CANTON — Selectmen will conduct an executive session on a legal matter at the start of their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9, in the Town Office. Among the new business items on the agenda is Fire Chief Shane Gallant. He is expected to ask about buying a firetruck with money from the […]
Town Clerk Kathy Walker
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton Town Office hosts open house
CANTON — Now that the new sign for the Town Office has been installed, staff will host an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 18. Light refreshments will be provided. “We were just waiting on the sign,” Town Clerk Kathy Walker said Wednesday afternoon. The new Town Office at 94 Turner […]
advertisement
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton tax rate to drop after town meeting
CANTON — Town meeting voters will pay less in taxes this year, thanks to a proposed municipal budget that came in lower than last year’s budget and a reduction in the school assessment, Administrator Scotty Kilbreth said Wednesday afternoon. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. A 14-question referendum election will […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton board gets road reports, remembers ‘Dad’ Vashaw
CANTON — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to schedule a meeting with Hartford selectmen in Hartford to resolve a road-plowing matter. They also got an update on the final cost of the Staples Hill Road project and shared memories and a moment of silence for longtime Canton resident Norman Vashaw, 88, who passed away May 10 […]
Posted inFranklin, River Valley
Lack of quorum cancels Canton board meeting
CANTON — Selectmen were supposed to meet Thursday night in the Fire Station for their regular bi-monthly meeting. However, because of the lack of a quorum, it was canceled, Town Clerk Kathy Walker said Thursday afternoon.
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton board fields pitch to restore order to its records
CANTON — Selectmen acknowledged last week that town records from the 1800s to present are not stored properly, but took no action following a presentation by Massachusetts-based records management corporation. Lindsay J. Eisan Jr. of King Information Systems Inc. in Norwood, Mass., said the business has specialized in this type of work for 40 years and […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton board sets election, meeting dates
CANTON — Selectmen voted unanimously Thursday night to set the annual town elections for Tuesday, June 9. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the back of the new Town Office. The town meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at a place to be determined. Selectman Brian Keene […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton Fire Department recognized for quick response after snowmobile accident
CANTON — A Med-Care Ambulance official commended the Fire Department on Thursday night for its efforts Jan. 30 to rescue a seriously injured snowmobiler during a snowstorm. In the incident, Doug Kubesh, 48, of Dixfield, suffered multiple injuries after being ejected from his snowmobile and run over by one driven by his son in a cornfield […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Canton officials find town’s long-lost historical documents
CANTON — While packaging town books, documents and equipment in boxes to move them into Canton’s new Town Office on Route 108, town officials discovered several long-lost historical items. Administrator Scotty Kilbreth, a selectman in the 1980s, and Selectman Brian Keene rediscovered the find Wednesday night that Keene and Selectman Robert Walker Jr. found last […]