The Canton Water and Sewer Department is offering generous rebates for residents who replace older toilets and clothes washers with water-efficient appliances. Rebates are dispensed in the form of a credit on residential water/sewer bills. Terms and conditions apply, and residents are encouraged to call the water department prior to purchase to confirm eligibility. Only […]
Last weekend’s surprise snowstorm left thousands in town without power — as many as 3,000 by Sunday morning. That number was reduced to 1,000 by Monday afternoon, 241 by Tuesday, and 80 as of yesterday morning. However, most of the remaining homes without power are concentrated in the Lake Road area (around Glen Echo Lake), […]
The School Committee announced on October 20 that after a long impasse, it has reached an agreement with the Canton Teachers Association on a one-year contract. The contract covers the current school year and will expire on August 31, 2012. The contract calls for no salary increases or cost of living adjustments (COLA), and in […]
Tensions ran high at last week’s Planning Board meeting as members George Jenkins and Jeremy Comeau, for the second meeting in a row, clashed with Canton attorney Paul Schneiders and his client, Ronen Drory, over a proposed gas station/convenience store project on Route 138. Having previously engaged in a lengthy discussion over traffic impacts and […]
Residents from the Canton community have helped rescue a dog named Adel from war-torn Afghanistan, and he is now safely in Rhode Island. Local contributions quickly exceeded the $3,000 request made by Canton police officer Glen Piro — the total hit $3,218 this week. Piro, who is currently serving in Afghanistan, sought the financial assistance […]
Is America’s “high-stakes and high-pressure” culture hurting its children? Are students today really overworked, overstressed, and underprepared for the working world? That is the argument put forth by filmmaker and mother of three Vicki Abeles, whose first feature-length documentary, Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture, will be presented to the Canton […]
State health officials have alerted 200 Massachusetts communities — including Canton — of a public advisory not to eat fish caught by local fishermen because of elevated organic mercury levels. In Canton, the four principal locations impacted by the advisory are Reservoir Pond, the Neponset River, which stretches from Walpole to Boston, the Ponkapoag River, […]
At the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, students of all ages share the playground. Sometimes the fifth graders use it; sometimes the first graders use it. Last fall, one first grade girl, Lucy Falcone, was having so much fun that she didn’t want to leave the playground. A fifth grader, Jenny Wolicki, was standing on […]
For the first time in many years, the Canton High School graduation ceremony will take place on a different day of the week at a new location. The Canton School Committee, in consultation with Dr. Doug Dias, voted last Thursday to change the date of this year’s ceremony from Thursday, June 7, to Friday, June […]
The issue of traffic was a recurring theme at the Planning Board meeting last Wednesday as the board held hearings on three separate site plan proposals — a gas station/convenience store on Route 138, a large liquor store in the Blue Hills section of Route 138, and a seven-unit condominium project on Plymouth Street in […]
