Man About Canton: Winter Parking Ban

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December is here, and it is time to think about the winter overnight parking restrictions. Town bylaws specify that all on-street parking longer than one hour between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., other than if acting in an emergency capacity, is prohibited between November 15 and April 1 so that streets are clear for snow removal. Violators are subject to a $25 fine for each offense.

As reported recently in the Canton Citizen, the town reopened the Reservoir Pond dam repair bid and will need to spend an additional $300,000 beyond the already appropriated amount of $950,000 to meet the newly awarded bid price to Northern Construction. According to Town Administrator Charlie Aspinwall, the repairs will start after Labor Day of 2018.

The Neponset River Watershed Association is headquartered at 2173 Washington Street in Canton. Ian Cooke is the executive director and can be reached at 781-575-0354.

Officials at Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton recently reported that all nine member towns have given their approval for the school to borrow the necessary funds to complete an $84.8 million renovation. The Mass. School Building Authority has also approved the project at a reimbursement rate of nearly 56 percent. The work is slated to begin in June 2018.

State Trooper Ryan Sceviour, 29, who is at the center of a controversy regarding his police report issued after his arrest of Alli Bibaud, the daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud, is a Canton native, a graduate of Canton High School, and a former Canton police officer. Trooper Sceviour, who filed a federal civil lawsuit against former and current state police leadership alleging he was unlawfully forced to alter the police report he filed, has been with the state police for a little over a year.

Rodman Ford recently donated $5,000 to the Canton Police Department.

The median household income in Massachusetts is $73,015, while the national median is $57,764, according to federal government data.

Pat Cawley, a Canton resident and longtime head coach of the CHS girls volleyball team, was recently inducted into the Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Cawley’s win-loss record stands at 183-51 as the varsity coach for the past 11 years in Canton.

In Massachusetts, 8.7 percent of adults age 65 and over currently smoke, which is one of the highest percentages in New England.

State representatives voted 156-0 to approve and send to the Senate a bill requiring all cities and towns to designate a parking space for veterans only during regular business hours at the city or town hall. The sign designating the space will read “Veterans Parking Only. This space is reserved for those who have served.”

The town of Somerville recently voted to fund the highest priced school building project in Massachusetts history. The $257 million plan calls for building a 1,590-student high school.

The Canton School Committee has submitted a three-year proposal to the Community Preservation Committee asking for the renovation of all three elementary school playgrounds at a cost of $275,000 each.

The Canton High School German Exchange Program is now in its 40th year. A group of students from Bocholt, Germany, visited Canton in the fall, and later this spring a group of Canton students will travel to Bocholt to reunite with their new friends.

Sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe had this to say about boys playing on girls field hockey teams: “Sorry, I still have a problem with teenage boys playing girls’ high school field hockey. I know the rules and understand that there’s no equivalent sport for the boys to play, but there’s a physicality in that sport at that level that makes it unfair.”

The Statue of Liberty features seven points in her crown, one for each of the continents.

Remember every chance taken is another chance to win.

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

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

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