Cynthia Harkness has always loved the outdoors and being near the water. As a child she fished in the Merrimack River and at Hampton and Salisbury beaches, doing a lot of spin fishing. When her now grown sons were younger, she wanted them to enjoy the outdoors and the water just as she did. Harkness […]
Despite a driving, cold rain, about 90 CHS students assembled in front of the Rodman building last Wednesday around noon to pour frigid water over their heads. The event was an Ice Bucket Challenge, following the well-established pattern of raising money for and spreading awareness about ALS. Coordinated by CHS career counselor and teacher Ed […]
The community of Fountain of Grace Church on Turnpike Street has long been committed to helping church goers as well as community members in need of support. Since June of 2022, the church has partnered with Food for Free in Somerville in order to provide fresh and shelf-stable food for as many people as possible […]
Blue Hills Trailside Museum is thrilled to announce that another North American river otter has joined its wildlife team at the popular nature destination on the Canton/Milton line. “Ginger,” who was born in February 2022 at Stone Zoo in Stoneham, is settling right in at the Trailside Museum, which is operated by Mass Audubon in […]
Linda and John Dobbyn are proof that opposites not only attract, but can keep that attraction going strong for more than half a century. The 2024 Canton Citizen Valentine’s Day couple, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last June, laugh often and find true joy in spending time together. In 1969 when Linda was a […]
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 […]
