Canton residents Pat and Steve Cohen spent the evening of April 27 with two of their grandchildren at a New England Revolution game against the team from Pat’s hometown, the Philadelphia Union. The Cohens had attended the game as the guests of Revolution owner Robert Kraft, who wanted to thank them and other Boston Athletic Association [...]
Twenty-five years ago, while finishing up a business degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Meredith Linsky made the conscious decision to follow her interests and set out on a “path less traveled.” Young and idealistic with a passion for social justice, Linsky figured that she would never be rich and might not always be [...]
As the chief of medical oncology and hematology at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Dr. Karim Malek knows firsthand how precious and fragile life can be. It’s the reason that he follows his passions and is constantly seeking out new adventures, whether it be learning to fly an airplane or scuba diving with sharks [...]
On March 3, 1913, the annual town meeting voted down an article that would have authorized the Board of Health to appoint an inspector of milk. Fifty-five days later, the Canton milk epidemic struck. One hundred years ago the town of Canton looked very different than it does today. There was certainly a sense of [...]
Over 900 men and women came to Canton two weeks ago to see a rare display of one of our country’s greatest handmade treasures. This particular piece of handcraft has been a part of Canton’s history for over 225 years. Martha Crafts was very particular, and most especially in her needlework. The second child of [...]
Sharon resident Kathleen Banfield has many years of experience as both an educator and a gardener. And beginning this spring, thanks to the generous support of the Paul R. Matthews Foundation, Banfield will combine these two aspects of her background to create the Canton Family Garden at Pequitside Farm — a place where local children [...]
This coming Saturday, March 9, a group of firefighters and police officers from Canton and surrounding towns will take to the ice with heavy hearts as they skate in memory of a fallen brother, CPD Officer Ralph Centeno, in the fifth annual Canton Fire/Police Charity Hockey Benefit at Metropolis Rink. This year’s event will feature [...]
Dan Cummings enjoyed playing sports as he grew up in Hyde Park, especially football and baseball. He played defensive tackle and was on the kick return team at Xaverian Brothers High School, which won the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl in 1998. On June 24, 2000, Cummings went to a lake with some friends. “It [...]
In March 2011, Pete Sutton wrote the following about his chosen profession in a blog post entitled “Why I Take Pictures.” “Photographs are time capsules, portals to the past,” wrote the Canton father of four and owner of Pete Sutton Fine Art. “They document brief moments, but can speak volumes. “Want to know what is important [...]
When it was built, it was the largest public structure in Canton. A grand memorial to the men of the Civil War, we named it Memorial Hall. All across America the soldiers who fought in the War Between the States were beginning to pass away, and for the great masses of men who fought, there [...]
