Alumni of Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton use their education in countless ways. Some continue in the career field they studied at the school; others branch out in a totally new direction. A few leave these shores to journey to foreign lands where they use their technical knowledge very creatively. Dave Rinaldi is […]
On the subject of collecting, I have had plenty of experience and much of it began at a fairly young age. I must have been in the fourth grade, perhaps as young as 9 when I picked up my first piece of Canton memorabilia. It came from a classmate: a small round box with a […]
The image of kids in summer evokes carefree, lazy days and nonstop fun, but as a group of St. John’s students in the Green Street neighborhood of Canton recently proved, summer can also be a time to make use of one’s talents and help make a difference for those in need. For best friends Eliza […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on September 1, 2011. For more than a week the warnings had been coming, forecasting the hurricane that just passed us this weekend. For many of our generation, we shrug at the warnings — perhaps buy extra water or batteries, but do we really take the forecasters […]
Her T-shirt proclaims her a star, and on September 24, that is precisely what 8-year-old Lucy Falcone will be, as an image of her and her grandfather, Bruce Beckham, will appear on the MTV jumbo plasma screen in Times Square as part of a special video presentation promoting the “value, acceptance, and inclusion of people […]
It was another memorable and fun summer at the Ponkapoag Civic Association — a private pool and social club located in the Ponkapoag neighborhood of Canton. “It’s summertime fun at its best, and also great summer memories for the children and the parents, too,” one Civic member said. Founded in 1950 as a neighborhood club, […]
The pain in Sandy Goldstein’s voice is evident from the moment she speaks, and the more she shares, the more it becomes clear that she still hasn’t grieved the loss of her beloved nephew Jonathan Forman. As Sandy herself later admits, grief is a luxury that she simply cannot afford right now — not with […]
Passing a sign that reads “On this site…” usually means that the buildings or events associated with the property are long gone and history lessons can now only be found in books or a place marker. There are plenty of examples of this throughout Canton. Great examples include the site of Roger Sherman’s boyhood home, […]
Two visitors from the Chernobyl region — brothers Denis Butrin, 11, and Maxim Kobol, 17 — spent some time at the Canton Fire Station on Sunday, August 7, as part of their recent trip to the United States. The trip was made possible by the United Church of Christ in Canton, and the brothers are […]
The backroom of Tommy MacDonald’s Draper Street workshop is adorned with all manner of beautiful woodworking pieces — from laminated coat racks and folding kitchen tables to traditional sand-shaded clocks and standing mirrors. Beyond another locked door, in another nondescript backroom, stands MacDonald’s magnum opus: a beautifully detailed and seamlessly intricate chest of drawers that took […]
