Editor’s note: The following op-ed piece, written by Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz and Canton Fire Chief Charlie Doody, will appear in the June 25 edition of the Canton Citizen. In response to two overdoses (one fatal and the other nonfatal) in our community over the recent weeks, the Canton Police Department collectively made a […]
Editor’s Note: The following letters were sent to the School Committee and are being reprinted at the request of the authors. The School Committee was expected to vote tonight on whether to fund the proposed later school start times. See next week’s Canton Citizen for updates. Hello School Committee: We are putting sons 4 and 5 […]
Dear Editor: Why is our new exercise room too small? It’s a wall-to-wall challenge these days to observe and/or try to participate in senior exercise programs at the Council on Aging building on Pleasant Street! The square-footage of the exercise room has proven to be functionally inadequate. As warned from its inception on blueprint plans, […]
Dear Editor: To say that Canton’s traffic management is a mess is an understatement. Try driving through downtown during rush hour; try getting out of Sherman Street onto Pleasant Street, etc., etc. Who knows more about the problems with certain intersections than the folks living in those precincts? These two new selectmen, Kevin Feeney and Mark […]
On behalf of the staff, priests and parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Parish, and the family of Reverend Michael F. McLellan, sincere gratitude is extended to Fire Chief Charles Doody and the Canton Fire Department, Police Chief Ken Berkowitz and the Canton Police Department, and the emergency room team of Norwood Hospital for their […]
Dear Editor: “Dance like no one is laughing” has pretty much been my motto whenever I go where there’s dancing, so it was a pleasure to see that the student council members at Canton High School felt the same way. They put on a “senior prom” for the seniors at the Council on Aging Friday evening, and […]
Dear Editor: Bud Herzog was my father and you are reading this sentence because of him. I remember using an early internet application in 1994. My father sat beside me in front of a VAX terminal in the basement of the Clark University library, and he was shocked at my typing back and forth with college […]
Dear residents: Canton needs tuition-free full-day kindergarten (FDK) for all children. Stoughton has offered tuition-free FDK for 10 years for all their kids. Canton charges students $3,500. Statewide, 90 percent of children attend FDK; more than 70 percent of towns charge zero tuition. During this current school year, only about 70 percent of Canton kids attend FDK and the norm […]
Dear Editor: On Sunday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Cheryl’s Kids are hosting their sixth annual “Cheryl’s Kids Bake Sale.” Daycare provider Cheryl Isaksen and her “kids” (past and present) will host a fun-filled day of selling sweets and treats, with all funds to be donated to charity. As the event is in […]
Dear Editor: As someone who lives about 200 feet from the Plymouth Rubber site, I strongly support the proposed redevelopment plan. Frankly, the site is an eyesore that has long needed to be cleaned up and redeveloped. But beyond that, I support the project because of the open space it offers and the additional tax […]
