DID YOU KNOW… Thirty-five Canton seniors recently traveled by bus to Boston’s Symphony Hall where they heard an outstanding performance by the Keith Lockhart-conducted Boston Pops Orchestra and a superb group of entertainers singing some of the delightful music of Cole Porter. The seniors told MAC that it was a great time, and they look […]
June is my favorite month of the year. It’s just so very June. You can put away your ice scraper without fear of a surprise squall, lock up your mittens, and store your bulky sweaters. In June the summer hasn’t formally started so it’s still there in front of you to dream about. You can […]
DID YOU KNOW… Lame duck School Superintendent John D’Auria, 60, leaves his Canton job on June 30, and he is not letting any grass grow under his feet. The Boston Globe reports that, without missing a step, on July 1 he will become full-time president of Teachers 21, a non-profit education reform organization based in […]
DID YOU KNOW… Now that we’re through boiling our precious MWRA drinking water, state authorities tell us they’re still trying to determine (if they can) what or who caused that unanticipated major water line break in Weston. It is believed that the break was caused when a giant steel ring — reportedly installed several years […]
Today I introduced ten new vocabulary words that were harder than usual because my class likes challenges. The words may be difficult, but we shall persevere, both because of their attitude and because persevere is on the list. They liked that word. They felt that it described them and their quest for a GED. All […]
DID YOU KNOW… One of our readers has complained to MAC that the copy of the current labor contract between the town of Canton and Town Administrator Bill Friel, as well as the current contracts with the town unions and other town employees, are not on file at the library as required by longstanding town […]
There are times in my life when I’m thrilled to get more of anything, but most of the time I, like the architect Mies van der Rohe, believe that less is more. I don’t like things when they are overdone, overblown, overdressed. That being said, there are still too many times when I get caught […]
DID YOU KNOW… Murphy’s Law made an unexpected appearance at the Canton Choral Society’s first pops concert on May 15 at the Canton Town Club, and the unwanted law lost the battle. Murphy’s Law says if something can go wrong, it will go wrong; and in this latest case, the law involved the electrotonic piano […]
I looked at our carts brimming with thin, flat boxes and thought about how many times this store had solved our furniture problems. IKEA, I just found a store named IKEA and suddenly that name … you get the picture. I may make fun of it and claim that the name, roughly translated from the […]
DID YOU KNOW… There will be a dedication ceremony at 1 p.m. this coming Sunday, May 23, for the James Moran Water Treatment Plant on Pecunit Street, and the K of C has donated the use of its facility at 500 Pleasant Street for the reception following the ceremony. On another matter, the selectmen will […]
