Published: 5/12/2023 7:45:50 AM
The ongoing effort to create a makerspace in Franklin will try to drum up support, and do some entertaining in the process, at Franklin’s Community Day on Saturday.
“We have looked at many places only to have it fall through, or someone wants us to pay a rent that’s five times the previous rent. They want to charge what Franklin will become, not what it is,” said Bill Yacopucci, a member of Concord’smakerspace who has been trying for years to start a makerspace in his hometown.
Members of the makerspace community will be in the cottage at Odell Park during the annual Community Day event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“This is the second year we’re there. The idea is to give people a sense of what a makerspace can be. Each room has a little something – can’t bring the big things in – like…