To the town of Canton: Our family would like to sincerely thank you for the incredible show of love and support you gave on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. We know that our loss is felt throughout the entire town, and your thoughts and prayers have always helped us get through what […]
Dear Chairman Connolly and members of the board: Thank you very much for allowing me to participate in the 10th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks and the dedication of the memorial to Canton native Michael Uliano and other 9/11 victims held in Canton on Sunday. The ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park was a perfect […]
Dear Editor: We want to extend a huge thank you to the Ricky 27 Foundation. The foundation contributed a grant that made it possible for one of our field hockey players, Cady Kelly, to participate with our club field hockey team in the National Field Hockey Festival in Virginia this past summer. With their help, Cady was able […]
DID YOU KNOW … The stock market recorded losses for four straight weeks in the month of August. In fact, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had 10 days of more than a 100-point movement up and down (mostly down). If you ask MAC, the U.S. economy is headed toward a recession. The weak economy is […]
Sometimes I fool myself into thinking that I’ve got life all worked out, figured out, and straightened out. Then suddenly I can’t dry my hair or have my morning coffee, can’t turn on the computer to check my mail, can’t even open the garage door to get my car out. When the electricity is off […]
Dear Editor: This is a note to the community at large. We wish to extend our thanks to Kramer Jewelers, Reebok, and LensCrafters for their generous support to Maxim and Denis from Clincy, Russia. Also, thanks goes out to the many people in the town for their anonymous kindness. The fire and police departments also […]
DID YOU KNOW … At over 22 percent, Canton has one of the highest percentages in the south shore of condos, apartments, and multi-family homes. Stoughton is close to 25 percent, while Sharon is less than 10 percent. The state average is 11.8 percent. Oklahoma now has the country’s highest monthly average temperature ever recorded. […]
Dear Editor: Hats off to Tanya Willow on her debut column, “Outside the Whale,” in last week’s Canton Citizen. Bold and inspiring, her words are truly refreshing in today’s society in which ennui, inertia and self-preservation oftentimes prevail. I recently saw on television the results of a poll in which the majority of college-age Americans […]
Dear Editor: It was an honor and a privilege to have been associated with Mac MacGregor in the practice of law for over 30 years in Canton. Mac was a brilliant lawyer, a wise and judicious town moderator and selectman, a devoted family man, a skilled pilot, a joy to his many friends and acquaintances, […]
Writers have more places to express themselves today than in all history — from online newspapers to blogs. But with all the opportunity and formats to express ideas, and with our country and with local communities like Canton facing so many problems, why is the writing so banal? Online columns read like personal diary entries, […]
