In this two-part installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past, local historian George T. Comeau recounts the February 1895 murder of John Fleming, a young man of just 18 who was fatally shot in a downtown Canton shop. The series was originally published in the Citizen in early 2020 and was reprinted over the past […]
Eileen DeRoma was hoping to give birth without any fanfare to a healthy “1-2-3-1-2-3” baby when she went to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on December 31, 2023. Instead, her daughter Emily Margaret DeRoma arrived at exactly 12 a.m.
Longtime baseball fans easily remember Wade Boggs, who spent the majority of his professional career with the Red Sox after a stint playing in Bristol, Connecticut
Amanda Callahan has truly mastered two of the elements: wind and water. Her expertise in sailing has enabled her to compete at the highest levels. Sailing in the Sunfish class, she represented Team USA in the Pan American Games in Chile in November. More recently, she raced in the Sunfish World Championship, held in Miami […]
This story originally appeared in the October 12 edition of the Canton Citizen. When Jeanne Quinn first learned that her cat Two Sox, a female rescue with distinct white-capped front paws, would need to have her leg amputated, her immediate reaction was twofold: ‘I can’t afford this. But I’ll find a way.’ Not wanting her […]
Canton High School alum Dr. Kristin Stockus Noone recently celebrated the release of her first book, Leading with Vision, Integrity, and Inspiration, in which she draws on her strong background as a business leader with years of experience in the field of education. A professor at Quincy College, Noone combines both worlds in her book, […]
On a bright Friday afternoon on May 19, 1922, Atherton Dunbar returned to his laboratory in the basement of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at Harvard University. It was just after lunch, and the budding scientist was working on a very important project in the cryogenic engineering lab that was both of military and industrial importance. […]
Chad Patterson started playing golf during the COVID-19 pandemic, going to driving ranges to improve his skills as well as playing rounds in his free time. A 2004 graduate of Canton High School, he participated in basketball, football, and track and field at CHS. Patterson’s father is an avid golfer who introduced his son to […]
The Canton Historical Society has been preserving the history and heritage of Canton for over a century. The photographic holdings are extensive and begin with some of the earliest views of the town in the 1800s through the era of Kodak slides and polaroid prints. The ongoing cataloging project has scanned and identified over 4,700 […]
Some new residents moved in this spring at the Waterfall Hills apartment complex off Bolivar Street. They have no lease nor do they pay any rent in the usual sense despite living in specialized housing. That’s because these new Cantonites are honeybees. Part of a new initiative by Waterfall Hills’ parent company, Chestnut Hill Realty […]
