In the fall of 2004, during her third deployment to Iraq as a combat photojournalist, U.S. Army Specialist Blanka K. Stratford signed a sworn statement admitting to being in a sexual relationship with another woman. A few weeks later, on November 19, she was sent home with an honorable discharge in accordance with the military’s official policy at the time on homosexuality, known colloquially as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Oct 13 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
In the fall of 2006, Pam Abrams-Warnick walked around Marshalls in a daze, her arms full of clothes that she had no desire to buy. A year earlier, her son Jeremy had tragically passed away at the age of 20. He was a bright, energetic, fun-loving young man, full of life and vitality. His sudden […]
Oct 5 2011 | Posted in
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Danny Joseph
John Forger thought he was ready. He wanted to lose weight. He had started to exercise. The travel arrangements were complete. And then, on the day before he was scheduled to fly to California to appear as a contestant on Season 12 of the NBC program The Biggest Loser, he changed his mind. He was […]
Oct 5 2011 | Posted in
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Mary Ann Price
It’s the stuff most people only read about, but for 40-plus years during the tumultuous 20th century, Canton resident Bernard C. Redmont enjoyed a front-row seat to some of the most significant events in modern world history. He was in Russia, traveling on a Pulitzer fellowship as a freelance journalist, when the Second World War […]
Oct 5 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Canton Police Lieutenant Patty Sherrill spent part of her summer teaching life choices, ethics, and the importance of making good decisions to youths from all over the United States and beyond at the National Youth Leadership Program held at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. A graduate of the FBI Police Officer Command program, Lt. […]
Sep 28 2011 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
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 […]
Sep 28 2011 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen
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 […]
Sep 8 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
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 […]
Aug 31 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
