By Michael G. Bellotti and John J. Larivee Imagine walking out of jail with nothing except a change of clothes and no money in your pocket. You want to apply for a job, but can’t because you don’t have a driver’s license, photo ID, or even a Social Security card. You head to the Registry […]
One day during the month of March, on a busy street in the rear yard of a Canton resident, while a blizzard was in full bloom, there was a loud crack outside. A look out of the den window showed where and what the noise came from. A large pine tree had fallen to the […]
To the Editor: Tonight, I will attend my last meeting as a proud member of the Canton School Committee. To that end, I give my heart-felt thanks to all the citizens of Canton who saw fit to first elect me to the committee in 2002, and for the many terms and years that have followed. […]
Dear Editor: Members of No Canton Gas Pipeline: toward an equitable, sustainable future, Tammy Rose, Liza Colburn, Christine Smith and Jennifer Wexler and Canton High School seniors Kate Devine, Matt Floyd, and Julia Quinn met with Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Henderson on Tuesday, January 30, to discuss the current status, needs, barriers to, and future of climate education […]
The following letter is in response to state Rep. Bill Galvin’s recent guest column in the Canton Citizen concerning his support for the Safe Communities Act. Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in most Massachusetts communities regularly exchange information about persons held in custody for crimes with the federal authorities, including the FBI and Immigration and Customs […]
In the biggest game this side of the Patriots vs. the Steelers, the Canton Squirt Black hockey team recently faced off against perennial powerhouse Hingham in a battle for league supremacy and prevailed 4-3 in a hockey game for the ages. Both teams came out flying with Hingham pressing the action early, but Canton struck […]
By State Rep. Bill Galvin We are fortunate to live in a country that guarantees numerous freedoms, including freedom of religion, speech, property, and protection against arrest without cause. If we do run into trouble with the law, we are also assured the right to legal counsel, to be informed of the charges, and to […]
The long-awaited school renovation project at Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton took a critical step forward on November 13, announced Superintendent James Quaglia. As of that date, all of the school’s nine district towns, including Canton
By Police Chief Ken Berkowitz After reading MAC’s quick blurb in last week’s paper regarding the results of the FBI’s 2016 Uniform Crime Report, and in an effort to help MAC and the readers understand why, on its own, it is not a true metric to measure crime in our community, I felt compelled to […]
By Vik Solem, president of MEI Security October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and fresh in our minds is the Equifax breach. Back on September 7, more than a month after their failure, Equifax admitted publicly that their security was compromised, exposing the personal information of 143,000,000 U.S. consumers. While this is not the […]
