Dear Editor: Thank you everyone for such a wonderful evening at our end of summer pool party. We had over 70 Canton kids in sixth, seventh and eighth grades attend the event, which was held at the town pool on Bolivar Street. This event would not have been possible without the youth commissioners in attendance. […]
Dear Editor: I noticed the other day on my way to work that the town of Canton DPW was working on Everendon Road, off Walpole Street. A few days later I noticed that the town repaved Everendon Road. Well, there is one street off Walpole Street that is one of the oldest streets in Canton, […]
Note: The letter below references a recent hearing held on the Patrick administration’s proposed ban on skin shocks, a practice currently employed at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The proposed ban is nearly identical to the budget amendment advanced by Senator Brian Joyce that was defeated by House members during recent conference committee debates. […]
Dear Editor: St Gerard’s in Canton and House of Possibilities have an amazing partnership. The St. Gerard’s youth group has been volunteering this year, and I have had the pleasure of working with them for the past six months. We have parties or socials called “Saturday Night Live” for special needs teens and adults. Every […]
Dear Editor: In a letter published in this space recently, I was criticized for my efforts to stop the application of painful electric skin shocks to disabled children at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The author suggested that my efforts on this and other matters were motivated by recent publicity and political expediency. Please allow me […]
Dear Editor: I recently resigned after three years and 11 months of volunteering at the Canton Public Library, once a week for a full day. While being at the library so frequently, I have come to know the staff, but more importantly, to observe this wonderful group of dedicated and selfless workers. The town of […]
Dear Editor: State Senator Brian Joyce took on the Judge Rotenberg Center recently by bad mouthing the founder of the center, Matthew Israel, its methods of controlling very emotionally disturbed children, and ranting on about cruel and abusive treatment by introducing legislation to ban skin shocks, a treatment approved by the parents of the children. […]
Dear Editor: I’d like to counter some of the biases published in two pieces that depicted the participation of the Canton Teachers Association at the June 16 School Committee Meeting: the letter from Ms. Schutt and the cover story by Mr. Berger. The headline to Mr. Berger’s story is fully biased and inaccurate; Ms. Schutt […]
Dear Editor: I’m writing to share my thoughts on the School Committee meeting held on Thursday, June 16. Concerned teachers and parents have watched in awe as a child desperate for relief from bullying is overlooked and left to seek relief in the form of suicide. School systems nationally and internationally have worked tirelessly to […]
Dear Editor: What the U.N. couldn’t do, what Mother Jones in 2007 couldn’t do, what the town of Canton wouldn’t do, what the Department of Justice may have helped with, Attorney General Martha Coakley has done. Matthew Israel, the torturer of children at the Judge Rotenberg Torture Center, has pled guilty to two counts of […]
