Framingham News

Framingham DPW Brush Collection in October & December 2024

Source: Framingham, MA - News Flash 13 Oct 2024 7:00 pm

November Household Hazardous Waste Day

Source: Framingham, MA - News Flash 8 Oct 2024 10:59 pm

City Advertising For 2 Seats on the Framingham Bicycle, Pedestrian & Trails Committee

Source: Framingham, MA - News Flash 5 Oct 2024 7:03 pm

Deadline to Apply is Sunday, October 20 at 11:59 p.m.

City Advertising For Volunteer for Framingham Sustainability Committee

Source: Framingham, MA - News Flash 5 Oct 2024 6:46 pm

Deadline is October 14, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

Update on General Chemical Site in Framingham

Source: Framingham, MA - News Flash 5 Oct 2024 2:35 pm

Huge news in the plastic recyling world

Source: Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog 25 Sep 2024 3:49 pm

California sues Exxon over plastics pollution. A first of it's kind lawsuit accuses Exxon of lying and deceiving Americans for decades over plastic recycling. If California prevails, billions could be had by the States in fines and penalties, but more impo

The discarding of books at FPS

Source: Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog 8 Aug 2024 5:47 pm

  As many of our readers know, I was a volunteer at Dunning for the compost pilot program for most of the last school year. My job was to ensure that foreign items that are not compostable were not thrown in the compost bin. Items like plastic ware, labe

And you wonder why cops and our ME's office, have such a bad reputation

Source: Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog 27 Jun 2024 8:15 pm

  If you have followed the case in Canton of the young women, Sandra Birchmore, who was groomed by three Stoughton cops from the age of 15 and found dead in her apartment in 2021, more disturbing revelations are reported by Boston globe reporter Laura Cr

FDA Recalls Many Brands of Ice Cream For Possible Listeria

Source: framingham.com 27 Jun 2024 3:54 am

FRAMINGHAM, MA -- Local shoppers (and retailers) should note that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a list of dozens of popular ice cream products recalled for possible Listeria health risks. Ice cream varieties, novelties, sizes and f

2 X cops sentenced in OT fraud case

Source: Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog 24 Jun 2024 8:44 pm

Some of you may remember the US attorney indicted a bunch of cops who once again fudged time cards to get OT at an evidence warehouse in Boston. It was quite the racket and shows how left with no oversight, even high ranking senior cops will take advantage

Warning disturbing video: A child beaten, by other children, on a Framingham School bus

Source: Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog 3 Jun 2024 2:22 pm

 This event took places 2 months ago according to the reporter from Channel 10. Someone on that bus recorded the beating and just last week sent the video to the press. It appears a few (school authorities) knew about this when it happened but never made

From Pond to Pro: Who are the Framingham Pics?

Source: Framingham History Center 14 May 2024 8:38 pm

Written by Researcher and FHC Volunteer Mark Galluzzo The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a meteoric rise in the popularity of hockey across New England, and Framingham was not immune to the craze. This was the era of the “Big Bad Bruins.” Bruins win