The State Ethics Commission has launched a formal investigation into the business dealings of former Canton Conservation Agent Robert Murphy that focuses on his relationship to an engineering firm that provided paid services to several Canton projects while he was still employed by the town, according to a copy of a summons obtained by the […]
Selectmen followed the wishes of the DPW and the residents of the Pleasant Circle-Capper Drive neighborhood and approved the installation of new stop and no parking signs at the corners of many of the intersections. The signs are intended to slow speeding motorists and to improve safety in the neighborhood. The new traffic measures came […]
Nearly a year after launching its third major rezoning effort only to watch it be soundly rejected by Canton town officials, the owner of the Plymouth Rubber site on Revere Street, Napleton subsidiary Canton Holdings LLC, is abandoning its dream of building a housing development and will instead proceed under the current industrial zoning. Exactly […]
An explosive mix of competing interests collided at a zoning board meeting late last month as neighbors angrily protested a local developer’s proposal to raze and rebuild an existing two-family home on Chapman Street. The June 27 hearing, which continues next Thursday evening at Town Hall, attracted dozens of residents from the Culloden Drive subdivision, […]
Both the Board of Assessors and Board of Selectmen are prepared to extend a tax increment financing (TIF) agreement with Dunkin’ Brands for another five years in order to convince the popular restaurant franchisor to stay in Canton. The company, which owns both the Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands, has been headquartered at 130 Royall […]
The Canton Community Preservation Committee — the local agency tasked with reviewing requests for Community Preservation Act funds and recommending projects to town meeting — has recently finalized its application process and is almost ready to start listening to proposals, reported committee chairman Lisa Lopez. While normally this process would wait until the fall, Lopez […]
The Gridley Preschool program, offered through the Recreation Department, has been cancelled due to a lack of interest and participation. The program was facing a $10,000 deficit due to low enrollment totals and low tuition rates, which were expected to go up considerably next year. Selectmen had recently given Recreation Director Janet Maguire a 10-day […]
What do blue spotted salamanders, prehistoric stone tools, and the idyllic charm of a 100-year-old neighborhood have in common? As far as a group of 12 families on the Canton-Milton border are concerned, all three would be seriously threatened if a large affordable housing development were permitted to move forward as planned under the state’s […]
The Plymouth Rubber redevelopment site is once again at a crossroads after the Board of Selectmen unanimously agreed Tuesday night that the project, as it now stands, is too densely populated and not suited for downtown Canton. “The community doesn’t need more apartments — there is no void in this type of housing,” noted Selectman […]
A lengthy and at times testy standoff between a pair of local builders and the Canton Conservation Commission over a proposed five-unit housing project on Plymouth Street came to a head earlier this month when ConCom members voted unanimously to deny the project, citing a laundry list of concerns pertaining to riverfront protection and stormwater […]
