Selectmen will be looking for more information but had a positive initial reaction to the proposed formation of a Canton Municipal Affordable Housing Trust and the benefits it may offer the town. Town Planner Laura Smead and Shelly Goehring of the Mass. Housing Partnership presented the proposal to selectmen at their meeting Tuesday night. Although […]
“It was already a red-letter day for giving thanks and cash,” said Rev. Roger Peltier, minister at First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Canton. Peltier was referring to Thanksgiving Sunday on November 18, when Canton area churches came together before a crowd of more than 250 strong for the first Interfaith Thanksgiving Service to be held in […]
Last week’s three-day cold spell and rainy conditions have caused a delay in the planned reopening of Pleasant Street as construction crews continue to work past daylight hours and into the weekend to complete repair work at the Reservoir Pond Dam. DPW Superintendent Mike Trotta said the work is now almost 95 percent complete and […]
A dual U.S.-Irish citizen recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to charges arising out of a multi-year mortgage fraud scheme. Patrick Lee, 45, formerly of Canton and Easton,
The School Committee has submitted an application to the Canton Community Preservation Committee (CCPC) to fund the purchase of one or two slides that would connect the upper property of the Luce Elementary School to the lower athletic fields. The formal name of the project is “The SHINE Slide: A Fun Solution That Creates Access […]
Six months after being rejected by the ZBA in its bid to qualify as a nursing or convalescent home under the zoning bylaw, the proponents of a proposed 48-bed substance abuse detoxification facility on Turnpike Street have gone back to the zoning board — this time with a new legal argument and hopes of a […]
Six injured, storefront damaged in multi-car crash Six people were taken to the hospital and a downtown Canton storefront incurred significant damage as a result of a three-car accident on Wednesday morning, November 7. The incident occurred around 8:15 a.m. in front of Paula’s Package Store, located at the corner of Washington and Mechanic streets. […]
With more than 50 percent of the Reservoir Pond dam repair project now completed and approved by the state, DPW Superintendent Mike Trotta estimates that Pleasant Street could reopen sometime within the next two to five weeks. Trotta pegged the end of Thanksgiving week (Nov. 23-24) as the best-case scenario with a more probable reopening […]
The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday night formally decided not to call for a special town election to fill the seat vacated last month by Kevin Feeney and will instead await the town’s regular election in early April to fill the vacant seat. Feeney formally resigned during an executive session on October 16 after being […]
School Committee Chairman Kristin Mirliani said the recent decision to eliminate public prayer from the CHS graduation ceremony was made not only for legal reasons, but also out of consideration and respect for all students’ beliefs. The decision, made over the summer in response to a complaint lodged by the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, […]
