The Canton Citizen is pleased to announce the debut of “Outside the Whale,” a bold new column by Tanya Willow that seeks to challenge conventional thinking with a mix of social satire and political commentary. As general manager for Canton Community Television, Willow has been an observer of Canton politics for over 25 years. She […]
Writers have more places to express themselves today than in all history — from online newspapers to blogs. But with all the opportunity and formats to express ideas, and with our country and with local communities like Canton facing so many problems, why is the writing so banal? Online columns read like personal diary entries, […]
DID YOU KNOW … The main sticking point in the Canton school teachers’ contract negotiations with the School Committee is the proposed restructuring of the salary scale that would double the number of years (from 12 to 24) that a teacher would have to complete in order to reach the top of the pay scale. […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton DJ Gary Titus was recently featured in the “Inside Track” of the Boston Herald in a story detailing the decline of the summer weekend Cape Cod happy hours. A picture of Gary taken at Pufferbellies in Hyannis in the 1980s shows him smiling as he held court over a raucous happy […]
The day we brought Snoopy home from the animal shelter was memorable for all the wrong reasons. After years of hearing our two girls constantly harangue us with, “Please can we get a dog, please, please, please can we get a dog, please we’ll take care of it please!?” I finally gave in because Mariel […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton’s own Jim Carmichael is a U.S. Air Force Captain flying B-52 stratofortress bombers stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Most of us who read the Canton Citizen know that a flood recently inundated his home in North Dakota. His home was under water for weeks, and everything […]
Thirty-six years ago, Steve and I sat on a swing set in an Indiana campground, discussing the impossibility of getting married. Actually, I was the one talking impossible — Steve was trying to convince me of the possible. All I saw was us living on opposite sides of the ocean enmeshed in families and jobs […]
A woman from Canton came in looking for advice. She’d bought a condo in 2008 and was living there happily, but seeing the deals that her friends were getting on nicer properties, she wanted to trade up. She could easily afford the mortgage on the properties she liked. All she had to do was sell […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton has missed the boat on the local option meal tax. The recent town meeting voted against the additional .75 percent tax, which would have been added to restaurant bills on top of the 6.25 percent state sales tax. In the past year, Stoughton collected just over $350,000; Walpole collected $290,000; […]
Note: The letter below references a recent hearing held on the Patrick administration’s proposed ban on skin shocks, a practice currently employed at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The proposed ban is nearly identical to the budget amendment advanced by Senator Brian Joyce that was defeated by House members during recent conference committee debates. […]
