Senator Brian A. Joyce is pleased to announce that he will hold office hours in Canton on Thursday, September 8, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Salah room at Canton Town Hall. “I encourage all interested constituents to attend my district office hours,” Joyce said. “This is an opportunity for my staff and me […]
The town of Canton’s 9/11 Memorial Committee will hold a remembrance ceremony and dedication at 8:45 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, located at Canton Corner Cemetery, on Sunday, September 11. In addition to honoring all those who died in New York, Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania, a memorial will be dedicated to Michael Uliano, 42, […]
This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on September 1, 2011. For more than a week the warnings had been coming, forecasting the hurricane that just passed us this weekend. For many of our generation, we shrug at the warnings — perhaps buy extra water or batteries, but do we really take the forecasters […]
Tropical Storm Irene hit Canton hard Sunday morning, knocking out power to 18 percent of Canton homes and causing at least one minor injury as well as a few instances of significant damage from fallen trees and limbs. Several major roads were blocked on Sunday and Monday as town workers removed fallen trees and utility […]
With the aid of a $500 grant from the Paul Matthews Foundation and an enthusiastic endorsement from the Canton School Committee, CHS adjustment counselor Donna Bauman is moving forward with plans to beautify the high school’s five courtyards. Bauman, who presented the idea to the School Committee last week, learned of the grant award on […]
It will be an interesting year for CHS Athletic Director Danny Erickson as he works with School Committee members to revise the athletic budget and awaits the ramifications of the Hockomock League adding two more members — Taunton and Milford — beginning next year (2012) for all sports. When the school budget debates and discussions […]
Her T-shirt proclaims her a star, and on September 24, that is precisely what 8-year-old Lucy Falcone will be, as an image of her and her grandfather, Bruce Beckham, will appear on the MTV jumbo plasma screen in Times Square as part of a special video presentation promoting the “value, acceptance, and inclusion of people […]
American Legion beat the Fire Department 16-9 to win the Canton Men’s Over-30 Softball League championship. Two weeks ago, Schneiders — the No. 1 seed and two-time defending champs — were bounced from the playoffs after falling to both the Legion (19-18) and the Fire Department (16-13) in consecutive games, thus paving the way for […]
DID YOU KNOW … At over 22 percent, Canton has one of the highest percentages in the south shore of condos, apartments, and multi-family homes. Stoughton is close to 25 percent, while Sharon is less than 10 percent. The state average is 11.8 percent. Oklahoma now has the country’s highest monthly average temperature ever recorded. […]
Dear Editor: Hats off to Tanya Willow on her debut column, “Outside the Whale,” in last week’s Canton Citizen. Bold and inspiring, her words are truly refreshing in today’s society in which ennui, inertia and self-preservation oftentimes prevail. I recently saw on television the results of a poll in which the majority of college-age Americans […]
