New Franklin Register

The Early Years Booze flowed freely for Franklin’s first century. With primitive roads, one of the few cash crops for export was alcohol fermented from farmers’ grain. Barrels were shipped down the Susquehanna River to Philadelphia. Closer to home, inns and taverns along the Catskill/Susquehanna Turnpike served much whiskey and beer. East Franklin (now Treadwell) […]

This year, the Cornell Cooperative’s annual spring tour of alternative energy looked mostly in Franklin. The Love and Hope Cat Sanctuary on Stewart Road draws heat directly from the earth. Two wings of the 9,000 sq. ft. Sanctuary are each supplied by separate fields of buried tubing 70 X 80 feet. Inside two heat exchangers

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

Issue # 7 – Vol. III, No. 1 Spring 2009 – 8 pages (download full issue, PDF 2.8MB) Your Gas Well: Part One Brian Brock, page 1 South Kortright Gets It Right! Eugene Marner, page 1 Food Routes Kate Ryan, page 1 Vegetable Garden Hints Mariane Kiraly & Janet Aldrich, page 1 Franklin Stage Renovates

Issue # 6 – Vol. II, No. 3 Fall 2008 – 8 pages (download full issue, PDF 2.7MB) The Northfield Tunnel Brian Brock, page 1 Carsharing in Upstate NY Andy Goodell, page 1 Franklin Railroad Museum John Taibi, page 1 Snapshots of Joy Anne Ohman, page 1 Franklin Village Park Kim Hyzer, page 2 Peak

Issue # 5 – Vol. II, No. 2 Summer 2008 – 8 pages (download full issue, PDF 450KB) A Rural Economy Utopia Dawn Rivers Baker, page 1 It’s up to Us to Lead the Way Eugene Marner, page 1 Peak Oil: A … Student’s View Ryan T. Parker, page 1 Your Property Taxes at Work

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

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