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CANTON: PIZZA CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH
SHORE
DID YOU KNOW…
In case you haven’t looked
around lately, Canton now has 17 locations (that we know of)
where you can buy a pizza: Apollo Pizza, Beatty Post 24 American
Legion, Bertucci’s, Big D’s (Neponset Café), CenterField’s,
Center Pizza, Cobb’s Corner Pizza, D&E, Good Name Pizza, Grand
Slam Deli, Kelly’s Pub, Mangia Neapolitan Pizza, 99 Restaurant,
Pizza Works (House of Pizza), Rosario’s Grille, Slices Italian
Pizzeria, and Shaw’s supermarket. We probably should
include Papa Gino’s
at Cobb’s Corner on our list, but technically it is over the
line in Stoughton. The latest addition to this long list is
Good Name Pizza
at 588 Washington Street in the Downtown Business District where
the former Good Taste Eatery Chinese restaurant and Jim’s
Variety used to be located. While
Junction Pizza
at Canton Junction was recently closed, it is available for an
entrepreneur who is brave enough to do battle with all the
competition. Additionally, there are also persistent rumors
about Dominos
coming to town in the near future. We can’t imagine why.
Incidentally,
pizza and calzones prepared by
Dick Lane are
on the menu at the
Beatty Post American Legion between 5 and 10 p.m. on
Thursdays and Fridays. Also, if you like to sing, Friday evening
is Karaoke night, so take a ride down and enjoy yourself.
There is still
a lot of grumbling going on about the
MBTA arbitrarily charging St. John’s parishioners to
park in the empty Canton Center parking lot behind the church
during mass when the trains on are weekend hours.
Voters in
Sharon and Dedham have approved multi-million-dollar property
tax increases to pay for school improvements, while voters in
Plymouth, Carver and Swampscott rejected their increases.
There will be a charity
hockey game between the Canton Fire/Police team and a team from
the Boston police on Sunday, February 27, starting at 8 p.m.
at the Metropolis Skating Rink at 2167 Washington
Street. Admission is free. There will be a 50/50 raffle, a
“chuck-a-puck” contest, and a silent auction to raise funds,
which will go directly to the
Ricky Shannon 27 Foundation as well as to two $1,000
scholarships. So you and your family should attend and enjoy the
show while supporting a very worthy cause. If you can’t make it
to the game, you can drop off a check payable to the “Canton
Firefighters’ Association” at the Revere Street fire
headquarters.
The Stoughton
selectmen voted 3-2 on February 2 to offer Stoughton District
Court Judge Francis T.
Crimmins a three-year contract as town manager. Board
Chairman Stephen Anastos and members Joseph Mokrisky and John
Anderson voted to approve the offer, while John Anzivino and
Cynthia Walsh voted against it. Anastos said last week that
Crimmins has already accepted the job. Crimmins, who is expected
to start work on February 22, will make $158,000 a year. Former
town manager Mark S. Stankiewivz, who accepted the position of
town manager in Plymouth in December, was paid about $120,000 a
year at the end of his tenure. Crimmins, a former selectman and
town meeting moderator, joined the Stoughton court in 1992 after
being appointed by Governor William Weld. He became the court’s
presiding judge in 2001.
In reviewing
the results of last month’s U.S. Senate special election,
Democratic Attorney
General Martha Coakley only carried two South Shore
communities, while
Republican Scott Brown swept her in all the others.
Coakley carried Milton by 89 votes, and Sharon by 925 votes.
It was a
short-lived retirement for the folks at
Connors Wayside Furniture.
They are now back in business at 2239 Washington Street (Route
138), and they are available to fill your furniture needs. As a
matter of fact, you can save 40 to 60 percent off retail during
their winter sale. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. So stop in and see them, or
call them at 781-828-0785.
A state-wide
group of citizens known as the
“Coalition for the Repeal
of 40B” is trying to repeal the controversial
Massachusetts affordable housing law known as Chapter 40B.
However, they are not going to have an easy time of it because a
number of developers, lawyers, and consultants are now
organizing and planning to spend as much as $1 million to combat
the citizen effort. Chapter 40B has been in effect for 40 years
and allows developers to bypass local zoning if they set aside
at least 20 percent of their housing stock for low- and
moderate-income housing. A pro-40B organization called Citizen’s
Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) estimates
the law has helped create
56,000 housing units since the early 1970s. The
upcoming 40B fight should be interesting.
If you are
tired of winter weather, take heart —
Red Sox
pitchers, catchers and injured players voluntarily reported to
spring training in Fort Myers, Florida today, February 18. Other
players are obligated to report by March 2 to get ready for the
first spring training games against teams from Northeastern
University and Boston College on March 3.
Most of us spend a lot
of time dreaming of the future, never realizing that a little of
it arrives each day.
This is all
for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
February 18, 2010
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