Patrick-Murray Administration Approves Waste Management Economic Development Project

Project will create 10 new full-time jobs and retain 130 full-time jobs in the Commonwealth.

The Economic Assistance Coordinating Council today approved 17 projects for participation in the Economic Development Incentive Program including Waste Management in Norton. The projects are expected to create 1,341 new jobs and retain 4,099 existing jobs, in addition to leveraging over $417 million in private investment and supporting construction projects across the Commonwealth. Among the 17 approved projects there are seven manufacturing companies and six projects located in Gateway Cities. The EDIP program helps reduce the cost of business for these companies, which is one of the five main focuses of the Patrick-Murray Administration’s long-term economic development plan. For calendar year 2012, the Economic Assistance Coordinating …

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Selectmen to Vote on Waste Management TIF Agreement at Meeting

Water/Sewer Commission to also meet.

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Voters Approve Solmonese Roof, TIF, Reject Pheeny's Island Purchase

Island purchase outvoted 106-108.

With over 200 Norton residents present at the annual Town Meeting, voters approved funds for the J. C. Solmonese Elementary School roof, Town Hall repairs, tax increment financing for Waste Management and voted down the purchase of Pheeny’s Island. Article 22 asked the town to spend $149,900 in free cash to purchase the 9.17-acre property known as Pheeny’s Island. The island is one of two that are not currently owned by the town. Businessman Kenneth Leavitt recently expressed interest in purchasing the island, and to build a ropes course there. Friends of Pheeny’s Island, a group dedicated to the conservation of the land, hoped to obtain the land and stop the business from being built there. The vote to acquire Pheeny’s Island by eminent …

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Waste Management TIF, Purchase of Pheeny's Island to be Voted on at Town Meeting

List of warrant articles for meeting.

UPDATE: Town Meeting originally scheduled for tonight, Oct. 29, has been postponed until Thursday, Nov. 1. The time and place will remain 7 p.m. at Norton Middle School. The Town Hall will also close at noon.

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John Francis

8:17 am on Monday, October 29, 2012

Town Meeting has been cancelled for tonight and rescheduled to Thursday Nov. 1. John Francis   more ›

Selectmen Back Tax Break for Terminal

Waste Management to receive $500,000 in tax increment financing.

Norton, Taunton at Odds over Waste Management Project

Road use at depot causing issue.

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Message To Taunton: Knock It Off!

City has to be kidding with latest comments about Norton traffic.

Taunton has some complaints about its neighbor to the north. As someone originally from the Silver City, but a resident of Norton since the age of 2, I’d like to say something to the city of my birth: You have GOT to be kidding! City officials are concerned about traffic from new Norton businesses planning to locate in the Norton Commerce Center near the Taunton line. The mayor and some city councilors worry that trucks from a new Waste Management depot on Hill Street and Horizon Beverage taking over the old GM building will damage roads in the Myles Standish Industrial Park. Mayor Crowley questioned Norton-generated traffic causing roads to deteriorate without providing any funding, and Councilor Deborah Carr suggested banning trucks on …

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