After a string of planning and zoning board hearings and numerous plan revisions, the owners of a proposed mixed-use/condo conversion project at the former Emerson and Cuming property on Washington Street are inching their way toward the finish line but still have a few sizable hurdles to clear. Located a few lots north of Town […]
In an impactful meeting that lasted nearly three hours Tuesday night, the Canton Board of Selectmen approved a new tax rate for this year; agreed to make an offer to a new town administrator; and heard a plan by the fire chief to join a regional dispatch communications center out of Holbrook. Selectmen approved the […]
Canton’s Town Administrator Search Committee released its top four candidates on Tuesday night and they include two Massachusetts town executives as well as administrators from Portland, Maine, and a suburb of Chicago. Selectmen will now interview each of the following candidates in public session in the coming weeks: Greg Enos, assistant town administrator of Whitman; […]
The Traffic Advisory Committee, headed by selectmen Mark Porter and Kevin Feeney, has identified three or four projects that the committee will be examining in the coming months. The committee will be working with Town Planner Tim Richard in designing options for the Randolph-Washington Street intersection and looking at whether a roundabout makes sense at […]
This week the weather has been mild with sunny skies and temperatures almost summerlike in the 60s and 70s. Snow, ice, cold temperatures, and roof raking are the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. But DPW Superintendent Mike Trotta,
Former Canton Conservation Agent Robert Murphy has been ordered to pay $10,000 in civil penalties for multiple violations of the conflict of interest law while he was employed by the town, the State Ethics Commission announced earlier this week. In its decision, issued October 27, the commission found that Murphy violated section 17(a) of the […]
All three key issues discussed at Thursday night’s Canton School Committee meeting — full-day kindergarten, administrative office space, and before-school staffing at the Kennedy School — had one common denominator: the need for more building space. School Committee Chairman Bob Golledge told the 35 parents who attended the October 15 meeting as well as those […]
Slowly but surely, the Paul Revere Heritage Site established last spring by Canton town meeting voters is beginning to take shape at the former Plymouth Rubber property, and renovation work is well underway and mostly on schedule, according to the developer overseeing the project. In the meantime, the committee tasked with identifying uses for the […]
The Neponset River Watershed Association, the town of Canton, and several other communities in greater Boston will send representatives to an information meeting on October 19 at Canton Town Hall to discuss the impacts of new and potentially burdensome federal storm water regulations. Several communities, including Canton, have joined a consortium to oppose the regulations, […]
The Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee have approved $350,000 in emergency funds to replace an aging water main on Rebecca Road, which has led to discolored water for 32 homes in the area for over 18 months. Rebecca Road is located off Pleasant Street and abuts Andrea Drive, Walford Park Drive, Trudy Terrace, […]
