Dear Editor: The Blue Hills Reservation is a 7,000-acre green oasis in an urban and suburban environment less than three miles from my house. Within those hills is the Blue Hills Trailside Museum and the Blue Hill Weather Observatory and Science Center, a National Historic Landmark — places visited by more than 200,000 residents annually. […]
The Canton Citizen, a sponsor of the annual Canton Writes contest, will once again publish the winning entries as space permits. The selection below, by Lucien Brodeur, was the winning entry in the adult short story category and was also named Best in Show for 2016. Aftertext By Lucien Brodeur It was after football practice, […]
Editor’s note: The following is an update from Nancy Cahillane Connor, a Canton native and Galvin Middle School educational assistant who volunteered to donate a kidney to her nephew’s mother-in-law. Connor, who was profiled in the May 12 edition of the Citizen, underwent successful transplant surgery on June 1 at St. Barnabus Medical Center (NJ) […]
The following was written by CHS sophomore Amanda Romano for her Journalism & Publishing class. Final exams began this week and will continue until Tuesday, June 21. You’ve heard of being sent to hell and solitary confinement. Now be prepared to be sent to the last week of high school — finals week. Teachers cram an […]
When Paula Kavolius sought programming for her developmentally disabled son, she couldn’t find any. So armed with passion and determination, she corralled friends and acquaintances, raised funds, and created House of Possibilities (HOPe), a home-like setting on the grounds of Stonehill College in Easton. Since 2009, HOPe has been providing top quality care and exceptional […]
By Judy Bass When NASA astronaut Scott D. Tingle goes up into the heavens aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017, he will be traveling with a very special and unique item symbolizing his former high school, Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton. Students in the school’s Engineering program, under the direction of […]
Editor’s note: The full-day kindergarten program referenced in this letter was approved by voters at annual town meeting on Wednesday, May 11. Dear fellow citizens: Full-day kindergarten has become an essential foundation for a child’s education and needs to be free for every student. Canton charges tuition and is well behind the rest of the state in […]
Dear Editor: I attended the March 23 Conservation Commission hearing and learned that all the trees on the former Plymouth Rubber site along Neponset and Revere streets along the Canton River/East Branch of the Neponset River are slated to be cut down, stumps removed, and all vegetation removed, in a poorly planned attempt by the […]
By Paul A. Schneiders, attorney for Canton Holdings, LLC Almost 250 years ago Paul Revere made his famous ride to Concord to warn that the British were coming. Twenty-five years later he rode out to Canton to construct North America’s very first copper mill on a 35-acre site on what is now Revere Street. At […]
The Canton Community Problem Solving Team BRIDGES recently completed its fifth oral history interview of senior citizens in Canton. Galvin Middle School students Bella Botelho, Mary Kelley, and Carly LaFrance along with Hansen Elementary fifth grader Emily Kelley have been at it since last October. BRIDGES stands for “Building Relationships in Diverse Generations Entails Sharing” […]
