The Canton Community Preservation Committee (CCPC) has finalized its spending recommendations for fiscal year 2020, and headlining the list are a number of recreation and open space projects — including a long-proposed destination slide structure at the Luce School and new interpretive signage at the Paul Revere Heritage Site — along with a good-faith gesture […]
Town Clerk Tracy Kenney has announced that nomination papers for the 2019 annual town election, to be held on April 2, will be available in the Town Clerk’s office beginning on Monday, January 7, at 9 a.m. The deadline to obtain nomination papers is Friday, February 8, at 5 p.m. Those seeking office in the […]
The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) notified the Canton School Department last week that it will not accept its application for funds to renovate the Galvin Middle School in the next round of funding. School Business Administrator Barry Nectow said Canton was one of 70 applicants, of which the MSBA selected 10-15 for funding. Canton […]
A last-minute infusion of state and local monies helped to push the proposed rebuild of Metropolis Skating Rink over the finish line at a special town meeting held last Wednesday in the CHS auditorium. A Canton institution since the early 1970s and longtime home to the CHS and Canton Youth Hockey programs, the state-owned and […]
The Canton Traffic Committee will be asking selectmen to sponsor a warrant article at the upcoming May town meeting giving the BOS the authority to set speed limits in certain sections of town at either 20 or 25 miles per hour. Selectmen would hold public hearings and seek input from the police chief before establishing […]
Canton voters will decide the fate of the Metropolis Skating Rink — shuttered since 2015 following a roof collapse — at a special town meeting scheduled for next Wednesday, December 12, at 7 p.m. in the Canton High School auditorium. Next week’s action could finally set the town on a definitive path toward rebuilding the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
