Author name: Brian Brock

This is the third in a series of articles on the extraction of our natural gas. The first discussed the formation of this gas. The second described the siting and drilling of your gas well. After the vertical length of the hole has been drilled down to the black shale and across the horizontal length […]

Property taxes are a source of funds for all our local institutions: Village, Library, Town, Board of Education, Fire Districts, and County. It is the largest source of funds for Village, Library, and Town, and would be for others if not for State and Federal payments. It is a tax on real property (or realty),

The Beehive has changed ownership but stays local. The new owners are siblings Sue Gray, Carol Ganim, and Bill Zipp. The sisters have lived in the Village for five years and their brother is newly arrived. The solstice on Friday the 20th of June ushered in both summer and dinners at the Beehive. Dining is

Franklin has had one or more Justices of the Peace since its earliest days, although since a State statute was passed in 1962, he is referred to simply as Justice. This position began in England during the Middle Ages when a proclamation of Richard I in 1195 appointed knights to keep the peace locally.  In

This is the first in a series about our local government. Later installments will cover the Justice of the Peace, Assessor, the Fire Departments, the Board of Education, and the Village Board.

Franklin enjoyed almost a century of its own weekly newspaper. Beginning in 1855, George W. Reynolds published the Visitor and continued for over eight years, except for a two year hiatus while owner and editor of the Binghamton Standard. For the first year or so, it was the Weekly Visitor before being renamed the Franklin