Canton Police and Fire personnel responded to three heroin overdoses last week (July 20-26), and all three people were revived with Narcan. The victims included a 21-year-old female, a 48-year-old male, and a 32-year-old male. In other news, Police Chief Ken Berkowitz announced that the Substance Abuse Coalition will sponsor open gym nights for Canton […]
The Canton Police and Fire departments responded to one drug overdose in Canton last week. EMS coordinator Jamie Meier said that Narcan was not administered; however, the patient did admit to using heroin. In other substance abuse news, Selectman Bob Burr told the Citizen last week that the board will review a suggestion to require […]
The house is surrounded. Come out with your hands up. It is the stuff of TV and movies, but for a few tense moments last Tuesday evening, July 7, it was reality for Hubbard Street resident Marty Herman, who found himself as the unwitting victim of a telephone hoax known as “swatting.” Equally as dangerous […]
The communities of Canton, Stoughton, Holbrook, and Walpole have applied for and received a state grant to finance the appointment of a full-time substance abuse coalition coordinator to coordinate activities within the four towns. Canton Fire Chief Charlie Doody said the coordinator will mobilize the four communities to help prevent alcohol and drug abuse among […]
Police Chief Ken Berkowitz and Fire Chief Charlie Doody agreed at last week’s selectmen’s meeting that there should be more public awareness of heroin overdoses in the community. Each week, the Citizen will report on the number of overdoses and administration of Narcan (an opiate reversal drug) as reported by both departments. For the week […]
Selectman Bob Burr called on his fellow board members to consider a mandatory substance abuse training session for youth sports coaches prior to each season in an effort to curb the epidemic of opiate addiction. Burr’s suggestion came Tuesday night after both Police Chief Ken Berkowitz and Fire Chief Charlie Doody reaffirmed the message they […]
Black Lives Matter — the Twitter hashtag that became a call to action and eventually a fully realized movement with 23 chapters across the U.S. and abroad — recently became the talk of the town in Canton after a sign bearing those three familiar words turned up on a downtown street corner last week. Within […]
Proclaiming that “teen lives matter” and reaffirming a commitment to community-based policing, several members of the Canton Police Department, in conjunction with Canton Families Embracing Diversity (CFED) and local attorney and law professor Ernst Guerrier, tackled the weighty subject of police/community relations head-on at a public forum held last Wednesday evening in the Canton High […]
A potent batch of heroin has made its way into the greater Boston area and is the likely culprit behind two overdoses in Canton last week, according to local law enforcement officials. One of the overdoses claimed the life of a Canton man in his 20s, while the second victim, who was also in his […]
Wanting a full vetting of an apparent speeding problem in the Wentworth Road neighborhood between Randolph and Washington streets, the Board of Selectmen decided Tuesday night to schedule a public hearing within the next month and notify all abutters before taking the steps of installing several new stop signs in the area. In the interim, […]
