Dear Editor: On behalf of the entire John F. Kennedy Elementary School and CAPT (Canton Association of Parent and Teachers), we would like to extend a huge expression of thanks to the local community for support of our annual “An Evening For Education” fundraiser, held on May 17. The proceeds from this fundraiser enable us […]
Dear Editor: I usually send something in this time of year to thank my fellow volunteers and “practically” volunteers for their hard work leading up to and during town meeting. While I still want to express my deep gratitude to everyone who put in hard work this year, I feel compelled to say more. The Finance Committee […]
Last week the media was full of Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a double mastectomy. Jolie had lost her mother to breast cancer and so she decided to be tested to see if she carried the genetic mutation BRCA, which indicates a 60 percent risk of getting breast and possibly ovarian cancer. When she found […]
DID YOU KNOW … At a recent special town meeting, Westwood voters approved seven warrant articles authorizing zoning changes and other measures clearing the way for the construction of the University Station project. The project, which started out eight years ago, was originally known as Westwood Station by developers Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, but they […]
Dear Editor: I moved to Canton because it featured democracy at its most basic, the town meeting, held annually. And I have watched it devolve over the last 22 years. Like last Wednesday’s town meeting in which there were eventually more people on the town’s payroll there than interested citizens. One scene of the various Canton Babbages […]
DID YOU KNOW … According to a recent report in the Boston Globe, the Blue Hills Ski Resort on Route 138 in Canton has been operated by Ski Blue Hills Management, LLC for the past six years. The company’s five-year contract expired this past season. According to the Globe report, Vero Piacentini, the company’s general […]
Dear Editor: With the help of Troop 77 scouts and scouters along with members of the community at large, I was able to execute my Eagle project at the DPW garage last summer. The Eagle project consisted of painting a significant number of fire hydrants off of main roads and painting the salt shed. The […]
DID YOU KNOW … The town of Canton may become only the second community in Massachusetts to raise the legal age to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21. As first reported by the Canton Citizen last month, the Canton Board of Health verbally agreed to increase the age after hearing about […]
Dear Editor: Despite the understandable reluctance of local pols and their followers to support Ed Markey in this primary, I am sure we all recognize that the right choice was made by the people of this state. Markey will lend the gravitas, awareness and progressiveness that our country needs as he joins his friend Elizabeth Warren […]
DID YOU KNOW … A $754,000 project to replace windows at the Hansen Elementary and Galvin Middle School skyrocketed to $2,345,000 following the discovery of toxic contaminants and asbestos found in the window caulking at both schools. According to Canton School Superintendent Jeff Granatino, and thanks in large part to Canton Finance Director Jim Murgia […]
