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Next time you’re in Boston, try the Dry Dock Café
DID YOU KNOW…
The next time
you’re in Boston and looking for a great place for a delicious,
reasonably priced lunch, MAC suggests you try the
Dry Dock Café on Dry Dock
Avenue in South Boston. It is owned by longtime
Canton residents George and Cathy Spiropoulos, and has been
featured on the Phantom Gourmet television show, which
proclaimed that the Dry Dock’s “gigantic
portions of ultra fresh seafood are served up at ridiculously
low prices.”
While every restaurant claims to have the
freshest seafood, at the Dry Dock it’s actually true because
they’re located in the same building as North Coast Seafoods,
one of the country’s leading seafood distributing companies. The
seafood comes in from the ocean and right to the café. When you
are there, you will probably see someone you know from Canton or
a Boston politician or two. When MAC was there the other day, he
had a conversation with former Speaker of the House Tom Finneran
and had just missed Boston Mayor Tom Mennino. The Phantom
Gourmet summed it up best, stating that the Dry Dock has “the
freshest seafood, the biggest portions, and the lowest prices
... a Phantom Gourmet Hidden Jewel.” So try it out — you
won’t be disappointed!
Town Clerk Tracy Kenney
is accepting applications from any Canton registered voter who
is interested in becoming an election worker. For more
information, call the clerk’s office at 781-821-5013.
MAC joins
others in extending special town-wide thanks to the town of
Canton’s Uniformed Funeral
Honor Guard, which provides military honors at
funerals of Canton veterans. Organized in 2002, over the eight
years ending in 2009, the Honor Guard has performed either at
the graveside or at the church of 331 veterans, whose families
have been very appreciative.
Robin Vaughn of
Randolph has been nominated by Governor Patrick to be the new
clerk magistrate of the Stoughton District Court, replacing
longtime Clerk Magistrate
Don Stapleton of Canton, who has retired. Ms. Vaughn
is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Georgetown University
Law Center. She has been the assistant clerk magistrate of the
Suffolk Superior Court’s criminal section since 1988. Her
Stoughton nomination must be approved by the governor’s council.
According to
the U.S. Coast Guard, a sunken tug boat belonging to
RDA Construction of Canton
has spilled an estimated 25 to 50 gallons of oil into
the Fore River Basin near the Braintree-Weymouth border, and the
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection says RDA
has hired Green Environmental of Quincy to clean up the spill.
In the meantime, the tugboat has been raised and removed from
the river basin.
Hooray! Bowing
to widespread pressure,
UMass President Jack
Wilson has volunteered to freeze his pay without any
raises until the UMass faculty and staff receive raises. Wilson
had been criticized for getting a $72,600 raise from the
financially troubled school’s trustees while they were raising
student fees and asking professors to take pay cuts.
St. John’s is
holding its Mardi Gras 2010 celebration on Saturday, February
13, in the St. John’s Parish Center. Social hour is at 5 p.m.
and the full-course dinner begins at 6 p.m. Ticket prices are:
Adults $18, children $5, family max, $48. For more information,
call 781-828-0090.
Congratulations to
Senator-elect Scott Brown. He trounced Attorney
General Martha Coakley and carried the town of Canton 60 percent
(5,770) to Coakley’s 47.1 percent (3,787). Independent
candidate Joe Kennedy only received 80 votes in Canton.
Selectman John Connolly
has moved to create a special task force to investigate ways to
improve conditions for town employees at the town’s DPW garage
on Bolivar Street. MAC agrees the improvements are long
overdue.
Finally, if
you were wondering about MAC’s svelte appearance, you should
know that he lost over 30 pounds and has kept if off for more
than a year by being “Terbanized” at the
Terban Health and Fitness
Center at 11 Evans Drive in Stoughton. Terban has
been in business for 33 years and will get you healthy and in
great shape. Call
781-344-8947 and ask for Howie Terban. It’s
definitely worth the phone call.
The distance is
nothing. It’s the first step that’s important.
This is all
for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
February 11, 2010
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