The Canton Citizen, a sponsor of the annual Canton Writes contest, will once again publish the winning entries as space permits. The selection below, by Charlotte Clyve, was the winning entry in the high school short story category. Unknown Past By Charlotte Clyve My backyard is surrounded by forest. Not the kind that anyone would […]
The Canton Citizen, a sponsor of the annual Canton Writes contest, will once again publish the winning entries as space permits. The selection below, by Abby Nelson, was the winning entry in the adult nonfiction category. POP! By Abby Nelson Rebellion is perhaps the single most attractive thing to an eighth grader. I’ve always been […]
Superintendent-Director Jill Rossetti would like to congratulate the Class of 2023 upon their graduation from Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton last week. The ceremony was held on Tuesday evening, June 6, on the school’s athletic field in front of friends, family, school administrators, and special guests. The ceremony began with the Pledge of […]
Thomas Wesner, associate professor in the Business Law and Society Department at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and director of the Carroll School’s Catalyst Program, is this year’s winner of two prestigious teaching awards: the Boston College Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year Award and the Ever to Excel Rev. John R. Trzaska, […]
By State Representative Bill Galvin (D-Canton), 6th Norfolk District We are now five months into the new, two-year legislative session. I filed 35 bills at the start of the session that deal with housing, opioid addiction, healthcare, public safety, and local issues. These bills were recently assigned to committee and are awaiting a public hearing, […]
John Connolly, chair of the Canton Select Board, read the following statement on behalf of the town at the conclusion of Tuesday night’s meeting: Over the past several days, we have received inquiries concerning new reports related to the ongoing criminal case dealing with the death of John O’Keefe. The investigation into the matter was […]
Submitted by Patricia McDermott, Planning Board Chair For more than 20 years, the zoning that created the Canton Center Economic Opportunity District (CCEOD) has been in place in the downtown area. The goal of this special zoning district was to encourage mixed use, manageable growth, and support reasonable expansion. The underlying commitment was intended […]
With a wave of high-profile banking failures sending shockwaves across the global financial system and stoking fears of an incoming recession, the Citizen reached out to two local bank CEO’s to see how they are faring amid the crisis and to determine whether local depositors have any reason to be alarmed. Nick Maffeo, President & […]
By Bernard Mendillo We live in the United States of America — where the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. Perhaps “guarantee” is too strong of a word to use in today’s America. We are a nation divided — more so than we have been since the Civil War. Most of the freedoms we take […]
It was January 2010, and I was halfway through my senior year at Canton High. My now-teenaged nephew Matthew was just a few months old, and my mom and I were at my oldest brother’s former home in Virginia meeting my nephew for the first time. After he went down for a nap, I checked my flip phone and read an ominous message from my friend Sam:
