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DON’T PARK ON THE STREET
AFTER 1:00 AM
DID YOU KNOW…
November is
here, and it’s time to think about
winter’s overnight parking
restrictions. Town bylaws specify that all overnight
on-street parking (1 a.m. to 6 a.m.) is prohibited between
November 15 and April 1 so that streets are kept clear for snow
removal. Violators are subject to a $15 fine for each violation.
 According to
the recent annual survey by
Forbes Magazine,
the Boston Bruins
are the seventh most valuable National Hockey League
team. It states the Bruins are worth $263 million, while the
Toronto Maple Leafs, at $440 million, is the most valuable team.
A very
impressive 84 percent (or 12,133) of the town’s 14,577 eligible
voters came out to vote on election day; and with 6,455 votes,
Obama/Biden beat McCain/Palin (who received 5,391 votes). Too
bad we can’t get that kind of turnout for our other town
elections.
The Bank of Canton
has a new president and chief executive officer.
Stephen Costello,
an employee since 1992, has been promoted to the position.
Former President and CEO
James Egan will
continue to serve the bank as chairman of the board of
directors.
The
outstanding Canton High
School boys’ soccer team won the Hockomock League
title this season with a 14-1-1 league record (15-1-1 overall),
and then made it all the way to the south sectional semifinals
before being beaten by Nauset on penalty kicks. During their
season, the Bulldogs’
goalkeeper, senior captain
Devin O’Gorman,
became the all-time leader in shutouts with 21 and broke the
single-season record with 14.
Delta Airlines
has completed a $2.8 billion deal to acquire Northwest Airlines,
creating the world’s biggest carrier. Delta’s headquarters will
be located in Atlanta, and Delta’s chief will head the combined
carrier, which will integrate over the next 18 months.
The Exxon-Mobil Corp.,
based in Irving, Texas, the world’s largest publicly
traded oil company, has reported that it shattered its own
record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S.
corporation by earning $14.83 billion (that’s billion with a b)
in the third quarter of 2008. You can imagine what the figure is
for a full year. Exxon produces 3 percent of the world’s oil and
pays its top executives incredibly huge salaries; and of course,
it denies any price-gauging.
Waste Management, Inc.
has been fined $27,200 by the Federal Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for excessive idling of their trucks at its
Stoughton, Taunton and West Boylston depots.
If you drive
through the Blue Hills
Reservation, you should know that part of
Chickatawbut Road will be closed for three weeks beginning
December 3 because the MWRA is building two 10-million-gallon
water storage tanks that will be buried in the east end of the
old Blue Hills Reservoir. The tanks will hold an emergency
supply of safe drinking water and an emergency supply for fire
protection. The closed roadway will be between Willard Street in
Quincy and Hillside Street in Milton.
The latest
statistics regarding the
Massachusetts housing
market indicate the median price of homes has
declined 16 percent from a year ago, and is now below $300,000
for the first time since 2003.
Following up
on the recent piece that MAC wrote about the change of
management at the struggling
Canton-based Tweeter
Electronics chain, it appears things are worse than
first thought. Published reports say the company has closed its
distribution centers, will start liquidation sales immediately,
and will close all of its stores.
The Canton School
Committee has created a new 12-member subcommittee to study the
problem of non-residents attending Canton schools. The
subcommittee is made up of school administrators, parents,
school committee members and residents.
Stoughton town
officials have asked for state assistance in reopening the
heavily traveled Bay
Road, which has been closed for several months due to
a culvert collapse. They have asked Mass Highway about buying or
borrowing a portable bridge because a more immediate permanent
replacement is estimated to be very costly, and repairs will
take years to complete. The town has applied for $1 million in
state aid to cover the repair cost for the historic old Bay
Road, which is a widely used alternative for residents and
drivers from Stoughton, Sharon, Canton and Easton seeking to
avoid Route 138.
If you have
occasion to drive on
Reynolds Street in Canton, which connects Sherman
Street to Memorial Field, be careful of the new large speed
bumps on the street. They’re the largest MAC has ever seen. The
bumps are intended to slow down CHS student traffic on the
street, where the posted speed limit is 20 mph.
Finally, it
appears that Red Sox
spring training is going to remain in Lee County,
Florida (the county of the city of Fort Myers), but not at the
City of Palms Park where they’ve been since 1992. The Sox have
reached an agreement with the Lee County Commission that will
build them a new stadium, which will be a smaller version of
Fenway Park, complete with a “green monster” along with six
practice fields, all of which could be ready by 2012 at a cost
of about $80 million.
Often the
answer to a question is contained within the question itself.
For example, the question “what can you do?” is easily answered
by simply rearranging the same words: “Do what you can.”
Sometimes, there are easy answers, and they are very often
exactly right.
That this is all for now folks; see you next week.
Joe DeFelice can be reached at
manaboutcanton@aol.com
November 20, 2008
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