Commercials pushing products with scare tactics always make me skeptical. So a recent radio commercial for a monthly-fee service offering to protect homeowners from home title fraud got my attention. While other kinds of scams and frauds are all too common, no one seemed to be talking about home title fraud. So I decided to […]
Canton High School students and staff showed off their musical and dance abilities in a virtual talent show that was streamed on Friday, January 22. See this week’s Canton Citizen for more talent show photos courtesy of Kylee Sheehan.
A new playground at the Luce School, renovations to the exterior of Town Hall, and a proposed new affordable housing trust will all be in line for some level of Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding in the coming fiscal year after receiving the go-ahead from the town’s Community Preservation Committee earlier this month. Six other […]
With a recent rise in positive COVID cases, School Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Fischer-Mueller announced a temporary shift to remote-only learning for select classes at each of the three elementary schools. Most, if not all of the impacted classes should be back to hybrid learning by next week. At the John F. Kennedy School, one grade […]
Check out this week’s issue of the Citizen for the latest in Canton news, sports, events, and more. Highlights from the January 28 edition include: * Town Hall repairs, Luce playground headline CPA projects for FY22 (click here for excerpt) * Beloved children’s library assistant steps down after 36 years * Canton’s got talent: Photos from […]
The Canton High School varsity gymnastics team celebrated its first win of the 2021 season with a seven-point victory over Sharon last week (123-116). Co-head coach Jenn Abbott said many factors contributed to Canton’s win over the Eagles and their point total of 123 was the team’s highest so far this season—besting their previous season […]
Henry F. Robinson of Canton passed away January 26 at South Shore Hospital. Born and raised in Dorchester, he graduated from Dorchester High School and was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was an electrician and member of the IBEW Local 103 for many years before retiring in 1987. Henry has lived in […]
Grace Elizabeth (Edwards) Thompson, 96, formerly of Canton and most recently of Hollywood, Florida, passed away January 10, 2021 at South Memorial Hospital in Hollywood after a short illness. She was born in 1924 and raised in western Pennsylvania in Crown and then Emlenton, PA. She graduated from Emlenton High School and then worked shortly […]
It was an emotional and uplifting end to the week for residents and staff at Orchard Cove and Hellenic Nursing & Rehab — two of Canton’s hardest hit communities in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Last Thursday at the Hellenic and Friday at Orchard Cove, hundreds received their first dose of the COVID-19 […]
When big things happen in a small town the news can rush like wildfire. Tongues wag fast and the allure of a big crime story can be fodder for the newspapers for weeks. In the summer of 1906, big news literally exploded in Ponkapoag in what can only be described as a brazen robbery that […]
