Friday, May 4, 2012
Carmen Dello Iacono will serve as the Board of Selectmen chair for a second time.
Facing re-election next April, Carmen Dello Iacono renewed his call for the Town of Dedham to produce a yearly report of how the town spends taxpayer money. "lf we just explain what the taxes are and why they are what they are, people will be more comfortable with it," he said in a phone interview. The selectman took over as chair at the board's April 26 meeting, his second term as chairman. Dello Iacono acknowledged that the board has put this on the goals sheet before, but even though it hasn't been done, he said he believes people need to see the justification for the tax rate. "I think that's owed and it isn't unreasonable," he said. Dello Iacono, who first won a seat on the board in 2004, also advocated for open office hours for …
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Dedham Town Hall
26 Bryant St, Dedham, MA
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Town officials and neighbors agreed the department needs a new home, but the trouble is where to put it.
Dozens of residents near St. Mary's Church voiced opposition Wednesday night to the town building a new police station on town-owned land located at what's called the former St. Mary's parking lot. One by one, seniors from O'Neil Drive, current residents around the site, and soon-to-be neighbors of the proposed station agreed that the department needed to move out of its outdated building in Dedham Square, but disagreed that the High Street location was the best one in Dedham. "I know this police department needs a police station. They needed it when they built that building they have now," said neighbor Dominic DeVirgilio. "It was a dilapidated building when they built it." Members of the Building, Planning and Construction Committee …
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Avery Elementary School
336 High St, Dedham, MA
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Building, Planning and Construction Committee pitched the former St. Mary's parking lot as a future home for the police station.
The Building, Planning and Construction Committee pitched the former St. Mary's parking lot, which the town now owns, as the future home of the Dedham Police Department. The lot, about 2 acres in size, includes a wooden area east of the pavement. “We need to make it something that is affordable and reasonable for the town,” said Carmen Dello Iacono, a selectman and member of the BPCC. Dedham Police Chief Michael d'Entremont knew to find a location for a new station, he'd have to move the force out of Dedham Square, but he's pleased with the proposed site, just a few blocks away from the Square. "It’s a little bit outside of the Square, but along a bus route," he said. “I think it is a great location for us. We don’t necessarily need to …
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High St & Mount Vernon St, Dedham, MA
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
With a new facilities director, the Board of Selectmen are pressing for utility cost updates.
The Siemens project to revamp and update several of Dedham's buildings with more energy efficient equipment was pitched to Town Meeting in 2010 as a project that will pay for itself. But as selectmen evaluate the fiscal year 2013 budget, they're still waiting to see the cost savings. "Debt service for that project was going to be funded from reduction in line items," board chairman Jim MacDonald said. Selectmen are asking facilities staff to provided a breakdown of utility use for each building in order to track savings. "I don't have it," said selectman Michael Butler at Thursday's meeting. "I don't know what's happening. I need it. It's sort of counterintuitive to see heat going up in next year's budget versus down." The town's …
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Dedham Town Hall
26 Bryant St, Dedham, MA
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Ziad Greige's plans call for ID'ing every customer.
The Dedham Board of Selectmen approved a liquor license for Ziad Greige and Tedeschi in Oakdale Square during a meeting Thursday evening. Greige pledged to ID every customer that purchases alcohol, a decision hailed by selectmen, and a policy selectman Sarah MacDonald has specifically encouraged stores to adopt since a September 2011 liquor sting caught several stores selling to minors. "We are going to be ID'ing everybody, no matter their age. First for our safety, and second each time we scan, we record everybody buying beer and wine and that will help us with advertisements," Greige said. Greige plans to hire more staff, and provide them with in-person alcohol training before selling alcohol. The license comes way of Wine Gallery, …
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Tedeschi Food Shops
77 Cedar St, Dedham, MA
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Dedham Town Hall
26 Bryant St, Dedham, MA
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A town sub-committee voted the station the town's No. 1 priority to replace.
Dedham Police Department, housed in a station meant for half its current force, should be the next town department to receive a new building, according to Dedham's Building, Planning and Construction Committee. Selectman Carmen Dello Iacono, a member of the committee, said he hoped to break ground on a new station in 2014, after they go to Town Meeting in May 2013. "Five or six years ago, we did an architect study that said it needs to be replaced. That still stands today," Dello Iacono said. "Back then we tried to do a combination [fire and police building], we just don’t’ have a feasible site for it." The building, built in 1962 on the site of Memorial Hall, faces space crunch problems, the lack of locker room facilities for female …
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Town of Dedham Police Department
600 High St, Dedham, MA
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Selectmen want changes to the Dedham Corp. Center station.
It's a recipe ripe for tragedy: dusk, a sharp corner, cars parked in the road and pedestrians. The Board of Selectmen has renewed a call for change at the Dedham Corporate Center MBTA station that would make it safer for commuters to be dropped-off and picked-up on the side of Rustcraft Road. It's a problem mainly in the evening as the 5:40 and 6:14 p.m. trains let off riders and loved ones, idling on the side of the road, wait to bring them home. "Rustcraft Road continuously comes up, and now it is to the point that it is bursting," said selectman Carmen Dello Iacono. "Five o'clock in the afternoon, you can barely get by Rustcraft Road." On a recent evening, the 5:40 p.m. train arrived and five cars, half on the side of the road and half …
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Elm St & Rustcraft Rd, Dedham, MA
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The electronics giant came under fire on Thursday for their handling of large crowds on Black Friday.
Dedham Police Chief Michael d'Entremont and selectmen assailed Best Buy's handling of Black Friday for a lack of personnel on site and the store's inability to control a large crowd anticipating blockbuster deals. "That was the one problem spot for us," the chief said at a selectmen meeting Thursday. D'Entremont described three instances where police resources were called to the scene. The first at 8:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving night for a crowd disturbance, and found no store personnel on scene. The second just a half-hour later for a report of illegal drug use, and a third time at around 12:35 a.m. for another crowd disturbance that brought four cruisers and a police supervisor to assist. "The store personnel did not do a good job managing …
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Best Buy
700 Providence Hwy # 1, Dedham, MA
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Dedham Town Hall
26 Bryant St, Dedham, MA
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Town Meeting members approved a zoning bylaw change that could allow 1000 Washington St. to be developed.
Dedham Town Meeting members approved a zoning bylaw change that could allow for a mixed-use development at 1000 Washington St., currently a long-abandoned gas station often called an eyesore at the gateway of Dedham. The warrant article, put forward by attorney and Town Meeting member Peter Zahka, would allow for subsidary apartments in the Research, Development and Office District (RDO) between the Dedham-Westwood border on Washington Street and Elm Street, and from the Rte. 128 on-ramp to Legacy Boulevard on Providence Highway. Zahka, who proposed a similar article at the May 2011 Town Meeting, amended his article to limit the number of apartments allowed under the new bylaw to 30. "One thousand Washington is one of those key gateways …
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1000 Washington St, Dedham, MA
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
IHOP on Providence Highway was seeking permission to open for 24 hours on the weekend.
Locals will have to find a different late-night spot if they want pancakes and eggs in the wee hours of the morning. The Dedham Board of Selectmen on Thursday narrowly voted against allowing IHOP on Providence Highway to open 12-6 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Selectman Carmen Dello Iacono said he received mixed reviews when he informally polled residents. “Others have come back and said, ‘It’s not the city of Dedham as of yet, so we’d like to stay a town. And the town comes with not having 24-hour operation,’” he said. Appearing with Dedham attorney Peter Zahka, Terrence Case, a vice president for IHOP’s management company, requested an extension of hours to the restaurant’s common victuallers license. If it had been approved, IHOP would’…
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Dedham Town Hall
26 Bryant St, Dedham, MA
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11:31 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
I thought that land was originally purchased for Cemetary use more ›