This story originally appeared in the September 3 edition of the Citizen. “A really nice community,” is how Canton resident Sheldon Gentles describes his neighborhood of Blackman Road. Gentles said he often sees people outside with their kids and walking their dogs. “It’s definitely family friendly,” he said. Recently, Gentles took on a project to […]
At the Canton ‘Stand-in Solidarity’ rally held in early June outside Town Hall, longtime friends Amber Carrington and Tamarra Auguste decided it was their time to be heard. Neither very comfortable with public speaking, the two Canton High Class of 2016 graduates separately worked up the courage to take the microphone and, through tears, opened […]
Lemuel Fisher and Benjamin Wentworth had both served in the Revolution together. So it’s fair to say that like all veterans, they shared a common bond. After the war they both returned to Stoughton in that part which is now Canton and began to work the plow and the woodlots. In the spring of 1789 […]
The widow Mary Sullivan had experienced a truly awful year. Just months earlier her husband had died, leaving her with six mouths to feed. Sadly, two of her children also died, leaving her in a filthy tenement building with four small children and a backdrop of desperation. It was June 1914, and Boston was teeming […]
Canton High School alumni Edy Massih has spent his entire career sharing with others what he learned how to prepare during his childhood in his native Lebanon: the freshly made Lebanese food that his family ate every day. Massih has worked for others as a chef in restaurants and owned his own private chef and […]
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 is a great example of the kind of rift that divides a nation, but it is crystal clear that our nation, born […]
Every so often a mystery begins simply with a question, a curiosity. So it is no surprise that recently when a slip of paper fell from the leaves of a donated book, a flurry of questions would ensue. At the top of the paper was printed “Lines in Memory of Freddie.” What followed was a […]
Dale Rushworth, the principal clerk at the Canton Senior Center, is retiring tomorrow. She spent 22 years running the office at the Senior Center and handling the organization of transportation that allows seniors to enjoy an excursion or to pick up some groceries. “I loved my job, I loved the people, I loved working with […]
The story below appears in the Citizen’s 29th annual Salute to the Fine Arts, an 8-page special section included with this week’s print edition. This spring, CHS band/orchestra leader and music instructor Brian Thomas coordinated a day of special musical activities that memorably illustrated the power that music has to bring people together and break […]
On Pleasant Street there is a granite marker that is the dividing line between Canton and Stoughton. At 8 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, August 28, 1948, three Canton selectmen stood in the heat and haze of the morning sun. Selectman Maurice Ronayne shifted as he kicked up dust from the road. Selectman John […]
