DID YOU KNOW … Congratulations to the Blue Hills Regional School football team (12-1), which won the Division 4A Super Bowl with a very controversial 16-14 win over Cathedral High School (11-1). Blue Hills was led by Junior Vincent Burton, who finished with 152 rushing yards on 37 carries with one touchdown and a pair […]
Holidays are funny things. Thanks to our Norman Rockwell-Hallmark state of mind, we expect that they will be all American perfection complete with abundant food, well-behaved children, and gifts that we’ve always longed for. No one argues; no one is cranky or dissatisfied or sad. We create a minefield of disillusionment for ourselves. Every year […]
All the pre-holiday heavy emphasis on buying-buying-buying got me thinking about a gift people can give themselves and their families — something precious, rare, and very, very valuable. Being debt-free. Does that mean being some sort of Grinch and not buying any gifts? Does that mean never using credit cards again and always paying cash? […]
DID YOU KNOW … Social Security recipients will get a cost-of-living adjustment of 3.6 percent in January 2012, their first increase in three years. Some of the increase will be lost to higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments. According to federal officials, most Medicare beneficiaries will pay $99.20 a month in […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton will face Stoughton in the classic Thanksgiving Day matchup tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Memorial Field in Canton. Each year, MAC publishes some facts, records, and trivia from the Canton-Stoughton rivalry that started in 1926. So here we go for this year: The Canton-Stoughton rivalry is 85 years of football […]
Dear Editor: On November 6, Temple Beth Abraham hosted the 23rd running of the Canton Fall Classic, attracting nearly 600 sign-ups for the 10K, 5K and the kids’ one-mile fun run. This year was particularly challenging as we postponed the race from the week before due to snow. We thank Police Chief Ken Berkowitz for […]
DID YOU KNOW … One month after Bank of America got pummeled by consumers and politicians for introducing plans to charge $5 per month for debit card use, they have now done a complete u-turn and scrapped plans to charge customers. The company said it was responding to customer feedback and a competitive marketplace. Many […]
A couple of weeks ago I was at the Department of Education in Malden doing a STAR reading training when I heard my phone ring. I checked to see who was calling, since I was expecting a call from my assistant telling me that my GED school was on fire. Thankfully, it turned out to […]
Earlier this season, the Citizen highlighted some of the top female athletes from Canton who have made a name for themselves in their respective college programs. However, it’s not just the local ladies who are having success in their post-high school careers. A number of the town’s male athletes are also getting it done on […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton state Representative Bill Galvin recently held his re-election kickoff campaign fundraiser at the Chinatown restaurant in Stoughton. Galvin, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Personnel and Administration, had many high-profile Democrats in attendance, including Congressman Bill Keating, Massachusetts House Speaker Bob DeLeo, Stoughton Representative Lou Kafka, and […]
