Man About Canton: Senior Citizen Tax Credit Program
By Joe DeFeliceDID YOU KNOW …
The Canton Board of Selectmen will once again offer to Canton senior citizens (age 60 and older) the “Senior Citizen Tax Credit Program.” The program affords seniors the opportunity to work part-time for the community. In exchange, the town will provide residential property tax credit up to $1,000 per year. Participants will be credited at an hourly rate up to $8 per hour with a maximum of 125 hours annually. To obtain an application, see Diane Tynan, director of the Council on Aging, at the Senior Center at 660 Washington Street, or call 781-828-1323. Applications must be submitted by February 2, 2012.
The Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) is offering Massachusetts veterans the option to have the word “veteran” appear on their drivers’ licenses or ID cards.
The Patriot Ledger newspaper, based in Quincy, celebrated its 175th anniversary on January 7, 2012. It published its first edition on January 7, 1837, with 300 copies. Today, it has over 100,000 readers from south shore communities, including many subscribers from Canton.
MAC is wondering if anyone will be able to fill the recently advertised administrative assistant to the Planning Board position. It has more requirements in its job description than those for a town engineer.
Plans are moving ahead for the Sharon Commons, a shopping center just off Interstate 95. According to Sharon Town Administrator Benjamin Puritz, construction will begin in the spring. Anchor stores will include a Target and a BJ Wholesale Club.
The Harbar Company, which has 90 employees and manufactures tortillas and flatbread, will be seeking a tax incremental financing abatement from the Canton Annual Town Meeting in April so that the company can double its tortilla-making facility and add 30 more jobs. They plan to move into one of the two vacant buildings at the old Tweeter headquarters on Pequot Way.
This past year, the Canton High School field hockey team won its third straight Division 2 south sectional crown. Leading the Bulldogs (20-1-1) were senior captain center midfielder Michelle McNeil, senior captain forward Cady Kelly, and senior goalie Kolleen White. All three girls were named to the Patriot Ledger Field Hockey All-Scholastic Team. The girls’ field hockey team lost a 3-2 heartbreaker in the EMass finals to Watertown, which went on to win the Division 2 state championship.
NBC has sold all the advertising time for the February 5 Super Bowl game. The average cost for a 30-second spot this year was $3.5 million with some time slots costing as much as $4 million for just 30 seconds.
Canton Community Television has donated approximately $100,000 in video equipment to Canton High School. CHS television production teacher Ed McDonough said the donation will allow the school to replace old equipment with more modern, up-to-date technology.
The superintendent of the Stoughton schools, Marguerite Rizzi, will receive a 20 percent raise, from $140,000 to $168,500 per year, effective July 1, 2012. In October 2010, after only one year of a three-year contract, the Stoughton School Committee voted to award Rizzi a five-year contract extension, even though the teachers’ union voted 121-6 that it had no confidence in her leadership. However, she must be doing something right, as the school committee’s vote was unanimous, 5-0.
The U.S. Postal Service is introducing a new flat rate of $39.95 for overnight express mail boxes weighing up to 70 pounds that are sent domestically, effective January 22, 2012.
Two Canton schoolgirls are making a name for themselves in the musical circles as gifted vocalists. They are the Oladipo Sisters: Oladunni, 12, and Olayeni, 10. The sisters have sung at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston and with the Boston Pops Orchestra. They have been described as “big talent.”
1099 forms are now due to individuals by February 15 and not January 31; and taxes are due on April 17 this year.
Massachusetts’s gas prices have risen almost 20 cents a gallon over the past month to an average of $3.39, the same as the national average. A year ago at this time, the Massachusetts average was $3.08 a gallon. Things are not getting better.
It has been suggested to MAC that the defunct lamppost at the corner of Neponset and Washington streets could become Canton’s first solar-powered streetlight. Maybe the Canton Green Team and the Green Team Auxiliary could work with the Board of Selectmen and the Department of Public Works to determine if and how this might be achieved.
In the 1940s, a computer at Harvard University malfunctioned, and the expert who was working on it investigated, found a moth in one of its circuits, and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have “a bug” in it … and now you know the rest of the story.
Before you speak, ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, and is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
This is all for now folks. See you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.
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on Jan 25 2012. Filed under Featured Content, Man About Canton, Opinion.
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