Voters will be faced with an unusual number of choices in this year’s state election. In addition to 11 offices on the ballot, not including several uncontested county offices, there are nine ballot questions. That’s a lot
Blue Hills Reservation is a prominent feature of the greater Boston area. The Blue Hills Ski Area and the Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum are hard to miss for anyone traveling on Route 138 near the Canton-Milton border. Less well known is that WGBH, Boston’s public media station, is named for Great Blue Hill […]
Nancy Connery and Judith Stone, 11-year residents of the Orchard Cove senior living community in Canton, enjoy people. For many years, they have used music as a way to connect to others. While it’s a well-known truism that music is the “universal language,” Connery and Stone’s approach is different. Lacking strong musical performance abilities themselves […]
“Adventurous” and “daredevil” are good ways of describing Shirley Horowitz, resident of the Orchard Cove senior living community in Canton. Horowitz is also a storyteller, which is what first riveted fellow resident Ronnie Gold upon meeting Horowitz. Since that first encounter about two years ago, Gold has been fascinated with the vivid stories Horowitz tells […]
Consistent with President Trump’s campaign promises of mass deportation of people who crossed the U.S. border illegally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been ramping up efforts for several months to locate and detain undocumented residents. Often using the pejorative descriptor “illegal aliens,” Trump and other government officials, including DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have […]
Four Canton moms have given new meaning to the “hockey mom” identity. Besides spending time at ice rinks cheering on their offspring, they have taken up the challenge of learning stick handling and puck control. In the process, they have learned a bit about themselves and the sport of hockey and have developed a deeper […]
“We are definitely winding down.” That is what Judge Beverly Cannone said at the close of Tuesday’s trial session in the case of Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Karen Read. She also noted in a discussion with the attorneys that the case would likely be going to the jury this Friday or next Monday at the […]
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 […]
