Tower Hill Center for Health and Rehabilitation is one of Canton’s best-kept secrets. Its 164 beds comprise three programs: short-term rehabilitation, long-term care and the Russian House, a unit which specializes in meeting the health care needs of native Russian speakers. Yet according to Executive Director and Canton resident Jerry LaBelle, Tower Hill does not […]
As her classmates settle in front of the television for a relaxing February vacation, Canton resident Bridget Ponte will be under the lights competing for a title at the 2011 All-Ireland Irish Dancing Championships in Killarney, Ireland. Ponte watched her older sisters participate in step dancing before she first picked up the soft shoes at […]
Parents of child with EA/TEF reaching out to other parents of children born with same defect Kestrel McDonald’s parents describe their daughter as a typical 6 year old. A first grade student at the Kennedy School, she enjoys sledding, singing, drawing and dancing. What is different about Kestrel is that she was born with esophageal […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on January 20, 2011. If you live in New England and you do not love the snow, at the very least you have to appreciate the amazing forces of nature that converge upon us and present themselves in the form of a Nor’easter. The recent storm that […]
Less than two years ago, Ryan Hathaway was a freshman at Xaverian Brothers High School, making new friends and enjoying his classes. But as the winter of 2009 turned into spring, he began to complain of fatigue, bruises and pain in his bones. Ryan’s mom, Katey Hathaway, took him to his pediatrician, who diagnosed him […]
CHS boys’ varsity basketball coach Mike Devoll has a wealth of talent and expertise in his assistant coaching ranks this year, but he also has a couple of former classmates to lean on who were stars in their own right while playing for the Bulldogs in the mid 1990s. Canton natives Jarod Cowens and Eileen […]
On December 16, exactly ten months to the day after losing their house and nearly all of their belongings in a two-alarm fire that also claimed their elderly cat Patches, the Notkin family of Canton made their long-awaited return to 63 Trayer Road. The house, which had to be completely rebuilt from the studs up, […]
You really should not trespass. And yet, while it is indeed risky to admit to this fact, sometimes the prize is worth the risk. Let me place by way of disclaimer the fact that you should in no way follow in my footsteps; let this be fair warning. You should leave the trespassing to well […]
With no previous experience, Canton resident Linda Carmichael decided on a whim to take a beginner and intermediate art class with renowned local artist Mona Podgurski. “I never thought I could draw anything,” Carmichael said. “But she said I had the eye, a talent, so I decided to pursue it more.” But that was six […]
As St. John the Evangelist Church prepares to kick off its 150th anniversary with an opening mass at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 27, some of the parish’s oldest parishioners are reminded of all the ways the church has affected their lives. Charlie Stevenson moved to Canton in the third grade and enrolled at St. […]
