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, […]
DID YOU KNOW … The main sticking point in the Canton school teachers’ contract negotiations with the School Committee is the proposed restructuring of the salary scale that would double the number of years (from 12 to 24) that a teacher would have to complete in order to reach the top of the pay scale. […]
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. […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton DJ Gary Titus was recently featured in the “Inside Track” of the Boston Herald in a story detailing the decline of the summer weekend Cape Cod happy hours. A picture of Gary taken at Pufferbellies in Hyannis in the 1980s shows him smiling as he held court over a raucous happy […]
The day we brought Snoopy home from the animal shelter was memorable for all the wrong reasons. After years of hearing our two girls constantly harangue us with, “Please can we get a dog, please, please, please can we get a dog, please we’ll take care of it please!?” I finally gave in because Mariel […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton’s own Jim Carmichael is a U.S. Air Force Captain flying B-52 stratofortress bombers stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Most of us who read the Canton Citizen know that a flood recently inundated his home in North Dakota. His home was under water for weeks, and everything […]
Thirty-six years ago, Steve and I sat on a swing set in an Indiana campground, discussing the impossibility of getting married. Actually, I was the one talking impossible — Steve was trying to convince me of the possible. All I saw was us living on opposite sides of the ocean enmeshed in families and jobs […]
