Dear Editor: When I was 8, my parents signed me up for the Canton Dolphins swim team so I could start to have the experience of a team sport. I had tried soccer and baseball, and they weren’t for me. The home pool for the Dolphins was constructed about 45 years ago on Bolivar Street, […]
By William P. O’Donnell, Norfolk Register of Deeds According to a recent real estate trade publication, the most popular reason people gave for buying a home was their desire to own it. Now that may not sound like rocket science, but just think for a second about what’s behind that statement. After all, homeowners want […]
By David McCarthy Traffic. That one word elicits a myriad of passionate reactions from Canton residents. Earlier this month McMahon Associates delivered to the Master Plan Steering Committee a recap of the focus areas they were charged with studying. Those areas included Randolph, Pleasant, Dedham and Chapman streets where each road intersects Washington Street and […]
The summer after my high school graduation, my mom and I took a road trip to Tennessee, stopping in North Carolina and South Carolina along the way. The purpose of the trip, in what we imagined to be the style of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore backpacking through Europe after Rory’s high school graduation, was for […]
It’s called phone spoofing. It’s rampant. It’s all too easy to fall for. And basically it means that to protect yourself, you cannot believe what you see on your Caller ID. Ever. A customer came into the bank to speak with me. His mother-in-law had recently passed away and he was the executor of her […]
Dear Editor: Indivisible Canton would like to thank Rep. Bill Galvin for co-sponsoring a bill to enact ranked choice voting for all state and federal elections except for president (H.719). American communities regularly see dynamic and competitive local elections, with no shortage of motivated candidates seeking office. But the rules governing these elections do not […]
Dear Canton community: I am writing with a request for all dog owners. Please be in control of your off-leash dogs in the Blue Hills trails and the Ponkapoag Pond area. I am a 12-year-old dog and I enjoy walking with my owner each day in the Ponkapoag area. It brings me great joy to enjoy the […]
Dear Editor: It often surprises me when I hear some Canton residents say that they have never been to the town pool on Bolivar Street. When I was 5 years old my parents were looking to move out of South Boston. They looked in a few different communities and then looked at a townhouse in […]
Did you know … Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, 73, is also a former U.S. attorney now living in Canton. He currently serves on the board of a cannabis investment company and works at Mintz Levin, a major Boston lobbying firm. Weld recently changed his affiliation at the Canton Town Clerk’s office from Libertarian back […]
Dear Editor: Congratulations once again to the sponsorship, leadership, cast and production crew of the Canton High School Drama Club production of Les Miserables as the play was a great success and a joy to watch. I wish to recognize another integral component of the play which went missing from the March 21 play coverage, that […]
