FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Framingham's McAuliffe Branch Library receives construction grant.<\/p>\n After years of being on the waiting list for construction dollars from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisssioners, the library was awarded a $1,654,493 provisional Library Construction Grant to build a new branch library in Saxonville.<\/p>\n It's another first for Framingham as we are the first to ever receive a state grant for a branch.<\/p>\n There are some conditions, including the town securing funding for the community's share of the $5,000,000 building project.<\/p>\n Proposed site for the new building is at the roadside corner of the Pinefield Shopping Center opposite the current McAuliffe building.<\/p>\n Donations and community support will be needed to make this happen. Look for announcements about fundraisers soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Saxonville \/ McAuliffe Branch Planned FRAMINGHAM, MA – Framingham’s McAuliffe Branch Library receives construction grant. After years of being on the waiting list for construction dollars from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisssioners, the library was awarded a $1,654,493 provisional Library Construction Grant to build a new branch library in Saxonville. It’s another first for Framingham… [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":[118],"tags":[214,358,359,326],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-grants","tag-library","tag-mcauliffe","tag-saxonville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}