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 […]
Last week my class discussed the new anti-bullying law. Some of my students had kids who were enduring bullying hell; others had experienced it themselves. We came to the sad conclusion that at some time everyone has found themselves in the clutches of a bully. They agreed that the experience changed the way they felt […]
DID YOU KNOW… The Canton American Legion Community Band is looking for musicians to refill its ranks, which have been steadily depleting due to advancing age, health problems, and employment/residence transfers out of the area. The award-winning band was originally founded in 1927, disbanded during World War II and the Korean War, and was inactive […]
