Man About Canton: Canton to pay more for using less
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
This really is a strange world. Despite the fact that Canton residents have been using less water, the selectmen are going to raise our water bills at about $7 per month between January and June, and that’s on top of the 10 percent increase that went into effect on July 1, 2009. They say that these increases are necessary because using less water has resulted in not enough money being generated to meet the cost for producing and generating our water.
If you’re a candlepin bowler, you probably know that the old bowling alley on Washington Street in Stoughton (Route 138, next to Alex’s) is history. It has been torn down, and the vacant lot has been fenced in. Most Canton bowlers are now going over to Norwood on the other side of the Neponset River to knock the pins down.
The Liberty Mutual Insurance Group has won government approval to open a branch office in the Zhejiang Province in China, becoming the first foreign insurer to operate in the third largest property and casualty insurance market in the world..
The Village Shoppes Mall, completed in 2001 at Cobb’s Corner, has 283,000 square feet of space, while the new Legacy Place Mall, completed in 2009 in Dedham, has 675,000 square feet.
It’s that time of year again. Girl Scouts will be selling their cookies through Sunday, March 14; so make it a point to buy a few boxes because it’s for a good cause — and besides, they’re delicious.
Judging from all the bumper-to-bumper traffic creeping through Canton on Washington Street, MAC can only surmise that reactivating those two new traffic lights at Neponset Street and at Church Street is a failure. Traffic moved through town faster when these lights were blinking yellow.
Speaking of downtown Canton, the selectmen still haven’t made any effort to correct the wrong-way banner situation they caused. They can’t claim they don’t have the money for the job. They’re sitting on $269,000 in the Stoughton mitigation fund they control.
Now that School Superintendent John D’Auria, Assistant Superintendent Alan Dewey, and School Committee member Bob Barker have decided to jump ship and become lame ducks, it suggests that they decided to bail out rather than working to pull us through the current fiscal crisis we’re in. Hopefully, their replacements will be innovative.
Congratulations to Canton’s outstanding Pop Warner cheerleaders who took first place in the National Pop Warner Cheerleading Championships at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex on December 12 in Orlando, Florida. The entire town is proud of them and their accomplishments.
The public reaction to the new holiday lights at the Town Hall and in the Downtown Business District has been generally positive, but many residents would like to see more of the lights in the Washington Street areas where there are none. There have been many suggestions to decorate the Sydeman Park next to the downtown waterfall and also the Uliano Park at Shepard’s Pond.
The world’s tallest structure is now located in Dubai. At a reported height of 2,717 feet, the Burj Khalifa (formerly known as the Burj Dubai) surpasses the previous record holder, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
The cost of advertising during the NFL’s Super Bowl is still an expensive proposition. Thirty-second ads once again will cost between $2.3 million and $3 million; and this year, three companies that were Super Bowl advertisers for many years will be missing: Pepsi Co., Inc., General Motors Corporation, and the Fed Ex Corporation.
Finally, if you think you’re paying too much for a can of tuna fish, consider this: A 513-pound bluefin tuna recently fetched $177,000 at an auction at the world’s largest wholesale fish market in Tokyo. It was the most paid for a bluefin in nine years. Japan is the world’s biggest consumer of seafood, with the Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught.
You’re not rewarded for having brains. You’re only rewarded for using them.
This is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
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Posted by Joe DeFelice
on Jan 21 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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