While the recent pledge by Governor Deval Patrick to maintain local aid at current levels in 2011 was welcome news to be sure, school officials in Canton still have a million reasons to be worried about their FY2011 operating budget, beginning — and seemingly ending — with a million-dollar shortfall tied to out-of-district special education […]
Editors note: The following is the fourth in 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. Therefore, over the course of the next several months, the Citizen will […]
While it is customary to leave an offering in the collection plate, several parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Church had no choice but to pay up recently when their cars, which they had parked in the Canton Center MBTA commuter rail lot during Sunday services, were smacked with a $5 ticket despite the fact […]
By Cathy Anderson Last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti has rocked the world with its aftermath of destruction and staggering numbers of dead and missing. While the statistics change from day to day, families across the world, the nation and here in Canton are still living under a cloud of fear and uncertainty. Canton resident […]
In what will no doubt be an election that will go down in the history books, Republican state Representative Scott Brown overwhelmingly defeated his Democratic challenger, state Attorney General Martha Coakley, in Tuesday’s highly contentious and pivotal race to succeed the late Senator Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate. Bud Jennings and Karen Taylor of […]
By Tanya Willow The moon is still in the sky over Canton’s Town Hall when poll workers are due to come in and collect their wares so that they can be at their precincts when the polls open at 7 in the morning. Because of the timing of Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, Massachusetts is holding […]
While it is still too early to know for sure, the Canton Public Schools looks to be headed toward a “very, very dark period” for the next couple of years, according to Superintendent Dr. John D’Auria, who previewed the FY2011 operating budget at last week’s School Committee meeting. Although no actual line items were discussed, […]
~ A look at what made headlines in Canton during the 2000s ~In an article recapping the events of 2002, the Citizen proclaimed that “budget woes and building projects” dominated the headlines that year. A year later, this paper dubbed 2003 as “a year of progress — and traffic.” But as residents of this […]
~ Next clinic is scheduled for January 16 at CHS ~ By Kathy Anderson The Centers for Disease Control has said that incidences of the H1N1 virus have peaked in the United States, but influenza-like illnesses, including H1N1, are still active and Canton health officials urge residents at risk to get immunized to reduce chances […]
Editor’s note: Although it is impossible to properly measure the importance of one event against another, the editors of the Canton Citizen have carefully reviewed all of the stories that made headlines this year and have selected the ones that they feel have had the greatest impact on the community. What follows then, is the […]
