• Black Pickup Truck (BPT)

    Every Saturday Morning I make thesix mile trip to the dump and villagewhere I get paid for an hourto be a town character. I sit on the stepswith the other geezers and we countthe black… Read more


  • Canterbury’s Abiel Foster: an American Founding Father

    Abiel Foster was born in Andover, Massachusetts, on Aug. 8, 1735. His father was Captain Asa Foster, an early owner of substantial land holdings in Canterbury. Abiel came to Canterbury after graduation from Harvard in… Read more


  • More plastics now recyclable at Transfer Station

    Good news for the people of Canterbury! With the purchase of the new baler, we can now recycle more plastic at the Transfer Station. With a few exceptions, all plastics with recycle numbers 1-7 can… Read more


  • Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio kicks off Music on the Green

    On Sunday, July 7, at 4 pm, the Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio will kick off Music on the Green, an annual concert music series hosted and presented by the Canterbury Shaker Village. Jordan grew up in… Read more


  • Congratulations to Caroline Cress!

    Our belated congratulations and best wishes to Caroline Cress, who graduated with Honors from Belmont High School on Friday, June 7. Caroline’s name was inadvertently omitted from the original list of BHS graduates we published… Read more