Did you know … The ninth annual Reebok/Canton Road Race will be held on Saturday, October 5, starting and ending at the Reebok campus off Royal Street in Canton. This year’s race, which has a 7:30 a.m. registration time, will feature a 5k and a 10k; a wheelchair race; a one-mile fun run for children […]
Dear Editor: Canton Little League installed “Boston Strong” banners at all of our fields prior to the start of the season to show Canton’s support for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. During the opening day parade we led our parade with one of these banners. We raised over $1,000 that was donated towards […]
Did you know … There will be a hearing tonight before the Canton Zoning Board of Appeals on a petition by Canton Holdings LLC for a site plan approval for a three-story building with 105 sleeping rooms to be built as an assisted living residence on property located at the former Plymouth Rubber Company parking […]
Did you know … In a very interesting article in the Boston Globe, it was recently quoted that about 96 percent of new vehicles sold in the United States have a “little-known piece of equipment in the innards of a car” — the event data recorder, commonly known as the black box. The recorder captures […]
Sometimes it seems as if there are people in the world who actually have nothing to do all day and all night but think up scams to steal money from complete strangers. Besides being international criminals, these scammers are heartless in the way they target people with highly emotional appeals, which run the gamut from […]
Did you know … For your information, members of the Community Preservation Committee appointed by the Board of Selectmen include Chairman Lisa Lopez Del Vecchio, Vice Chairman Kathy Fox Alfano, Larry Bogue, brothers George and Jeremy Comeau, Bob Golledge, John McSweeney, Bob Panico, and Deb Sundin. Public hearings are slated to begin this fall to […]
As a senior communications consultant with nearly two decades in the public relations field, Canton resident Liza Colburn considers it a must that she believes what her clients are selling. So when Hawaii’s leading solar energy firm, RevoluSun, came calling after expanding to two locations in Massachusetts, Colburn went right to work learning as much […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was written by Canton resident Denny Swenson in honor of her mother, Judi Houghton, who passed away in June following a lengthy battle with cancer. My mum grew up in Braintree, my dad in Quincy. They got married at ages 21 and 23, respectively, which was pretty common in those […]
Did you know … Would you believe that on Monday, August 19, there are three Canton fundraising golf tournaments? We have the first annual Marilyn Rodman Theatre for Kids Golf Tournament at the Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon. For information on this tournament, call Brett Rodman at 508-698-4122. Then there is the second annual […]
An important but little known committee has been meeting lately to discuss a serious issue facing the residents of the commonwealth: the extraordinary amount of debt we are carrying. At the end of last year, Massachusetts was $21.182 billion in debt. According to the 2010 Census data, this works out to $11,309 for every man, […]
