Dear Editor: Life is never what you expect. In the October 6, 2012 article from The Daily Beast titled “Heaven is Real: A Doctor’s Experience with the Afterlife,” Dr. Eben Alexander retells a harrowing account of a week in 2008 when his life teetered between life and death. Upon waking one morning, Dr. Alexander’s entire cranial […]
Dear Editor: Canton has been overrun with 40B projects that bring apartments to Canton. We are impacted in an AA Zone on Randolph Street with three projects: Blue Hills Village across from Blue Hills Regional High School and two more Avalon Apartments on Randolph Street on the Canton-Randolph line. Chapter 40B was passed by the […]
Dear Editor: Believing that only an informed electorate can govern themselves properly, the Canton Council on Aging sponsored a forum on the all-important last event of our lives: the act of dying. Dr. Marcia Angell, who teaches medical ethics at Harvard School of Medicine and is a leading proponent of this bill, says that the […]
Dear Editor: When 45 years ago we chose to bring up our three children in the charming town of Canton, it was because of the “country like” living with lots of open space. Through the years we have seen many open fields disappear and the trees come down so that by the time my grandson […]
Political yard signs encouraging, not ‘trashy’ Dear Editor: I must respectfully disagree with the recent letter to the editor decrying the presence of political signs that have popped up in yards around town. I do not find them to be “trashy.” On the contrary, in an era of voter apathy, I find it heartening to […]
Dear Editor: For the past 12 years, the students of Canton High School and I have participated in the Annual Walk for Breast Cancer. Over the last three years the students, with the support of the community, have raised over $31,000. The 2010 walk was a special year as we had over 80 students raise […]
Dear Editor: I have resided in Canton for over 30 years, and I have always been proud that at election time, Canton, unlike surrounding towns, was not littered with trashy candidate signs all over citizens’ properties. I had assumed it was a town ordinance banning them. However, I became even more proud of the citizens […]
Dear Chief Doody: I am writing to extend our sincere gratitude to the town of Canton Fire Department and EMT group for their assistance in a medical emergency in our home. On Friday, September 14, we were enjoying a normal, lovely afternoon. Out of the blue my husband experienced sudden excruciating pain, could not move, […]
The York Street Neighborhood Association wants to thank Mike Trotta, Danny Teague, Bill Walsh, and the rest of the DPW staff for the fabulous job they did in the York Street area recently. They removed debris and cut dead trees along the roadway, redesigned the bridge, painted “SLOW” on the roadways, added reflective strips on poles, and repainted the street lines […]
Dear Editor: A special thank you is extended to the Police Department, namely our son-in-law, Officer Kevin Albert, and the Fire Department, Captain Andy Morgan, Paramedics Rowan Olmstead, Doug Connor, Jamie Meier and Leo Reardon, and firefighter Brian Leary, regarding Andy’s injury last Wednesday. We feel very fortunate to have these two most important responders […]
