DID YOU KNOW… The next time you’re in Boston and looking for a great place for a delicious, reasonably priced lunch, MAC suggests you try the Dry Dock Café on Dry Dock Avenue in South Boston. It is owned by longtime Canton residents George and Cathy Spiropoulos, and has been featured on the Phantom Gourmet […]
Food and wine have a symbiotic relationship (heck, there’s a whole magazine, Food & Wine, dedicated to the subject). Each complements the other and makes it stronger, like the bird in the Hippo’s mouth, but in a much more appetizing, less-saliva kinda way. A juicy steak with a big California Cab; Sauvignon Blanc and goat […]
As I told you earlier I’m a sucker for surveys, so every few months I find myself answering questions about the commuter rail. I must admit though that the train surveys are disappointing. Unlike the other forms that I fill out that ask different questions every time, the commuter rail always asks the same questions. […]
DID YOU KNOW… You may have seen the recent Canton Citizen headline and article telling us the sad story: “The Canton Public Schools budget shortfall could exceed $1 million in 2011.” Much of the shortfall has to do with the expensive cost of out-of-district services for special needs students that are mandated by state law. […]
Walking to work last Wednesday morning, I was standing at Tremont Street waiting for the light to change so that I could cross. Tremont is the busiest street that I pass on the way to work. Not only does traffic race by at unsafe speeds, but the little pedestrian-guy pictured on the walk sign is […]
DID YOU KNOW… One of the larger and more surprising foreclosure notices recently published in the Patriot Ledger concerned the new Blue Hills Commons Condos belonging to B.H. Commons, LLC., located at 780 Dedham Street, Suite 400 in Canton, which are being foreclosed by their 2006 mortgagee, the National City Bank. The condo complex is […]
Five years ago when Steve and I visited the western states we fell in love. Not with each other — we’d already done that over 35 years ago — but with Arizona and New Mexico. But though we reveled in the beauty of the natural landscape, it was a man-made structure that intrigued us the […]
DID YOU KNOW… This really is a strange world. Despite the fact that Canton residents have been using less water, the selectmen are going to raise our water bills at about $7 per month between January and June, and that’s on top of the 10 percent increase that went into effect on July 1, 2009. […]
Everyone thinks they can teach. They think, “What can be so hard about standing in front of a room full of kids and talking? Before I entered the ranks of teachers I thought the same thing. And then I stood in front of my first class of high school sophomores and I wanted to eat […]
DID YOU KNOW… Those of you who are curious about all those moths you noticed swarming in your headlights or around your outside lights at home last month — especially along the South Shore down to the Cape — you might be interested in a story recently published in the Boston Globe concerning the unexpected […]
