Articles from The New Franklin Register
This year, the option of phone, video, and internet via fiber-optic cable is coming to many in Franklin as an alternative to the existing service via copper-wire cable. Long-time provider, Frontier Communications Corporation, has been the bane of local businesses and homeowners with its slow data transmission rates and poor service. All last year, the […]
Music Notes by John O’Connor Spectacular Lineup at the Franklin Farmers Market With the introduction of grant money to support live music at the Franklin Farmers’ Market comes the opportunity to diversify the programming. I have been singing from the steps of the Franklin Stage Company for several years now, sometimes accompanied by the spoon […]
“Is everyone moving to Franklin?” a friend from Connecticut asked me recently. She’d been shopping in Andes and had heard the rumor there. Well, it may not be everyone, but Sean Scherer’s Kabinett & Kammer, “a contemporary curiosity shop of antiques, natural wonders and art,” will be joining fashion designer Gary Graham at 422 Main […]
Download a PDF copy of the New Franklin Register Issue #37 (7.3 MB) by clicking on the image. See the index of this issue, and links to all previous issues, on the index page. Issue #37, Vol. XIII No. 1, Summer 2019
By Jessica Farrell Thirteen years ago, a neighbor and I met with a local reporter to talk about the pervasive blight on Sidney Center’s Main Street. At that time, several dilapidated buildings in our tiny “downtown” had been spray-painted with racial slurs and swastikas. They remained that way for weeks. Years of absentee landlords had […]
Download a PDF copy of the New Franklin Register Issue #36 (11 MB) by clicking on the image. See the index of this issue, and links to all previous issues, on the index page. Issue #36, Vol. XII No. 3, Fall 2018
The tentative 2019 budget for the Town of Franklin spends $1.76 million. To partially finance this, the town board plans to raise $1.19 million in property taxes from landowners, an increase of $ 0.03 million (2.4%) over the 2018 budget. This levy is just under the state-imposed soft cap and similar to the increase in […]
By Michael Sellitti The Sidney Center Improvement Group (SCIG) is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization formed over ten years ago with one basic idea – getting people together to clean up Sidney Center. We’ve come a long way since then. As volunteers working together, our mission is to improve the quality of life for those […]
By Sarah Outterson-Murphy Many people worry about the cost of their own healthcare, but local business owners also worry about their employees. “I can’t afford to offer healthcare to my coworkers,” said Faiga Brussel, owner of Good Cheap Food in Delhi. “Years ago, I tried, and quickly ran into a brick wall of financial disaster […]
By Lynne Kemen Like many of us, the famous photographer and American Progressive Lewis Hine visited Franklin and fell in love with the beauty of the landscape. Timothy J. Duerden has written his biography. Duerden is the director of the Delaware Historical Association in Delhi, NY, and is an adjunct lecturer in history at the […]