Man About Canton: Next time you’re in Boston, try the Dry Dock Café
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW…
The next time you’re in Boston and looking for a great place for a delicious, reasonably priced lunch, MAC suggests you try the Dry Dock Café on Dry Dock Avenue in South Boston. It is owned by longtime Canton residents George and Cathy Spiropoulos, and has been featured on the Phantom Gourmet television show, which proclaimed that the Dry Dock’s “gigantic portions of ultra fresh seafood are served up at ridiculously low prices.”
While every restaurant claims to have the freshest seafood, at the Dry Dock it’s actually true because they’re located in the same building as North Coast Seafoods, one of the country’s leading seafood distributing companies. The seafood comes in from the ocean and right to the café. When you are there, you will probably see someone you know from Canton or a Boston politician or two. When MAC was there the other day, he had a conversation with former Speaker of the House Tom Finneran and had just missed Boston Mayor Tom Mennino. The Phantom Gourmet summed it up best, stating that the Dry Dock has “the freshest seafood, the biggest portions, and the lowest prices … a Phantom Gourmet Hidden Jewel.” So try it out — you won’t be disappointed!
Town Clerk Tracy Kenney is accepting applications from any Canton registered voter who is interested in becoming an election worker. For more information, call the clerk’s office at 781-821-5013.
MAC joins others in extending special town-wide thanks to the town of Canton’s Uniformed Funeral Honor Guard, which provides military honors at funerals of Canton veterans. Organized in 2002, over the eight years ending in 2009, the Honor Guard has performed either at the graveside or at the church of 331 veterans, whose families have been very appreciative.
Robin Vaughn of Randolph has been nominated by Governor Patrick to be the new clerk magistrate of the Stoughton District Court, replacing longtime Clerk Magistrate Don Stapleton of Canton, who has retired. Ms. Vaughn is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Georgetown University Law Center. She has been the assistant clerk magistrate of the Suffolk Superior Court’s criminal section since 1988. Her Stoughton nomination must be approved by the governor’s council.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a sunken tug boat belonging to RDA Construction of Canton has spilled an estimated 25 to 50 gallons of oil into the Fore River Basin near the Braintree-Weymouth border, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection says RDA has hired Green Environmental of Quincy to clean up the spill. In the meantime, the tugboat has been raised and removed from the river basin.
Hooray! Bowing to widespread pressure, UMass President Jack Wilson has volunteered to freeze his pay without any raises until the UMass faculty and staff receive raises. Wilson had been criticized for getting a $72,600 raise from the financially troubled school’s trustees while they were raising student fees and asking professors to take pay cuts.
St. John’s is holding its Mardi Gras 2010 celebration on Saturday, February 13, in the St. John’s Parish Center. Social hour is at 5 p.m. and the full-course dinner begins at 6 p.m. Ticket prices are: Adults $18, children $5, family max, $48. For more information, call 781-828-0090.
Congratulations to Senator-elect Scott Brown. He trounced Attorney General Martha Coakley and carried the town of Canton 60 percent (5,770) to Coakley’s 47.1 percent (3,787). Independent candidate Joe Kennedy only received 80 votes in Canton.
Selectman John Connolly has moved to create a special task force to investigate ways to improve conditions for town employees at the town’s DPW garage on Bolivar Street. MAC agrees the improvements are long overdue.
Finally, if you were wondering about MAC’s svelte appearance, you should know that he lost over 30 pounds and has kept if off for more than a year by being “Terbanized” at the Terban Health and Fitness Center at 11 Evans Drive in Stoughton. Terban has been in business for 33 years and will get you healthy and in great shape. Call 781-344-8947 and ask for Howie Terban. It’s definitely worth the phone call.
The distance is nothing. It’s the first step that’s important.
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 Feb 11 2010. Filed under Man About Canton, Opinion.
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