As a dedicated family man and a 25-year veteran of his hometown police force, CPD Detective John Ruane III has spent the vast majority of his adult life helping and serving others. But in an instant this summer, his circumstances changed, and now it’s Ruane who finds himself in need of help. And it hasn’t […]
On the 10th day of March 1863, nine men were granted a dispensation to organize a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Canton. These men, stalwarts of the community, began to assemble a membership with a history and lineage that connects through Stoughton to Most Worshipful Paul Revere and Bro. Richard Gridley. To trace […]
With the advent of single-stream collection and the recent automation of curbside pick-up, more Canton residents than ever are doing their part at home to separate recyclables from regular household trash. Whether out of a genuine commitment to sustainability or simply as a matter of convenience, nearly every home in town now utilizes the 96-gallon […]
By Rachelle Ferrelli On July 18, local Clarke School students gathered with their families for the annual year-end celebration and graduation at Orchard Cove, an award-winning senior living community located less than a mile from the Clarke campus in Canton. It was not the first time that some of the students had visited the warm and […]
Thomas Cahill, 18, visited Cuba for the first time last month as part of a St. Gerard Majella outreach group. Micaela Duffy, 19, was also with the group, going on the service trip for the second time; she was a member of the group that traveled to the island last year. Both Cahill and Duffy […]
At the age of 28, Audrey Murray boarded a one-way flight to Kazakhstan to begin the first leg of a solo tour through the former USSR. Through the course of 12 months, the Canton native visited 11 former republics as part of a fascinating and surprising journey that would involve “kidnappers, garbage bags of money, […]
By Bernard Mendillo Mark Lague is like a rare book nestled in the library he loves. Unlike most Americans, who typically have four or five distinct careers in a lifetime, Mark set his mind to be a librarian and never looked back. “It’s been a 40-year career that I wouldn’t change for anything in the […]
You are never really finished honoring the dead. Long after they are gone, our ancestors, both actual and inherited, are given respect and devotion. In Canton, the earliest of our founding families are buried in a small cemetery on Washington Street. And over the past several months we have been honoring our pioneer families. It […]
Shelbey Wright took German for four years at Canton High School and each year her teacher was Frau Elsa Nicolovius. “Mrs. Nicolovius was an amazing teacher, so incredibly dedicated. Committed, totally committed,” said Wright, a member of the Class of 1985. “We talked a lot about current events, a lot of world events. We read […]
Henry “Hank” McDeed, the longtime CHS assistant principal whose straightforward approach and stoic yet friendly demeanor made him a favorite among students and staff, is calling it a career after 36 years in public education. A former teacher and coach in the Seekonk school system, McDeed served for four years as an assistant principal at […]
