Monday is one of those “half holidays,” meaning that half of us get the day off and half of us work. Hardly anyone can fully explain the holiday today — Marathon Monday, Patriot’s Day, or the day when one is absolutely certain that the Red Sox will be playing at home. Patriot’s Day commemorates the […]
Starting in March 2002 with You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the Canton Community Theatre has been bringing the joy of live theatre to thousands of local audience members. In 10 years, the CCT has given hundreds of Canton citizens the opportunity to perform in shows, from summer spectaculars with casts ranging in age from […]
Orthodontists Dr. Robert Chavez and Dr. Andrew Chase offer their patients OrthoReward points toward prizes for doing good deeds in the community. But it’s not the points that drive most people to help others. One of their
When third grade teacher Jennifer Barucci put a drop of vinegar on a rock to see if it would fizz, all her students’ eyes were focused on the demonstration; fingers pointed, and oohs and ahhs escaped as bubbles formed.
The Revere Barn is one of Canton’s most historic buildings and one of America’s most endangered historic sites. In this week’s installment of True Tales, town historian George Comeau makes his case for the Community Preservation Act.
On the morning of last month’s big celebration and fundraiser that her friends and family had planned in her honor, Jean Sicard Kelleher suddenly found herself overcome with emotion and harboring serious doubts as to whether she was actually going to make it through the entire event. Kelleher, a veteran schoolteacher who was used to […]
Through the trees and across the Canton Corner Cemetery, the bell peals each Sunday. The sweet sound calls parishioners to the services at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church — the quintessential white steeple church alongside the burying ground where generations of Canton’s citizens have been laid to rest. And from this steeple, history sounds […]
For the past five and a half years, Denny Swenson has lived, quite literally, with one foot in Canton and the other just beyond its reaches. As it turns out, the town’s border with Milton cuts right through her house diagonally, meaning that she and her husband, Win, are residents and taxpayers of both communities. […]
Carlo Zanazzo lives in North Pole, Alaska. Yes, the North Pole. Not only that, but he’s a subscriber to the Canton Citizen — and has been for quite some time now. He is a man who lives almost 3,300 miles away and yet remains deeply interested in and devoted to the community in which he […]
You can live in a place your whole life and still find surprise in your own backyard. Over the past year I have been exploring the Blue Hills Reservation. Trekking from Quincy to Canton and sometimes back again, the 7,000 acres of woodland and marsh is majestic and exhilarating. Some of the greatest views in […]
