None other than Boston’s own four-time marathon winner Bill Rodgers joined Orchard Cove residents to celebrate the completion of their recent personal marathons for the senior living community’s Miles for Scholarship event.
Imagine spending the morning hiking through the woods in the 7,000-acre DCR Blue Hills Reservation, having lunch in the cool shade of large, mature pine trees, and then coming back to kayak on beautiful, unspoiled 230-acre Ponkapoag Pond. Then you sit back and take in the unforgettable sunset across the pond. With both cabins and tent […]
Water quality grades are out for the Neponset River and its tributaries, and the results are somewhat mixed, with the bulk of sites tested earning an overall grade of B or better but nearly half of them falling below that mark for compliance with swimming standards. Part of a joint reporting effort between the Neponset, […]
So far, 2026 has been a very “unlikely” year for one group of area musicians: the Unlikely Strummers, an award-winning ukulele band featuring amateur players from across southern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. The group, directed by Canton resident Cynthia Miller, is featured in the just-released issue of Ukulele Magazine, an industry publication for ukulele […]
It took 30 years of active campaigning, including a long-running, self-financed website and an untold number of phone calls, emails, and social media posts, but on one magical night at Fenway Park last week, Gary Titus’s wish finally came true as he witnessed the enshrinement of his longtime friend, the late Sherm Feller, into the […]
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) became a part of the Canton community in the fall of 1966 when Canton residents Truly Boufides, Pat Malloy, Peggy Hehir, Lee Malone, and Sheila Galligan founded the association’s Canton branch. The five women were busy raising their children but felt the need for intellectual stimulation and adult […]
By Brad Cole “I had what you might call a happy childhood, up until March 1938 when Hitler marched into Austria,” Orchard Cove resident Edith Bard said. “I was 14 years old at the time, and two months later, I was no longer allowed to attend public schools with Christian children.” Bard described the months […]
Nancy Connery and Judith Stone, 11-year residents of the Orchard Cove senior living community in Canton, enjoy people. For many years, they have used music as a way to connect to others. While it’s a well-known truism that music is the “universal language,” Connery and Stone’s approach is different. Lacking strong musical performance abilities themselves […]
By Darcie Fisher Tami Olsen was not one of those students who knew that she wanted to spend her career in a classroom. It wasn’t until she was in college at Salve Regina University that she realized she wanted to teach. “I knew I always wanted to work with the public,” said Olsen. “I took […]
The Canton Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee held its annual Black History Month celebration last week in the CHS library. The reflection below is by CDEI Chair Naomi Akan. In 1926, historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week to address a glaring omission: Black Americans were largely absent from the nation’s history books. […]
