By Andrew Staiti I’ve got to admit, the shooting at the Tops Supermarket in Buffalo really threw me for a loop. As someone who grew up in the Columbine era of school shootings becoming the horrifying, depressing norm that they are today, I can say without hesitation that I’ve become desensitized to random acts of […]
Joseph A. “Joe” DeFelice, author of the long-running “Man About Canton” column, a recreational trailblazer and a local townie icon, passed away Monday at home surrounded by his loving family. One of the most prolific newspaper columnists in the entire country, DeFelice had written weekly for nearly 52 years until a terminal diagnosis forced him […]
The FBI Boston Division’s Child Exploitation-Human Trafficking Task Force is warning parents and caregivers about an increase in incidents involving sextortion of young children. The FBI is receiving an increasing number of reports of adults posing as young girls coercing young boys through social media to produce sexual images and videos and then extorting money […]
On the first warm day of spring, the day when half of New York wears puff jackets and the other dons tank tops, I went for a run. I ran past my old apartment, turned onto a path by the river, and veered back into the city, finally stopping to investigate a kind of commotion […]
In February, the Boston Herald reported that the town of Tewksbury had lost $100,000 in a phishing scam. According to the Herald, the Tewksbury town manager said an employee had received a seemingly legitimate email from a regular vendor seeking payment via wire transfer. Apparently the payment request was not red-flagged as “unusual” because Tewksbury […]
Often we do not see change happening right in front of us. For example, we do not see our children growing day to day or minute to minute. Instead, one day we wake up and they have grown, almost as if it happened instantly. They are suddenly taller and outgrowing their clothes — one day […]
The note below is from our beloved outreach worker, Robin Tobin, who is stepping down after 11 years and will be missed dearly. Dear Friends of the Canton Senior Center, I write this note with happy tears as farewells are bittersweet chapters in our lives. I have made the decision to resign from my role […]
Tomorrow morning at St. Mary’s Cemetery, the sound of “Taps” will ring through the air as Anthony Andreotti, a beloved local figure and hero if there ever was one, receives his final military honors.
CantonWrites, the town-wide writing contest, once again invites everyone in Canton to sharpen their pencils, dust off their typewriters, or boot up their word processors and become the authors they are meant to be. The contest consists of four age groups: elementary, middle school, high school, and adult. Authors must live in Canton and may […]
Two years ago this month the world as we knew it came to a screeching halt. At work we often refer to it as the “before times.” The exact date when that happened was a little different for everyone. I remember attending a meeting (in person!) on March 10, 2020, and we all were talking […]
