Nearly three months have passed since Canton town meeting voters threw their unanimous support behind a proposed takeover of Ponkapoag Golf Course, yet the plan remains in limbo as selectmen continue to await an answer from the course’s current owner — the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation. Ponkapoag, or “Ponky” as it is known […]
After holding moving recognition ceremonies for the surviving veterans of World War Two and the Korean War, Canton Veterans’ Agent Tony Andreotti is now planning a similar event on September 11 for the veterans of the Vietnam Era. Scheduled for 3 p.m. at the high school football field, the ceremony will honor anyone from Canton […]
A full three weeks have passed since Canton native James Carmichael was forced to evacuate his home in Minot, North Dakota due to a devastating flood, and as of Sunday he was still under evacuation orders and his house was still sitting in several feet of water. The late June flood, caused by heavy spring […]
Concerned with the town’s recent inability to broker agreements with real estate developers, Canton planners George Jenkins and Jeremy Comeau have proposed a set of upcoming workshops aimed at resolving key differences and establishing a workable vision for the town’s future. At the Planning Board meeting last Wednesday, both Jenkins and Comeau tossed around a […]
For the third time in the past five years, a proposed budget amendment authored by state Senator Brian A. Joyce that sought to end the use of electric skin shocks as a treatment option in Massachusetts met its end in a conference committee after House members refused to go along with the idea. But the […]
Editor’s note: Below is the second in a series of articles examining the Judge Rotenberg Center without its founder, Matthew Israel, who stepped down from the school effective June 1. The first story, which appeared in the Citizen on June 9, dealt with Senator Joyce’s ongoing efforts to ban shock therapy, while the story below […]
Canton Academy, the popular summer enrichment program offered by the Canton Public Schools, is now officially underway, and it is not too late to enroll for an upcoming session, according to program director Ed Amico. Offering a wide variety of fun and exciting courses geared toward students in grades K-5, this year’s program also includes […]
Following a two-year hiatus, Canton’s annual July 4th celebration and gala fireworks display — a popular tradition going back more than 30 years — will make its comeback this coming Monday, July 4, beginning at 5 p.m. The one big change with this year’s celebration is the venue, as organizers opted to move it from […]
It’s a feeling that residents of Canton can only partially relate to — that overwhelming sense of uncertainty and dread that comes with the threat of an impending natural disaster. They felt it on June 1, when a series of tornadoes touched down across the western part of the state, and for a few brief […]
When Canton school superintendent Jeff Granatino announced the selection of Peter Boucher as the new interim principal of the Hansen Elementary School, everyone was thrilled but almost no one was surprised. With a list of initiatives and accomplishments that stretches a mile long, Boucher has done nothing but impress in the three short years he […]
