DID YOU KNOW … Home prices in Canton have dropped by 20 percent since the real estate market peaked in 2005. The median price for a single-family home in Canton in 2005 was $511,250; last year, the median price fell to $410,000. Statewide, the median sale prices of single-family homes declined from $355,000 in 2005 […]
Those of you who have been reading my columns through the years know how enthusiastic I am about embracing any new technology that comes along. I love the newness, the challenge, the unexplored frontier. There’s nothing I relish more than learning that a device that I depend on everyday to make my life easier is […]
Dear Editor: I’d like to counter some of the biases published in two pieces that depicted the participation of the Canton Teachers Association at the June 16 School Committee Meeting: the letter from Ms. Schutt and the cover story by Mr. Berger. The headline to Mr. Berger’s story is fully biased and inaccurate; Ms. Schutt […]
DID YOU KNOW … There’s a big change happening at the controversial Judge Rotenberg Center on Turnpike Street (Route 138). Their founding executive director, Dr. Matthew Israel, has resigned after leading the center for over 40 years. His resignation reportedly was to settle any and all pending legal charges against him for allegedly interfering with […]
I couldn’t stop laughing. Steve called out from the living room wanting to know what was so funny. All I could do was point to the article in Sunday’s Boston Globe about a new book by Adam Mansbach aimed at sleep deprived parents called, “Go the F**k to Sleep.” Although it looks deceptively like a […]
Dear Editor: I’m writing to share my thoughts on the School Committee meeting held on Thursday, June 16. Concerned teachers and parents have watched in awe as a child desperate for relief from bullying is overlooked and left to seek relief in the form of suicide. School systems nationally and internationally have worked tirelessly to […]
DID YOU KNOW… Canton Recreation Director Jeff Kaylor and the Recreation Commission are busy putting together the final plans for the town’s annual July 4th celebration. For the first time, this year’s event will be held at the Galvin Middle School on Pecunit Street on Monday, July 4. The festivities will begin at 5 p.m. […]
We’ve just finished reading two short stories by Mark Twain, entitled “Eve’s and Adam’s Diary.” Twain describes Adam as a man with little imagination, caring only about building structures and animal husbandry, and Eve as intelligent, imaginative and courageous but also vain and self important. The task that Eve loves best (besides naming all the […]
Although the real estate market here in eastern Massachusetts has generally held up better than in other parts of the country, there are still plenty of people who are struggling with mortgages and many who are underwater on their loans — meaning they owe more than they could currently hope to sell their home for. […]
Bill Thibeault, former Canton executive secretary and a Navy veteran and one of MAC’s best friends, died unexpectedly last Thursday after collapsing on Memorial Day at the American Legion Hall. He was 74 years old. Bill came to Canton in 1974 from Beverly, Massachusetts, by way of Derry, New Hampshire, his hometown. Bill adopted Canton […]
