Private First Class (PFC) Richard Wesley Brown was only 20 years old when he died in France during World War II, one of the thousands of American soldiers killed in Normandy during the D-Day invasions. Canton resident Marie Schuhmacher, his only sibling, does not have any memories of her brother. In letters Brown wrote to […]
This coming Saturday at the fourth annual Canton Heritage Festival, representatives from Canton’s Edward J. Beatty American Legion Post 24 will be on site at the Community Tent to remind visitors that “a lot of good starts with a little swab.” Such is the message of the post’s newest community initiative — a bone marrow […]
Working with the Trump administration, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff have made significant cuts to funding and staffing of various government offices and agencies. Just four days after the inauguration, USAID was one of the first to come under the knife. The organization has been the primary administrator of civilian […]
New parents Nahtoreya Coleman and Nathan Ellison of Attleboro are, in most ways, like new parents everywhere. Happy and proud of their newborn son, they are learning to cope with the hour-to-hour needs of a tiny baby who wants his bottles served up quickly and is quite capable of expressing disapproval if there are delays. […]
Meg Goldstein, Canton’s new director of public health, has been on the job for about three months. Hired by the Board of Health with the idea that she would beef up outreach efforts, Goldstein has been taking that assignment seriously since assuming the role in mid-November. Already very familiar with the office from her previous […]
What happens when a trio of superhero sugar cookies work together to make the world a sweeter place? Chris and Stephanie Sabatino know the answer. The couple has created a superhero comic book for children using their own super talents. Their new book The Delicious Adventures of the Super Cookie Squad combines Chris’ talents as […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on July 23, 2020 and was reprinted last month following the inauguration of Donald Trump. History takes a very long view of conflicts, and as divided as the country is today, this is not the first time that deep divisions split our society. Of course, the Civil War […]
Residents of Canton are grief stricken and utterly heartsick over the tragic deaths of two local women, Ciara (Lambkin) Sullivan and Della (Mannion) Larsen, who passed away recently within days of each other due to medical complications. Sullivan, a 2012 CHS graduate, died just two days after Christmas alongside her newborn twins, who had been […]
One night in the summer of 2014 before she started seventh grade at the Galvin Middle School, Olivia Chambers walked outside to ask her older brother a question. He was adding citronella oil to a tabletop firepot and it unexpectedly burst into flames as Chambers drew near. Her brother pushed her away and smothered the […]
When Mike Mariano was a seventh grader at the Galvin Middle School, he joined his classmates for a field trip to Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. Once there, he ran to the top of the mountain and was the first in the class to get there. “I thought it was a race,” he said. Exhausted, […]
