Kari Rhinehart, co-founder of the Franklin group If It Was Your Child, will speak at the event at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters.

The EPA wants to inject the groundwater in and around the site with material that will make the harmful chemicals in the water less toxic.

Among other things, the EPA wants to treat groundwater south of the Amphenol site using a barrier to break down harmful chemicals as they flow through.

The Seattle-based company said Wednesday in a news release that the new sorting and shipping warehouse will bring operations close to area customers and create “hundreds” of jobs in Franklin.

A new report urges the Environmental Protection Agency to fully investigate the pollution in Franklin before coming up with a final cleanup plan and avoid mistakes it made decades ago.

The nonprofit Safe Haven Baby Boxes opened its 59th and 60th baby boxes statewide Wednesday in Martinsville and Franklin.

The Environmental Protection Agency finished testing a treatment technology on groundwater pollution in Franklin this week -- and it looks like it worked.

State officials have known about the old Hougland Tomato Cannery for some time. But until last week, they didn't have enough data about the contaminated groundwater from the cannery to map it out.

A group of Franklin residents is suing the company they believe may be responsible for rare child cancers in the area. The class-action lawsuit was filed against Amphenol on Tuesday in a federal district court.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a Dec. 3 open house in Franklin to discuss a groundwater treatment pilot study and sewer and soil work near the former Amphenol Corp. site.