Dear Editor: I am an emergency physician with over 25 years of experience. A yes vote on Question 1 will prevent me from providing safe, quality, and expeditious care for you and your loved ones! This is not about projections of cost or the availability of nurses to meet the proposed ratios. My concern and […]
By Dr. John Tamilio III The church I am proud to serve, the Congregational Church of Canton, has been in the news as of late. Some background to the story is needed. I was invited to deliver the prayer of invocation at the Canton High School Class of 2018 commencement ceremony. The prayer follows: Holy, loving, […]
Dear Editor: Many parents struggle to accept their LGBTQ kids when they first come out. But that is not my family’s story. My son Aiden is 23 years old and he is transgender. That means my husband and I raised him as a girl for two decades until he told us that he was not […]
Dear Editor: More than 80 percent of the American people think that big money in politics is one of the biggest problems affecting our democracy. Control of our political and legal systems by big money interests must be eliminated if we want to see significant progress on the critical issues that our country faces. This […]
By Emilio E. Mauro, Jr. The Master Plan Steering Committee, of which I am a member, is currently working on a vision for our town, which includes transportation matters. In this guest column, I will share my personal views for the future of State Route 138 (SR-138). The traffic on SR-138 and the uncontrolled traffic […]
By Laura Smead, AICP, Canton Town Planner One of my biggest jobs as town planner is to assist in both the development and implementation of Canton’s Master Plan. Sometimes these plans are labeled “comprehensive” or “general,” but they all mean the same thing: putting down on paper the hopes and dreams a community holds for […]
By Harriet Burak, CAASA member Today it has become very common for young girls to have their ears pierced. In some cultures even, many baby girls have their ears pierced before they are old enough to walk. Not so in my case. I was in my late 30s, and a mother of three, before I […]
By Nancy Pando There is no horizon when you are crawling through a tunnel. You put your head down and you keep going because word has it, a light could appear. After Jaime and Bill’s loss, it was a relief to hear that their prenatal tests were just fine. This would be our third grandchild […]
The following selection, by Tricia Kendall, was the winning entry (tie) in the adult nonfiction/memoir category in the 2018 Canton Writes contest. The Citizen, a sponsor of the contest, is publishing each of the winning entries throughout the summer as space permits. It’s April 22, 1994. My thumb, burnt from the heat of the lighter, […]
By Bernard Mendillo Mark Lague is like a rare book nestled in the library he loves. Unlike most Americans, who typically have four or five distinct careers in a lifetime, Mark set his mind to be a librarian and never looked back. “It’s been a 40-year career that I wouldn’t change for anything in the […]
