The following essay was written by Lindsey Nolte, a Canton High School senior and a goalie for the girls varsity ice hockey team. My stomach was empty, my eyes were heavy, and I fret having to return to this place again. My family silently waited in our SUV packed full of equipment for the traffic […]
Dear Editor: Our town is now front and center in the current debate about how the commonwealth will meet its energy needs for the future. A Texas-based corporation, Spectra Energy, has proposed sending gas, pressurized to 750 pounds per square inch, through underground pipes measuring up to 48 inches in diameter. This pipeline will run […]
Editor’s Note: The following letter addresses the proposal by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to permit shotgun deer hunting in the Blue Hills Reservation in an effort to cull the deer population, which is currently estimated at 85 per square mile. Click here for a copy of the draft deer management plan. […]
Canton Youth Soccer’s girls U12 United team completed one of the most successful seasons in CYS history this spring. After a slow start to the season with two wins and two loses, the team was undefeated for the remainder of the regular season. After winning their BAYS section championship, the girls claimed the BAYS division […]
On Sunday, August 16, more than 12,000 runners will line up in Woods Hole for the start of the 43rd annual Falmouth Road Race. This seven-mile race is quite the obstacle, requiring strength and endurance from
Boston GAA football and hurling matches are held every Saturday and Sunday at the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton, located at 200 New Boston Drive (off Route 138). For results, reports and schedules, check out www.bostongaa.com. By Rory O’Donnell The July 4th holiday weekend saw three Gaelic football games contested as the Men’s Senior Football […]
By Mark Dantos Phyllis Seresky, a longtime Canton resident, was one of those patients who made a lasting impression on the medical oncology unit at Massachusetts General Hospital through the final months of her life in 2014. The medical oncologists, oncology nurses, therapists and caregivers on the ninth floor of the Lunder Building at Mass. General […]
The Canton Citizen, a sponsor of the annual Canton Writes contest, will once again publish the winning entries as space permits. This week’s entry by Ellen Efstathiou was selected as the winner in the Middle School Prose category and also garnered the Best in Show award. Amber’s Wait Where was that handkerchief? It had been […]
Kyle Burke of Canton, a sophomore at Boston College High School, who played centerfielder and batted .500 on the 18-2 JV baseball team, had the honor of representing the BC High baseball team at the ground breaking of Monan Park, a new shared community baseball complex on the campus of BC High in Dorchester on […]
Dear Editor: Now that winter is behind us and summer has arrived, a storm cloud brews over the beautiful pond that locals call the Rez. The Canton Reservoir is a public, town-owned, 300-acre body of water that has about 40 residents along its borders and municipal and state land along the western shore. Today the […]
