MAC: Plymouth Rubber Parking Lot Proposal

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There will be a hearing tonight before the Canton Zoning Board of Appeals on a petition by Canton Holdings LLC for a site plan approval for a three-story building with 105 sleeping rooms to be built as an assisted living residence on property located at the former Plymouth Rubber Company parking lot on Revere Street. The proposal includes construction of 85 units in total.

Congratulations go out to Canton American Legion Post 24 head baseball coach Greg Lyons and assistants Walter Mann and Al Jackson as they led the team to its best regular season record in several years, finishing with a 13-11 record and a 2-2 record in the playoffs.

The Canton Board of Health recently held a public hearing that will add an amendment to the Youth Access Tobacco Regulation, raising the purchase age of tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Canton A’s manager Kee Arguimbau was named the Cranberry Baseball League Manager of the Year. The A’s finished second in the seven-team league with an overall record of 15-9.

Connor Erickson, a former Canton High School and Wheaton College soccer star, has been named the head men’s soccer coach at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Connor is also the general manager of the Canton Citizen.

The first day of practice for the Canton High School varsity football team was held on Monday, August 19. Seventy-five players, including freshmen, have signed up for football this year.

This year, Canton High School will play archrival Stoughton High twice during the regular season — once on Friday night, October 11, at Stoughton and the traditional Thanksgiving Day game in Canton on November 28.

CHS will open the football season with a non-league game against Abington High on Thursday, September 12, at 6 p.m.

Selectmen recently voted to appoint Jill Hayes to the Canton Beautification Committee.

The new Stoughton House of Brews at 28 Porter Street has been called absolutely gorgeous with a comfortable living room atmosphere. According to a recent Patriot Ledger article, the former Porter Street Pub that has been boarded up for years was turned into an outstanding establishment by Leo and Sandra Fay of Stoughton. The House of Brews will be open seven days a week, serving a light breakfast from 6 to 11 a.m. and offering appetizers from 5 p.m. to midnight along with its craft beers and wines. It also holds an entertainment license.

Some more good news: According to state officials, Massachusetts took in more than $22.1 billion in taxes during fiscal year 2013. That was about $1 billion above the previous fiscal year, and it exceeded the state’s revised benchmark by $627 million.

Talking about the state, under the state senate term limit rules, Senate President Therese Murray (D-Plymouth) must give up the position in March 2015. State Senator Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst) recently announced that he has enough votes to be elected as the next senate president. If elected, Rosenberg, 63, would become the state’s first Jewish and openly gay senate president.

Talking about the state senate, they recently voted 23-15 to reject an amendment that would require an in-person review of any welfare recipient who has a balance of more than $1,500 on his or her EBT card (food stamp card) to determine if the person is compliant with the income, asset, identity, and resident requirements to receive welfare. A number of welfare recipients have been found to have balances of over $4,000 — and some as high as $12,000 — on an EBT card. The average food benefit is $230 a month. Having a balance of $1,500 or more should be looked into, especially if the balance is $12,000! This is taxpayer money so why would our state Senator Brian A. Joyce vote against reviewing balances of more than $1,500? Columnist Michael Graham of the Boston Herald put it this way: “It’s a simple question, and food stamp benefits are for people who cannot afford to eat. What kind of person is so broke he can’t buy food but so well off he can sit on $12,000 of grocery money and never touch it? MAC and many others are looking for answers!

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.

This is all for now folks. See you next week.

Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.

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