Community Corner
5 Things You Need To Know Today: May 15
Featured in today's column: Bird photography, paving on Potter Road, Town Meeting member files paperwork to reconsider the education budget and the MBTA voted to increase rates beginning July 1.
1. Paving will resume on Potter Road today from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. An alternating one-lane traffic pattern will be used to facilitate traffic flow. Please expect some delays. Police, fire and school vehicles will have access at all times.
2. The main Framingham Library will host a free nature photography lecture and presentation tonight at 7.
Brooks Mathewson will present Spring Songbird Migration - A Storm of Angels. Mathewson's lecture will focus on the spring songbird migration when nearly 80 species of songbirds can be observed. He will discuss the migration and present his stunning photography.
Mathewson is a fine art photographer and ecologist holding a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Biology and a Master’s Degree in Forest Science from Harvard University. His photography has been published in magazines, scientific journals, textbooks, and field guides, and exhibited and sold at galleries, museums, Audubon Sanctuaries, and National Wildlife Refuges throughout New England.
3. Framingham Town Meeting members made their way through articles 19 to 24 Wednesday night.
Night 9 of Town Meeting is scheduled to begin tonight, May 13 at 7:30 in Nevins Hall inside the Memorial Building or when a quorum is reached. Town Meeting will begin discussion on Article 25 of a 40+ article warrant.
- Framingham Patch did not LIVE BLOG on Night 8. I took the night off and spent it with family.
- If you missed Night 7 of Town Meeting, you can read Framingham Patch's live blog by clicking here.
- If you missed Night 6 of Town Meeting, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 5, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 4, click here to read the LIVE BLOG.
- If you missed Night 3, read the LIVE BLOG here.
- If you missed Night 2, read the LIVE BLOG here.
- If you missed Night 1, read the LIVE BLOG here.
4. Framingham Town Clerk Valerie Mulvey said Town Meeting member Jim Pillsbury from Precinct 6 has filed a reconsideration motion with her office for the Education budget, article 19 of Framingham Town Meeting.
Town Meeting members approved the Framingham Public Schools and the Keefe Technical School budgets on Tuesday night, via a hand vote.
5. In Case You Missed It: The MBTA approved fare hikes on Wednesday. Monthly commuter rail passes will go up between $5-17, depending on your zone. The new fares will go into effect on July 1. The MBTA last increased fares in 2012. Click here for more details.
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