Man About Canton: Dunkin’ Staying in Canton

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It looks like Dunkin’ Brands will remain at its present location at 130 Royall Street through 2025, if the 2014 annual town meeting approves an extension of a tax increment financing plan already approved by the Canton Board of Selectmen and the Board of Assessors. Under the plan, Dunkin Brands is expected to receive a tax savings of over $1.2 million, but the town is still expected to receive between $400,000 and $600,0000 annually in taxes.

The Canton Board of Health will host its Annual Health Fair on Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. in the Canton High School cafeteria.

The South Coast Rail plan that would bring passenger trains to Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton will be known as the Stoughton Straight Rail Alternative. The proposal would extend the rail line that currently terminates in Stoughton, follow an inactive rail bed (discontinued in 1958) with a proposed trestle over the Hockomock swamp in Easton and Raynham, then split south to Taunton with a main branch heading to New Bedford and a secondary branch to Fall River.

The Canton Lions Club is holding its fall yard sale on Saturday, October 26, at the offices of Galvin Insurance on Washington Street from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Halloween is the second highest grossing commercial holiday after Christmas.

Janet Walrod is the chairman of the Canton Council on Aging. Elaine Gilmore is the vice chairman.

The council is sponsoring a trip to see the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday, November 1. The trip will include a dinner at Gregg’s Restaurant, sightseeing at the zoo, and a walking tour of the Jack-O-Lantern spectacular. The cost is $59 per person. For more information, call the Canton Senior Center at 781-821-1323.

The First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church will hold its second annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, November 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church, located at 1508 Washington Street in Canton. Vendors are wanted, and the cost per card table is $25 or $35 for a large banquet-size table. If interested, call Marie at 508-297-0283.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston recently announced phase two of its reorganization of parishes. In Stoughton, Immaculate Conception and St. James will share resources, with one pastor leading a team of priests, one parish council, and one financial council. St. John’s and St. Gerard’s in Canton were part of the Archdiocese’s phase one implementations. The reorganization is part of a plan to address declining mass attendance, financial struggles, and a shrinking number of Catholic priests.

The construction of the fourth travel lane on the section of interstate roadway between Randolph at Route 24 through Canton to Route 106 in Westwood is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. The work is part of a $53.7 million project to widen a 5.5-mile section of Route 93 and Route 95, providing an additional travel lane in each direction.

Canton is one of only 22 Massachusetts communities that have achieved a AAA bond rating, the highest possible rating awarded by Standard & Poor. As a result of the bond rating, Canton’s interest rate on borrowing is at 2.4 percent.

According o the U.S. Census Bureau, we now have 40 million Americans over the age of 65. Fifty years ago, there were only 17 million Americans over age 65. Our aging population is growing.

The Canton High School Class of 1993 will hold its 20^th reunion on Friday, November 29, from 7 p.m. to 12 midnight at Gatherings at Brookmeadow, 100 Everendon Road in Canton. Tickets are $55 per person in advance and $75 per person at the door. Please contact Joanna (DeFelice) Alessi with any questions or for further information at joannarae@aol.com.

Benjamin Puritz, 63, will retire in February 2014 as the town administrator in Sharon. Puritz started as the administrator in Sharon in February 1981 and will have served in that capacity for 33 years. The town of Sharon was recently named America’s best place to live by Money Magazine in a ranking of towns with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.

In the Good News Department, selectmen announced the receipt of a $251,000 grant from the federal government to pay for damages to culverts on Pine and Bolivar streets incurred during a storm in 2010.

Time has a wonderful way to show us what really matters.

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

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

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