Issue # 4 – Vol. II, No. 1 Spring 2008 – 8 pages (download full issue, PDF 1MB) Winter Grazing James Hayes, page 1 The Hundred Mile Diet Andy Bailey Goodell, page 1 … Don’t Read This! Jim Mullen, page 1 Franklin Justice – Brian Brock, page 1 My Thoughts on Peak Oil K. Frey […]
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.
Issue # 3 – Vol. I, No. 3 Fall, 2007 – 8 pages (download full issue, PDF 1MB) Your Franklin Government Brian Brock, page 1 Community Greenhouses Mark Davies, page 1 Net Energy Eugene Marner, page 1 First Thanksgiving Family Feud Jim Mullen, page 2 Wind Turbines Bob Miller, page 3 … Peak Oil Preparedness […]
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 […]
Issue # 2 – Vol. I, No. 2 Summer, 2007 4 pages (download full issue, PDF 450KB) Relocalization Eugene Marner, page 1 Olde Franklin Day … May Miller, page 1 The Upside of Global Climate Change! Jim Mullen, page 1 A Century of Franklin Newspapers Brian Brock, page 2 The Past is the Future Robert […]
First issue of the New Franklin Register, Franklin NY – Spring 2007