New Franklin Register

Townspeople complain that we are paying too much in taxes.  Adding together the taxes on your property going to county, town, school district, and fire district, we pay at the second highest rate in the county. Landowners in the village or hamlet pay even more.

New Franklin Register #54, Spring 2025.

New Franklin Register #50, Fall 2023

New Franklin Register #52, Summer 2024.

Venture over the back of Leland Hull Road today and take the righthand fork. You won’t find much. But forty years ago, this wooded hillside was alive with Franklin’s fabled utopian community, The Farm.

The name ‘Open Doors’ was chosen intentionally. The Open Doors United Methodist Community is welcoming to anyone seeking engagement with the community, spiritual growth, and good conversation about timely topics.

New Franklin Register #51, Spring 2024

As a baby boomer, I was raised during what is now looked upon as the beginning of the end of the golden years of traditional Protestantism. In my small town of 2,000, there was a Methodist church, a Baptist Church, a Presbyterian Church, and an Episcopalian Church. There were less “traditional” churches as well, such

New Franklin Register #50, Fall 2023

THE BACKSTORY: A year and a half ago, the Town of Franklin received almost $198,000 under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Our share of the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds amounts to more than a tenth of our entire annual budget. Since then, our board has not made use of

New Franklin Register #49, Summer 2023