CANTON – Selectmen set a public hearing to vote on closing Canton Elementary School for 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at the Municipal Center.
There will be a referendum vote on the issue from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Municipal Center. Absentee ballots will be available.
If the town votes to keep the school open, it will have to have students attend and there would be a cost to the town of $73,000 per year over and above what the town pays the school district.
If the vote is to close the school, students will be attending Peru Elementary next year and until the new district elementary school is built. For at least 75 years, Canton students have attended Canton Elementary.
Towns all along the river are asked to give $50 per mile of shoreline they have on the river and Canton has 8 miles. The town is looking for volunteers to help. The project is aimed at getting communities to work together to clean up the river.
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