Dear Editor: Canton’s municipal elections took place last week. Turnout was 2.3 percent. It doesn’t have to be this way. At the 2014 Canton annual town meeting voters approved an article to move our municipal elections to November. Unfortunately, for reasons going back to colonial times, Canton needs state approval for such a change. Approval […]
Dear Editor: Do you have more clothes in your closet than you think you can handle? Would you consider donating these clothes to raise money for a good cause such as Limbs for Life, a charity that provides amputees with prosthetic limbs? If so, Canton High School would love your support! An account on the […]
Dear Editor: In light of the current falling tree tragedies in our town and in other Massachusetts towns, perhaps an arborist could be hired to patrol our Canton streets to evaluate the condition of trees that hang over or border our roads with the results being made available to the public. Channel 5 had a segment […]
From time to time, I ask Canton Citizen editor Jay Turner if he has any ideas for my column. A while ago he suggested writing about some of the less common pets. It just so happens a dear friend of mine, Jennifer Plombon, is one of the founders of the Hedgehog Welfare Society. I knew […]
Dear Editor: Having worked for many years in the election process in Canton, I can appreciate the work that is done by the poll workers. The day begins for them at 6:30 a.m. until the polls close at 8 p.m. There is complete accountability for the ballots. The final count has to equal the ballots […]
Did you know … The Boston Mutual Company is in the process of planning to construct a new hotel with 138 rooms and a “top-line,” 6,000-square-foot restaurant on a three-acre parcel situated off Royall Street between its company and the Reebok headquarters. The project has the backing of all the corporate abutters as well as […]
Dear Editor: I attended the March 23 Conservation Commission hearing and learned that all the trees on the former Plymouth Rubber site along Neponset and Revere streets along the Canton River/East Branch of the Neponset River are slated to be cut down, stumps removed, and all vegetation removed, in a poorly planned attempt by the […]
Did you know … Massachusetts license plates are made in prison. If you ever wondered about Massachusetts auto license plates, you may be interested to know that they are all made by prisoners at the MCI-Cedar Junction prison in Walpole, where they have been making them since 1920. Approximately 4.8 million Massachusetts plates are currently […]
Did you know … A recent interesting article in the Boston Globe mentioned that the state plans to breed and raise 150 venomous timber rattlesnakes and then turn them loose on protected land on a small island in the middle of the Quabbin Reservoir, which, by the way, provides drinking water to Boston and many […]
The first female dog we ever had was an English setter we called Abby. Her registered name was Clariho’s Dear Abigail. We named her Abigail because the old, beat-up paperback dictionary we owned had a section of names and their meanings in the back, and that particular book said Abigail meant “father’s joy.” Clariho was […]
