Dear Editor: I am writing to wholeheartedly support the following people as Trustees of the Library: Betty Chelmow, Susan Cogliano, and George Comeau. These intelligent and dedicated people have worked tirelessly for the library for decades, attending countless meetings, helping to direct policies for the library, and supporting the staff and director. It should be […]
Dear Editor: Hashtag #1440 is trending. At least in Canton, thanks to Police Chief Helena Rafferty, who has affixed this hashtag to the back of police cruisers. It refers to the number of minutes that each of us is given equally every day. And the question Chief Rafferty is asking of her officers and of […]
Dear Norfolk County Commissioners: On behalf of the Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation, I would like to very gratefully acknowledge the Norfolk County Commission’s award of $400,500 in support of the creation of the Paul Revere Museum of Discovery and Innovation in Canton. The trust is a unique, quasi-governmental entity created by special act […]
On January 7, 2023, five Memphis police officers beat Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop. He was eventually brought to the hospital where he died three days later. Most of us have seen the video, or at least parts of it, if we could stomach watching it. This was just one more in a long […]
It’s a Friday night after dinner and you’re ready to go out for the night. You take a car from Boston to a function hall in Revere. The space is beautiful — a ballroom with glass windows, hardwood floors, and a big band right in the center. To one side stand clusters of boys; on […]
Dear Editor: The Canton Fish and Game Association, a nonprofit organization, in conjunction with Vertex Tower Assets, LLC, has filed an application with the Canton Zoning Board of Appeals for a zoning variance and a special permit to construct a telecommunications base station in a residential neighborhood at the end of Nasir Ahmad Road. This […]
By Mark Porter After reading several pieces on the unfortunate situation with Canton’s teachers, I thought it might be valuable to share my perspective on the situation as someone who is currently unplugged from the current goings-on in municipal government but also someone with 12 years of municipal finance experience. First and foremost, I have […]
Dear Editor: The Galvin Middle School GSA has temporarily moved to the Makerspace at the Canton Public Library to hold our after-school meetings. We are not in our usual school classroom because of the work-to-rule action by the Canton teachers. Our GSA is a non-funded club, so our teacher is not compensated for running clubs […]
By Kitana Le-Garcia In schools, students are the ones being governed. We have to abide by the school handbook, as well as decisions made by the school administration and teachers. Almost every decision made affects us. However, in situations that involve us, we are almost always the least informed. We see our teachers stand outside […]
Dear Editor: The tactics now being employed by the Canton School Committee to create community pressure and resentment towards the Canton Teachers Association (CTA) for its perfectly legal action in strictly adhering to the existing contract is no different than the scare tactics and intimidation used by private companies to thwart and undermine unionization and […]
