A hard line drive that broke the hand of pitcher Greg Lyons last week ended the season for the Canton resident, who was expected to be a starting pitcher for the Canton Athletics.The team is looking to improve upon last year’s record of 10-15. The A’s were 1-5 after two weeks of play. Games have […]
Following several rainouts, the Canton American League Post 24 baseball team is beginning its season this week with several games in hopes of improving upon last year’s record of 8-14. The team is made up of high school and first-year college players from Canton and Sharon. Coached for the second year by Junior Medina, the […]
CHS senior Amarachi Njoku finished 20th among 31 shot-put competitors at the New England Track and Field Championships held Saturday, June 12, in New Britain, Connecticut. Top individuals from all six New England states competed. Njoku’s best throw was 35 feet, nine and a half inches. Rachel Aliotta of Connecticut won the event with a […]
Editor’s note: The following is a continuation of a series of occasional spotlights on Canton’s town employees, conceived as a way to honor the important work of our many public servants, a number of whom rarely, if ever, get the recognition they deserve. This week we are proud to introduce our readers to Diane Tynan, […]
Don’t tell Eleanor Durham Bowes that “you can’t go home again.” Last Tuesday the 97-year-old Canton native returned to her childhood home at 238 Sherman Street for the first time since moving away in 1935. Richard Bowes, 61, picked up his mother at her home in Plympton — she lives there with her daughter, Christine […]
The sun refused to cooperate but the 196 seniors in the Canton High School Class of 2010 shined anyway in a moving commencement ceremony held in the CHS Morse Auditorium — an initially disappointing but ultimately memorable, and “rather unique,” end to their four-year high school careers. Thursday’s graduation was the first since 2006 to […]
DID YOU KNOW… Now that we’re through boiling our precious MWRA drinking water, state authorities tell us they’re still trying to determine (if they can) what or who caused that unanticipated major water line break in Weston. It is believed that the break was caused when a giant steel ring — reportedly installed several years […]
The CHS softball team’s 2010 season came to an end last Friday following a 4-1 loss to Holliston in the preliminary round of the Division 2 south sectional tournament. The 19th-seeded Bulldogs fought hard but they were unable to find an answer for Holliston’s starting pitcher, who tossed a complete-game three hitter and struck out […]
By Dan DeBlasio Despite going 5-12 in an up-and-down regular season, the Canton High School boys’ lacrosse team qualified for this year’s MIAA state tournament, which began early last week. The Bulldogs earned the 28th and final seed in the Division 3 East bracket and faced off with fifth-seeded powerhouse Dover Sherborn. Canton, after some […]
After making it to the postseason, the CHS girls’ lacrosse team lost in the first round of tournament play to Sandwich by a slim margin, 11-10, ending the team’s storied season. “The girls were very antsy about playing,” coach Chris Murtagh said when describing the team’s mentality leading up to the game. But once the […]
