Reads Together” program with guest speaker Greg Mortenson attracted a record crowd of an estimated 1900 people to Nevins Hall. This key event for the first-ever townwide reading initiative was an outstanding success.
And another success was accorded to John Harvard’s Brew House, Shoppers World, who took home two medals in the Beverage Tasting Institute’s World Beer Championship, a gold for its “Mabay Stout” and a bronze for its “Atomic Espresso Stout.” Head brewer Maria Poulinas developed the recipes for the two medal winners.
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