Marybeth Nearen, chairman of the Blue Hills Regional District School Committee, issued the following statement in response to accusations that Blue Hills has used unlicensed workers to perform work on its ongoing renovation project. The editorial referenced in Nearen’s statement was also published in the Canton Citizen on January 3. “Some time ago we received […]
Dear Editor: I request that our selectmen make a final improvement to the Reservoir Pond dam that was repaired over a period of three months last fall: Remove the plaque that was placed there — it’s an embarrassment. If you pass by the repaired dam on Pleasant Street, you’ll notice that a three-by-two-foot plaque has been […]
Editor’s note: The following op-ed was originally published in the December 8 edition of CommonWealth magazine. Click here to read the response issued by Blue Hills School Committee Chairman Marybeth Nearen. The irony shouldn’t be lost on students and staff at Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton as they watch unlicensed construction workers perform the school’s […]
Dear Editor: On Thanksgiving Day I had a medical emergency and had to be transported to Norwood Hospital, where I was admitted for a few days. The proficiency, professionalism, concern, and caring attitude that I received from the EMTs of the Canton Fire Department was absolutely outstanding and I cannot thank each of them enough. The whole episode was beyond anything I […]
By Meredith McLoughlin The New Year is approaching! For many this offers a time of reflection on the past year and an opportunity to set goals and intentions for the future. It can be a clean slate to address some of the issues we have felt encumbered by in the last year, and a time […]
Dear Editor: Dr. John Tamilio III made some spurious comments about Pope Pius XII in his sermon at the Interfaith Thanksgiving Service held at B’nai Tikvah (Canton Citizen – November 29). I was surprised that at an interfaith meeting, hopefully designed to promote harmony and unity, he would use discredited writer John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope […]
Dear Editor: I have an idea on how to improve civic engagement, and that improvement would be driven partly by a new method of communication from town hall. My idea is that given that the town administrator probably already prepares an agenda and timeline for initiatives and other foreseeable projects, it would be great if […]
Dear Editor: I support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution to create a House Select Committee for a Green New Deal in Congress. United Nations climate scientists tell us we have just 12 years to move our country off fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic climate disaster. A Green New Deal would create millions of green jobs, move our […]
To the community of Canton, who has supported us following the tragic loss of our beautiful son/brother Jimmy Paschal, we would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation. We wish to express our deep appreciation to those who have offered such kindness, support and messages of sympathy and comfort in our time of sorrow. […]
By Tonja Mettlach When I first applied to be a citizen representative on the Canton Master Plan Steering Committee, I’ll be honest, I didn’t really know what the work would involve or really what a master plan could do. But I was relatively new to the town, had a son who had just entered kindergarten […]
