In Other News

The Franklin Historical Museum is Open on Thursday Evening for the Sons & Daughters of Italy Centennial Exhibit!

This special exhibit is on display through  May 9 during regular hours (Sat. 10-1 and Sun 1-4), with special additional hours from 5-7 on Thursday, starting tonight. Don't miss this chance to see a century of local Italian-American history. Free, donations welcome, 80 West Central St.

Postal Pot Holes

We have heard grousing from a couple of readers afraid to subject their cars to the rigors of two deep, all-but-unavoidable potholes at the Franklin Post Office drive up location on Dean Ave. Tis the season...

Dean Middle East Culture Event Draws 30 to Museum Wednesday Afternoon

Dean College honors students shared a range of cultural experiences with families and individuals at the Franklin Historical Museum. In the foreground, a student is explaining Tatreez. Tatreez is traditional form of embroidery that originated when Palestine was a region within the Ottoman Empire, populated by a variety of religious groups who lived in a relatively peaceful, integrated society, notably Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Sephardic (Ladino-speaking) and Mizrahi (Arabic-speaking) Jews. The people who developed this art form, therefore, came from diverse religious backgrounds in a pre-national age.  Tatreez gained new significances through time—first as a tourist souvenir when Western tourism to the “Holy Land” expanded in the decades around 1900 -- and later for its regional resonance.

Hotter Under the Golden Dome

John Deaton, Republican candidate for United States Senate and trial attorney,  has filed an amicus brief before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in State Auditor Diana DiZoglio v. Speaker Ronald Mariano, et al., urging the Commonwealth’s highest court to appoint independent counsel for State Auditor DiZoglio and to enforce the clear will of the Massachusetts voters who demanded a legislative audit.  The filing comes alongside a separate taxpayer lawsuit — Deaton and 27 Massachusetts Taxpayers v. Clerk of the House, currently pending before a Single Justice of the SJC — in which Deaton and twenty-seven fellow Massachusetts taxpayers are fighting to compel compliance with the legislative audit law passed by voters in 2024.