By the time this column is published, the Special Town Meeting will have occurred and hopefully is complete. I have no idea how it will all turn out. What I do know is that we all have to figure out a way to move forward. As signs, flyers and advertisements came out in advance of […]
Dear Editor: On Monday, November 20, the town of Canton will hold a Special Town Meeting in the Canton High School auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. This STM was initiated by voters in our community. I strongly encourage you to carefully review the Recommendations of the Finance Committee to the Voters of Canton, informally referred […]
Canton is a town that has been serious about helping residents avoid becoming victims of scams for many years. Those efforts took another step forward recently with the formation of the Canton Anti-Scam Task Force. The Canton Anti-Scam Task Force is a new working group put together by Diane Tynan, director of the Canton Department […]
The Canton Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee (CDEI) would like to hold space in our hearts and minds for all those who are grieving, scared and suffering from the continued terrorist attacks on the country of Israel by Hamas. These acts of terrorism are unimaginably brutal. We fully support Israel’s right to exist in their […]
Dear Editor: I learned years ago that the Canton Citizen is as much about Canton as it is of Canton. It’s a fabric and product of the town with lifelong, close ties to many inside and outside of Town Hall. The latest example of that was the absence of reporting on what’s being called the […]
Dear Editor: From 2002 to 2017, I had the privilege of serving on the Canton Planning Board. I can’t begin to imagine the number of public hearings I sat through relative to zoning articles, subdivisions, special permits, Chapter 40B (affordable housing), and scenic ways. Many of these hearings were extremely contentious, with citizens showing up […]
Recently a gentleman who writes about the history of the governors of South Dakota got curious about what the latest internet sensation — ChatGPT — might say about the oldest and youngest governors of South Dakota. Tony Venhuizen of the SoDak Governors blog published what he got back from ChatGPT regarding South Dakota’s youngest governor, […]
The following letter was sent from Ruth A. Bourquin, a senior attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts, to Select Board Chairman Tom Theodore. *** I write on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc. to share our concern about the suspension of public comment periods at meetings of the Select Board. It […]
During the public comment period at the September 12 meeting of the Canton Select Board, the board voted to abruptly adjourn the meeting, cutting off residents who had planned to speak after a couple of the speakers had gone over the allotted three-minute timeframe. To me, it was an astounding turn of events as the […]
Dear Editor: I was dismayed, to say the least, to read the article informing the random citizens of Canton that the public comment period is being suspended at Select Board meetings. I was dismayed for two reasons: Firstly, the Select Board has opted to hide from public ire to the greatest extent possible. It is […]
