DID YOU KNOW … The town of Canton was under a boil water order by the Department of Environmental Protection for almost one week, from September 28 through October 3. E. coli bacteria was found in a water sample during a routine collection on Cedar Street. The town notified residents and businesses using the reverse […]
Comedian Bill Burr, brother of Canton Selectman Bob Burr, recently performed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, the Canton native has been one of the more prolific and consistently hilarious voices in comedy over the past few years. Bill will now reprise his role as “hard hat guy” on the […]
Noisy, excited kids filled the room. They moved from box to box, searching for something they hadn’t read before. Some of the younger kids found their perfect book and plopped down to read, unable to wait for their parents to purchase it, let alone until they got it home. Parents read to young children while […]
A message to the community: I want to take this opportunity to thank the town of Canton and Canton High School for the years of support I was given as the boys’ basketball coach at Canton High School. I cherished every single day that I was involved with the basketball program in Canton, and it […]
DID YOU KNOW … MAC recently listed the percentage of condos and apartments in Canton against single family housing at over 22 percent. It is interesting to note that out of the 22 percent, over 10 percent of the housing units are subsidized under Chapter 40B, the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Bylaw. In neighboring towns, Stoughton […]
DID YOU KNOW … The new ADA-compliant ramp at the Canton Senior Center, located at 660 Washington Street, has been completed. According to Council on Aging Director Diane Tynan, “What a difference it makes for those entering and leaving the Senior Center.” Talking about the Senior Center, a free Italian dinner, sponsored by an anonymous […]
Editor’s note: The following column originally appeared in a 2001 issue of the Canton Citizen. For the people in the world who live 9/11 every day of their lives. I used to live in a suburb of Haifa, a picture postcard, hillside city in northern Israel. My apartment sat on the crest of a hill […]
Dear Tony Andreotti: I am writing to thank you and your committee for putting together the program honoring the Vietnam Era veterans on Sunday, September 11. As a veteran who served in Vietnam from February 1968 to February 1969, I felt a sense of homecoming from the moment I was greeted at the registration table. […]
DID YOU KNOW … The Canton High School Class of 1961 will hold its 50th class reunion on Saturday, October 29, at the Hilton Hotel in Dedham. Seventy-five former graduates have already signed up to go. Those interested in attending who have not signed up can contact class president Jim Halley at 401-295-4421, or email […]
This column’s name, “Outside the Whale,” is a play on George Orwell’s 1940 essay, “Inside the Whale.” Orwell’s essay is a book review of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, published in 1931 but banned as pornography from the United States until 1961. (Miller’s book was not impossible to get before 1961. My father — who […]
