Dale Rushworth, the principal clerk at the Canton Senior Center, is retiring tomorrow. She spent 22 years running the office at the Senior Center and handling the organization of transportation that allows seniors to enjoy an excursion or to pick up some groceries. “I loved my job, I loved the people, I loved working with […]
The story below appears in the Citizen’s 29th annual Salute to the Fine Arts, an 8-page special section included with this week’s print edition. This spring, CHS band/orchestra leader and music instructor Brian Thomas coordinated a day of special musical activities that memorably illustrated the power that music has to bring people together and break […]
On Pleasant Street there is a granite marker that is the dividing line between Canton and Stoughton. At 8 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, August 28, 1948, three Canton selectmen stood in the heat and haze of the morning sun. Selectman Maurice Ronayne shifted as he kicked up dust from the road. Selectman John […]
The seeds of a woman’s right to vote were sown in many places across New England. In Canton, they began at the stately home of Congressman Elijah Morse. As Mary Livermore alighted from her carriage on Washington Street, she looked over the ground of the mansion Morse had built. Morse was extremely wealthy and drew […]
The spread of the COVID-19 virus has led to extreme changes in daily life. Schools and many businesses are closed; social distancing mandates are the new norm; and people are being told not to go to hospitals unless they need immediate medical care. Regular medical care, however, is something that pregnant women need; when the time […]
On a quiet Sunday afternoon the sounds of Brahms would lift through the lazy air and people would gather on the sidewalk to listen. The music flowing from the small house at 847 Washington Street was indescribably beautiful. Inside the house Ms. Lillian Shattuck held the attention of her assembled guests. For anyone who heard […]
Justin Luk was at home with his family observing the shelter in place advisory due to COVID-19, when his phone lit up on a Sunday evening with a call from Tara Shuman. “She called me and asked me if I was interested in doing something useful with the 3-D printer from the library,” he said. Luk, […]
He devoted nearly 20 years of his life to protecting and promoting the health of Canton’s residents, but in the midst of the most severe public health crisis in over a century, John Ciccotelli, the town’s longtime health director and by all accounts a picture of quiet strength, had physically nothing left to give. After […]
It has been hard to write about historical times in Canton’s history. My editor kept poking me to get back to it, and I have thus far resisted. Well, until now. I think it has been particularly difficult because it feels like we are indeed living in a history of our own. And, as yet […]
Duncan MacLeod loved listening to his wife, Marilyn, sing his favorite songs, including “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Just Do Do Do What You’ve Done Done Done Before,” and “The Sound of Music.” Marilyn passed away in 2018, but their daughter Bonnie serenaded her father with those musical memories on Sunday, February 23, during a ceremony at Cornerstone at Canton […]
