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Three kinds of email. Nothing else.
The two scheduled sends have names, so a reader can say which one they mean: "The week in Franklin" on Monday and "The weekend" on Thursday.
The week in Franklin.
Every public meeting on the city's calendar, with the agenda where the city has posted one, and what moved on the development map. Then the week's forecast, its shows and its events.
The weekend.
Five picks for Friday to Sunday from the events and live music trackers, each with a sentence on why, and the rest of the weekend's calendar below them.
When they are finished.
Budget walkthroughs, explainers and field guides, each in an email of its own on the day it is published, not on a schedule.
Kevin Craig, editor and founder. Lives in Franklin and reads every reply. Write to the editor →
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Read the back catalogue.
Pumpkinfest's first two-day run drew 172,000 to Main Street
The Heritage Foundation added a Sunday to thin out a crowd that hit 135,000 in a single day last year. It got 172,000 over two days instead, the most any of its festivals has ever drawn, and a street that was still less crowded by the hour.
What opened and closed in Franklin in 2026
Every restaurant, bar, coffee shop and store that opened, closed or was announced at a Franklin address this year, month by month, with the date and where we read it.
Franklin's 2027 city election
The mayor and four at-large seats, every deadline from petitions to election day, how the four aldermen voted on the board's 44 split votes, and every race since 2011.
What Franklin approved from July to September 2026
Every rezoning, plan, plat, annexation and surety the Planning Commission and the board voted on from July to September: plans with 512 homes, 98 house lots platted, and the 15 votes that drew a no, by name.
Day trips from Franklin
Eight Saturdays from the Public Square and back, four of four hours and four of eight, each timed against its stops' Saturday hours and the sunset.
A checklist for moving to Franklin
Twelve steps in the order they fall due: what to check before signing, what to start the week you move, and the 30-day clock on a license, plates and a voter registration.
Photo: Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Tennessee state parks by drive time from Franklin
All 69 parks on the state's list, timed from the Public Square: the seven inside an hour, the trails, water and beds at each, and the ones with the most room by the state's own counts.
Is Franklin a good place to live?
What residents say in the city's own survey, then the figures for cost, schools, crime, health, jobs, commuting, weather and the river, each beside the state's, and which households carry the costs.
Photo: Brandon Jean on Unsplash