It was another excellent weekend for the CHS indoor track relay teams at Sunday’s state relay finals. The girls finished fifth overall with strong performances in the sprint relay, the 200-meter relay and the shot put. For the boys’ team, the sprint medley and the high jumpers had strong showings. The highest finish was […]
The CHS boys’ basketball team had a very exciting week, staging an exciting 51-48 win over rival Stoughton and nearly upsetting a very strong North Attleboro team before falling 48-46. The 6-12 Bulldogs have two games left in the season and will play King Philip away Friday and end the regular season at home Monday […]
Already riding a three-game winning streak and still in contention for the Hockomock title, the CHS boys’ varsity hockey team stepped hard on the gas pedal last week with three more wins in six days, beating nonleague Pembroke, King Philip and Oliver Ames to improve to 12-2-1 overall (9-1-1 league). The Bulldogs are now 6-0 […]
It may have been Senior Night at Stoughton High last Friday night, but the CHS girls’ varsity basketball team was most concerned with having to defend a Stoughton sophomore. When Canton played Stoughton on January 8, Chrystal Holland, the leading scorer for the Black Knights, dropped 20 points on the Bulldogs, leading Stoughton to a […]
The Canton High School varsity girls’ hockey team added two more wins this week, 8-2 over Dover-Sherborn and 7-1 against Westwood. Coach Kelly Rider described the game against Dover-Sherborn as one of the best complete games all season. “I think this can be attributed to the hard work and effort the girls put in earlier […]
By Kathy Anderson When Gaetane and Alain Jean stepped off the plane at Logan Airport from Haiti on January 26, they were experiencing a conflux of emotions ranging from relief and joy to sadness and residual fear. Sixteen-year-old Gaetane and her 10-year-old brother Alain were on their way home from school when the devastating earthquake […]
Frank and Peg LaBollita open their hearts to all who enter their home. The Gaelic sign above their kitchen door – Céad Míle Fáilte, which means “a hundred thousand welcomes” — reflects their hospitality. With love and mutual respect, Frank and Peg have devoted their lives to each other since June 1962. Frank likes to […]
Three Canton elementary schools will benefit from the generosity of the Sons of the American Legion (SAL), who recently presented digital cameras, photo printers and paper to the principals of the Luce, Kennedy, and Hansen elementary schools. Dick Lane, Dave Milligan and Barry Schneider made the official donation to Kennedy principal Jen Henderson, Luce principal […]
For the past couple of months until his tragic death in an automobile accident in Indiana last weekend, Brendan Burke, the son of National Hockey League executive Brian Burke, became the public face of homosexuality in hockey — in part by default but also in many ways by his own choosing. Armed with the undying […]
Food and wine have a symbiotic relationship (heck, there’s a whole magazine, Food & Wine, dedicated to the subject). Each complements the other and makes it stronger, like the bird in the Hippo’s mouth, but in a much more appetizing, less-saliva kinda way. A juicy steak with a big California Cab; Sauvignon Blanc and goat […]
