By Tom Birmingham, Chair, Canton Energy Advisory Committee As the name Canton Electricity Choice implies, Canton residents and businesses will soon have a new choice to make. This choice involves whether to: 1. Continue to buy your electricity from Eversource, Canton’s local electric distribution company 2. Purchase electricity from a third-party supplier, as some of […]
Brookwood Community Farm, a nonprofit working farm located on Blue Hill River Road in Canton, recently wrapped up a very successful year with a great tour of the farm attended by DCR Commissioner Brian Arrigo along with Brookwood board members, board chair Vivien Morris and food access manager Vickey Siggers from Mattapan Food and Fitness […]
Dear Editor: On Monday, November 20, the town of Canton will hold a Special Town Meeting in the Canton High School auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. This STM was initiated by voters in our community. I strongly encourage you to carefully review the Recommendations of the Finance Committee to the Voters of Canton, informally referred […]
By Bernard Mendillo, Special to the Citizen Follow the Yellow Brick Road — sometimes referred to as Washington Street — to Canton High School and see the Drama Club’s dazzling production of The Wizard of Oz, which premieres next Friday evening, November 17, in the CHS auditorium. “This faithful adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s famous […]
The Canton Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee (CDEI) would like to hold space in our hearts and minds for all those who are grieving, scared and suffering from the continued terrorist attacks on the country of Israel by Hamas. These acts of terrorism are unimaginably brutal. We fully support Israel’s right to exist in their […]
Dear Editor: I learned years ago that the Canton Citizen is as much about Canton as it is of Canton. It’s a fabric and product of the town with lifelong, close ties to many inside and outside of Town Hall. The latest example of that was the absence of reporting on what’s being called the […]
Submitted by the Canton Robodogs The Canton High School robotics team invites the community to its annual Electronics Waste (E-Waste) fundraiser on Sunday, October 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the CHS parking lot behind the Rodman building. At the event, which runs concurrently with the Canton Farmers Market, robotics team members will […]
Dear Editor: From 2002 to 2017, I had the privilege of serving on the Canton Planning Board. I can’t begin to imagine the number of public hearings I sat through relative to zoning articles, subdivisions, special permits, Chapter 40B (affordable housing), and scenic ways. Many of these hearings were extremely contentious, with citizens showing up […]
The following letter was sent from Ruth A. Bourquin, a senior attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts, to Select Board Chairman Tom Theodore. *** I write on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc. to share our concern about the suspension of public comment periods at meetings of the Select Board. It […]
Dear Editor: I was dismayed, to say the least, to read the article informing the random citizens of Canton that the public comment period is being suspended at Select Board meetings. I was dismayed for two reasons: Firstly, the Select Board has opted to hide from public ire to the greatest extent possible. It is […]
