Hawkwatch
The town of Franklin is blessed in many ways but over the past three years, it has been discovered that we are home to a truly remarkable winter resident – […]
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Setback for Local Green Energy
By Tom Martone Members of the Delaware County Electric Cooperative (DCEC) interested in local green energy were in for a bit of a surprise when the cooperative announced in its […]
Son of Constitution
After repeated requests by the Franklin Town Board, Leatherstocking came to the May meeting to brief them on a possible natural gas distribution line to run from the proposed Constitution […]
Peak Oil: The Repercussions
Over the past seven years, The New Franklin Register has offered articles that attempted to help our readers to understand the relationship between energy supplies and the economy. In our […]
County Takes Franklin Land
The federal government requires that Delaware County replace its emergency communication system, having sold the frequencies on which it operates. The existing system was built in the 1970s and replacement […]
What’s Up on Franklin Heights?
By Betsy Babcock What’s going on up the hill? Rest assured it’s not condos or a wild game park (those were actual rumors floating about). If you look up the […]
New Librarian Settles In
Omaha native Carrie Fishner, Franklin’s first new librarian in thirty years, took the long way here. After graduating from Northwest Missouri State, she got a job as a residence director […]
The Mayor’s Corner
By Tom Briggs Last February, I was approached by my neighbor and Village Trustee, Paul DeAndrea to see if I would consider running for Mayor of Franklin. John Campbell had […]
Double Trouble
Just one #&$!! pipeline after another… The market for natural gas in the northeastern U.S. is out of balance. There is too much supply in northern Pennsylvania and too much […]
New Franklin Register #23
The New Franklin Register Issue #23, Summer 2014