Brendan Fitzpatrick
04 September 2025
Episode

The Frame: September 4, 2025

This week on The Frame: MetroWest Medical Center announces a new maternity ward plan, details on the upcoming preliminary School Committee election in District 2, and a look at harm reduction work being done locally to combat the opioid epidemic.

This week on The Frame: MetroWest Medical Center announces a new maternity ward plan, details on the upcoming preliminary School Committee election in District 2, and a look at harm reduction work being done locally to combat the opioid epidemic.

All of that on The Frame: Framingham News in Focus.

For more local news, visit theframe.news.

Intro: 0:00

Framingham Union Hospital Maternity Ward: 0:42

Syringe Service Programs: 3:08

City Councilor Takes Hiatus: 5:02

D2 School Committee Preliminary Election: 5:32

Upcoming Local Events: 7:10

Frame By Frame: 8:46

Further articles

The Massachusetts legislature’s closeout supplemental budget includes provisions for these transfers ahead of the development of a new regional justice center for the MetroWest region.

Currently outside of Framingham State’s Danforth Art Museum are a set of bright pink chairs—they’re called the Conversation Chairs, and they’re meant to initiate dialogues between neighbors and to inspire participants to draw representations of what those talks featured.

Following a community meeting on Monday, leaders on the project noted the first phase of construction into Framingham should hopefully begin in 2029.