MAC: New Hotel & Restaurant

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The Boston Mutual Company is in the process of planning to construct a new hotel with 138 rooms and a “top-line,” 6,000-square-foot restaurant on a three-acre parcel situated off Royall Street between its company and the Reebok headquarters. The project has the backing of all the corporate abutters as well as the nearby residents and the Friends of the Blue Hills. Sounds like the company certainly did their homework before presenting the project to the Canton Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals.

The 2017 fiscal year municipal capital budget includes $142,000 for the new senior center parking lot and $100,000 for the Pequitside Farm parking redesign. It also includes $700,000 for a new town ambulance.

The Canton Council on Aging offers a men’s senior fitness class at the new senior center. They meet every Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call the senior center at 781-828-1323.

Canton Zoning Board of Appeals alternate member Gary Vinciguerra, a former member of the Planning Board, was appointed by the Board of Selectmen to replace John Marini as a full-time member of the ZBA.

Selectmen recently approved the transfer of an all-alcohol club license from the Blue Hill Associates, previous operators of the Blue Hill Country Club, to new owners Concert Blue Hill, LLC. The new owners want to serve beer on beverage carts during golf outings on Mondays and also in the pool area.

The Zoning Board of Appeals recently voted 3-0 to grant a special permit and associated zoning relief to JPM Development Company to convert the old Emerson and Cuming building off Washington Street into 58 condos and 8,000 square feet of commercial space.

Canton is ranked 75 out of 327 towns in the state in paying taxes for an average single-family tax bill of $6,285 while neighboring Stoughton is ranked 166 with an average tax bill of $4,597 per year. Milton is ranked at number 40 with an average tax bill of $8,155. The state average single-family tax bill is $5,438, according to the state Department of Revenue.

Under a new state rule, communities are allowed to spread the high costs of clearing snow and ice overruns into future fiscal years, and local towns can use stabilization funds and other one-time revenues to pay off their snow-removal debt.

From MAC’s trivia file: John Tyler (1790-1862), the 10th president of the United States, still has two grandsons that are alive today. John Tyler, who had 15 children, had a son, Lyon, when he was 63 years old. Lyon had a son at ages 69 and 75. As of today, both surviving sons, one born in 1922 and the other in 1928, are still alive, making their grandfather, born in 1790, the earliest president of the United States with living grandchildren.

The penny just got a little cheaper to make. The penny is made entirely of zinc and it cost the U.S. mint 1.43 cents to produce last year, which is down 14 percent from 2014 as zinc prices over the past three years have fallen 34 percent. The last time a penny cost what it was worth was in 2005. The peak year to make a penny was 2011 when it cost 2.41 cents.

The cost of air space for a 30-second commercial during the February 7 Super Bowl on CBS was $5 million.

On February 14 of this year, Canton had a record-low temperature of 13 degrees below zero. Boston’s all-time record-low temperature for any date was 18 below zero set on February 9, 1934.

The Chinese New Year of 4714 began on February 8. It is the year of the monkey, which is positioned ninth among the 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

This is all for now folks; see you next week.

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

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