A customer was buying a new car, and she could either take a zero percent loan from the dealer for 72 months or get a $9,000 rebate on the purchase price. She didn’t know how to make up her mind as to which would be the better deal for her, and actually called her bank […]
DID YOU KNOW… Joe Uliano was my close friend. As a matter of fact, Joe was a friend to hundreds of people. He was a friend to all the members of the Canton Town Club. He was a friend to all the people he came in contact with as a longtime, hardworking member of the […]
If one more person asks me that question I will be forced to do them an injury. It especially irks me when my children ask me that. We’ll be having a perfectly lovely conversation along the lines of, “Remember when we all went on safari?” and I’ll sit there with a silly smile plastered on […]
DID YOU KNOW… This coming Wednesday, October 6, is the 140th anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of Etta K. Barstow. That name may not mean anything to you, but it should. Etta Barstow was a dedicated Canton schoolteacher who many “townies” will recognize as the teacher who was “stoned to death” many years ago; […]
DID YOU KNOW… Autumn officially arrived yesterday, September 22, which means the baseball season is almost over. Whatever the season, baseball doesn’t appear to be over for white-haired and bearded “Spaceman” Bill Lee, the 63-year-old left-handed former pitcher for the Red Sox who recently won the game he pitched for the Brockton Rox against the Worcester […]
DID YOU KNOW… Canton’s sixth annual homecoming celebration is coming up on Saturday, September 25. It will get underway at 8:30 a.m. with the annual Reebok/Canton Homecoming Road Race, which starts and finishes at Canton High School. This year’s race, which has a 7:30 a.m. registration time, will feature a 5K and 10K, a wheelchair […]
The one thing that is as sure in our house as the sun coming up is that Snoopy needs his daily walk. Some dogs are happy to sit outside in the yard, others prefer a short stroll around the block, but beagles need proper walks so that they can sniff out every living thing that […]
DID YOU KNOW… There is no question. It costs a lot of money to build or renovate a school building today, as evidenced by our recent Canton High School renovation, which cost Canton taxpayers over $40 million. In recent years, school construction costs have been getting out of hand. For instance, the most expensive public high […]
Pack, ship, give away. Forty years dwindled down to four words. This summer Mom and I went from room to room, closet to closet, drawer to drawer repeating that mantra, answering three seemingly simple questions that embraced our hardest choices. How do you decide which one of your 40 years to pack, ship, or give […]
Former Canton High basketball standout Mike Byrnes has accepted an assistant coaching position with the men’s basketball team at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. He has 20 years of coaching experience. Many of you will recall that Byrnes is a 1984 Canton High graduate and played two years at forward for Coach John Calipari at […]
