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Doris E. Lund, 106, a 68-year resident of Canton, passed away on Sunday, May 21, at the Life Care Center of West Bridgewater. Doris was born on July 10, 1916, in Brockton, the daughter of the late ...
* Planners share first look at virtual walkthrough of new GMS ...
In their joint role as outreach workers for the town’s Department of Elder and Human Services (DEHS), Victoria DiMaria and Alexandra Benjamin are happy to share and always willing to lend a helping ...
Canton’s fallen heroes received a proper and solemn salute during Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony held at the American Legion Post 24 hall. Moved indoors due to the threat of rain, the event was led by ...
The following story originally appeared in the December 30 issue of the Citizen. One of the most wonderful things about Canton’s history is that we are a town of villages. We may not realize this ...
The retrial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman suspected in the January 2022 murder of Boston Police Officer and Canton resident John O’Keefe, will proceed next week as scheduled after the ...
On the 10th day of March 1863, nine men were granted a dispensation to organize a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Canton. These men, stalwarts of the community, began to assemble a membership ...
In a span of merely 20 years, Canton went from one of the busiest industrial communities in the commonwealth to a shuttered factory town. A small blurb in the Boston Globe in 1907 ran under the ...
The Canton Public Schools and Canton Parks & Recreation announced the temporary closure of all fields and playgrounds last week in an effort to promote social distancing and limit group gatherings.
Below are links to letters received by the Citizen pertaining to the April 8 town election. Check out this week’s print edition for a preview of the ballot, a Q&A with candidates for Select Board and ...
The following is the latest installment of True Tales from Canton’s Past by local historian George T. Comeau. Joseph Warren Revere walked across the dusty path that led from his house to the nearby ...