Fresh off capturing back-to-back Hockomock League championships, the Canton High boys’ soccer team essentially picked up right where it left off, with a 3-1 win at Duxbury last Saturday to kickoff the 2010 season. “Anytime you go to Duxbury and come away with a win, it’s really a good result,” head coach Danny Erickson said. […]
After finishing last season with a 17-2-1 record, the CHS girls’ soccer team entered unfamiliar territory Saturday, losing its first game 4-1 to Duxbury. Paul Turner, a first-year coach at CHS, noted that Duxbury, in the midst of a peak season with many club soccer and college-bound players, would be one of the Canton’s hardest […]
The Canton High boys’ cross country team finished third in a nine-team competition, with four of the top 40 runners in the 3.1-mile Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Cross Country Invitational race, held at Oak Bluffs on September 11. Senior Jimmy Paschal finished sixth overall and was Canton’s top runner, finishing in 17:11.52 — seconds […]
The CHS girls’ cross country team started the season with a seventh-place finish in the Hockomock League Jamboree, followed by a fifth-place finish out of 12 teams in the Martha’s Vineyard Invitational. Sophomore Kelsey Sayers was Canton’s top runner at the Vineyard meet, as she finished 15th out of 100 runners to earn a medal. […]
DID YOU KNOW… There is no question. It costs a lot of money to build or renovate a school building today, as evidenced by our recent Canton High School renovation, which cost Canton taxpayers over $40 million. In recent years, school construction costs have been getting out of hand. For instance, the most expensive public high […]
Pack, ship, give away. Forty years dwindled down to four words. This summer Mom and I went from room to room, closet to closet, drawer to drawer repeating that mantra, answering three seemingly simple questions that embraced our hardest choices. How do you decide which one of your 40 years to pack, ship, or give […]
With abounding spirit and magnetic energy, the upperclassmen at Canton High welcomed freshmen into their school with an orientation day unlike any other. Rolling out a figurative red carpet, 60 juniors and seniors formed two lines and cheered as freshmen entered the gym like rock stars and superheroes. “I liked how they all clapped; it […]
It may no longer be known as ICONS, but with top-flight entertainment, games, and a host of other activities, the Irish Cultural Centre’s annual Irish Festival remains an iconic event, featuring “the best of Irish culture.” The 20th annual festival begins next Friday evening at 6 p.m., kicking off a three-day Irish extravaganza from September […]
After spending most of the summer getting to know the voters in the other nine communities in the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, state senate hopeful Bob Burr thought it would be fitting to spend the final week before the September 14 primary campaigning in the place where it all began: his hometown of Canton. […]
St. Louis Blues executive vice president and general manager Doug Armstrong announced last week that the club has named Canton native Dan Brooks as an assistant coach for the Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. Brooks begins his professional coaching career with the Rivermen after 14 seasons as an assistant coach at both […]
