It’s a cool, late autumn afternoon in 1988 with the wind brisk and the skies threatening rain when a tall, white-haired woman struts across Memorial Field carrying a fold-up chair, a blanket, an umbrella and a reporter’s notebook. Players running through warm-up drills shout, “Hello, Peg!” and she smiles and waves as she makes her […]
Tall and brawny, Tommy MacDonald is about the last guy one would expect to be wearing makeup, but now more than halfway through taping the first season of his upcoming Public Television woodworking series, the Canton native is getting used to it. While he said it was uncomfortable the first couple of times he had […]
One morning this winter, Canton resident Yiannis Karavas arrived early to his Introduction to Astronomy class at the Dexter School in Brookline. Ron Dantowitz, the director of the Clay Center, the school’s observatory, stood at the front of class, acting as a substitute for Karavas’ teacher Kelly Beatty. Before the rest of the class filtered […]
After more than two months of largely door-to-door campaigning, Canton selectman and state Senate hopeful Bob Burr remains very much aware of the challenges inherent in his bid to topple seven-time incumbent Brian Joyce — not the least of which begins with a capital R, as in Republican. Burr, who is new to the party, […]
On June 24, more than 100 Canton seniors attended the Council on Aging’s annual cookout at the Senior Center, where they enjoyed entertainment and fine food by Centerfield’s Bar and Grill. In addition, Selectmen Chairman Victor Del Vecchio surprised outreach worker Diane Brady with a certificate of recognition for 20 years of service to the town. […]
Last fall the Hansen School unveiled a portrait and learning center in honor of recently retired principal Bill Griffin. When Griffin’s portrait was added to a wall in the lobby, a group of veteran teachers realized the Hansen now had portraits honoring two of the school’s three past principals — Griffin and the school’s first […]
Editor’s note: The following is a continuation of a series of occasional spotlights on Canton’s town employees, conceived as a way to honor the important work of our many public servants, a number of whom rarely, if ever, get the recognition they deserve. This week we are proud to introduce our readers to Diane Tynan, […]
Don’t tell Eleanor Durham Bowes that “you can’t go home again.” Last Tuesday the 97-year-old Canton native returned to her childhood home at 238 Sherman Street for the first time since moving away in 1935. Richard Bowes, 61, picked up his mother at her home in Plympton — she lives there with her daughter, Christine […]
Four years ago, before her youngest son went off to college, Canton resident Cheryl Conroy asked a group of moms — friends she’d made from her son’s hockey and lacrosse teams — to get together once a month for a social gathering. “My beginning intentions were a little selfish,” Conroy said. “I didn’t want to […]
While opening the mail one night, Canton resident Amy Killeen was surprised to find that she was named one of this year’s 100 Unsung Heroines by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Killeen’s Northeastern University colleague Sheila Magee Beare had discretely written a letter of recommendation to the commission back in March on […]
