
New parents Nahtoreya Coleman and Nathan Ellison of Attleboro are, in most ways, like new parents everywhere. Happy and proud of their newborn son, they are learning to cope with the hour-to-hour needs of a tiny baby who wants his bottles served up quickly and is quite capable of expressing disapproval if there are delays. […]
Mar 20 2025 | Posted in
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Candace Paris

Meg Goldstein, Canton’s new director of public health, has been on the job for about three months. Hired by the Board of Health with the idea that she would beef up outreach efforts, Goldstein has been taking that assignment seriously since assuming the role in mid-November. Already very familiar with the office from her previous […]
Feb 28 2025 | Posted in
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Candace Paris

What happens when a trio of superhero sugar cookies work together to make the world a sweeter place? Chris and Stephanie Sabatino know the answer. The couple has created a superhero comic book for children using their own super talents. Their new book The Delicious Adventures of the Super Cookie Squad combines Chris’ talents as […]
Jan 31 2025 | Posted in
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Mary Ann Price

This story originally appeared in the Canton Citizen on July 23, 2020 and was reprinted last month following the inauguration of Donald Trump. History takes a very long view of conflicts, and as divided as the country is today, this is not the first time that deep divisions split our society. Of course, the Civil War […]

Residents of Canton are grief stricken and utterly heartsick over the tragic deaths of two local women, Ciara (Lambkin) Sullivan and Della (Mannion) Larsen, who passed away recently within days of each other due to medical complications. Sullivan, a 2012 CHS graduate, died just two days after Christmas alongside her newborn twins, who had been […]
Jan 10 2025 | Posted in
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Jay Turner

One night in the summer of 2014 before she started seventh grade at the Galvin Middle School, Olivia Chambers walked outside to ask her older brother a question. He was adding citronella oil to a tabletop firepot and it unexpectedly burst into flames as Chambers drew near. Her brother pushed her away and smothered the […]
Dec 27 2024 | Posted in
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Mary Ann Price

When Mike Mariano was a seventh grader at the Galvin Middle School, he joined his classmates for a field trip to Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. Once there, he ran to the top of the mountain and was the first in the class to get there. “I thought it was a race,” he said. Exhausted, […]
Nov 22 2024 | Posted in
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Mary Ann Price

Students and staff at the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children (PRHC) as well as members of the public gathered on Thursday, October 24, for the unveiling of the mural “Flight of Dreams.” The mural is the idea and product of art students at PRHC, who worked with teacher Ned Hall to create and design two […]
Nov 8 2024 | Posted in
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Mary Ann Price

Jonathan Arata finds that being a Freemason is very rewarding. In the six years since he joined the Blue Hill Masonic Lodge, he has developed strong relationships with his fellow Freemasons, or “brothers,” as he says, and has risen in the ranks all the way up to Master, the top position. His inauguration to the […]
Nov 1 2024 | Posted in
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Candace Paris

It’s been 18 weeks and counting since Jeanne Quinn last faced her son’s killer in a Natick hearing room, and the uncertainty surrounding his future whereabouts is almost more than she can bear. Not even the news of her cancer returning, or the impending surgery she’s facing, have been enough to erase the doubts about […]
Oct 11 2024 | Posted in
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Jay Turner