Mariel was home for Chanukah this year, which doesn’t happen often. When the kids were small I would spend weeks preparing gifts and decorations. As the kids got bigger the decorations and gifts became fewer, and there were nights when we would miss lighting candles altogether. Now since there are no kids left in the […]
Paul Callanan was a veteran of World War II, a trustee of the Canton Public Library for 13 years and served as both a teacher and vice principal at Canton High School. But to generations of Canton children, Callanan, who passed away January 16, was Santa Claus. For nearly 30 years, they waited in line […]
DID YOU KNOW … John Connolly told MAC that he will be running for reelection as a Canton selectman, and MAC is endorsing him because, for the past 30 years, I have watched him demonstrate a firm and untiring commitment to making Canton a better place to live, to work, and to raise our children. […]
The Canton Garden Club is very appreciative of the Canton community’s support of its recent Holiday House Tour and all of its many activities over the past year. These successes are due to the wonderful response of local residents as well as the club’s hardworking members. Proceeds from these events are used to support the […]
Editor’s note: Selectmen Chairman Bob Burr disputed the following assertions in a recent interview. He stated that the risks of purchasing the K of C building, although minimal to the town, were articulated to residents at annual town meeting and that divestiture of the property “had always been an option” if renovations were deemed to […]
DID YOU KNOW … The second edition of the Canton High School Alumni Directory 2012 was recently published and distributed. It includes biographical listings with contact information, career overviews, and family highlights plus a special section about the history of Canton High School from its first graduating class of 1869 to the last graduating class […]
It started with a cough. Not a very impressive cough at first, but as the days passed it grew. Steve kept telling me that he just had a cold, and when I insisted that it sounded like something worse, he got cranky. Now, I’ve lived with this man for 36 years, and I know when […]
DID YOU KNOW… Westwood Station, now known as University Station, is back in the news. A special town meeting is scheduled to convene in Westwood on February 28 to consider adding a layer of new zoning for the 140-acre industrial tract on University Avenue. Westwood town meeting participants will also vote on the development’s first […]
DID YOU KNOW … Paula Chin of Canton was the winner of the Boston Herald’s Holiday Baking Contest. According to the Herald, “Chin swept the field with her take on rugelach, a rich pastry filled with dried fruit and nuts.” Chin is a library assistant at the Canton Public Library. The Herald proclaimed Paula Chin […]
My neighbor said she hadn’t stopped crying all weekend. A shooting at an elementary school? Another friend and mother of elementary aged children felt “apathetic” that weekend — that there is nothing that can’t be senselessly taken from her. Lanza’s first victim was his own mother. All six adult victims were women. He killed 20 […]
