{"id":8713,"date":"2006-10-01T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:43:10","slug":"framingham-to-celebrate-town-meeting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2006\/10\/01\/politics\/framingham-to-celebrate-town-meeting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Framingham to Celebrate Town Meeting Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA - <\/strong>Framingham will celebrate Town Meeting Day on Sunday, October 22nd through the efforts of Town Moderator Joel Winett, who spearheaded the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts General Law Chapter 6: Section 15PP. Town Meeting Day states:<\/p>\n<p><em>\"The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting a Town Meeting Day in commemoration of the holding of the first town meeting, recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Framingham Town Meeting Members, elected officials, and all town residents are invited to an event in appreciation of Town Meeting Members' public service.<\/p>\n<p>Town Meeting Day will be observed on Sunday, October 22, 2006 in the Costin room of the main library at 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the Library Trustees, who will provide some light refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Wallace, of the Framingham Historical Society and Museum will present a brief talk on the history of Framingham and Town Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Town Meeting Members can socialize with other Town Meeting Members, elected officials, and residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Framingham will celebrate Town Meeting Day on Sunday, October 22nd through the efforts of Town Moderator Joel Winett, who spearheaded the idea. Massachusetts General Law Chapter 6: Section 15PP. Town Meeting Day states: &#8220;The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting a Town Meeting Day in commemoration of the holding of the first town&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2006\/10\/01\/politics\/framingham-to-celebrate-town-meeting-day\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4087,4088,789,426],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-framingham-government","tag-fred-wallace","tag-joel-winett","tag-town-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}