After two weeks of practice, CHS head football coach Jim Goff described his team as a “work in progress” as the Bulldogs prepare to play in its season opener at Weston this Saturday, September 11, at 4 p.m. Last week, the Bulldogs played Milton to an even scrimmage, with both teams managing two touchdowns on […]
Sep 9 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
The Canton Junction softball team is giving Hannington’s all it can handle as the teams entered this week tied 2-2 in the Canton Men’s Softball League’s best-of-seven championship series. Games were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, and the seventh and final game, if necessary, was scheduled for Thursday (tonight) at 6:15 p.m. at Devoll Field. […]
Sep 9 2010 | Posted in
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Sports | By
Mike Berger
Precision Speed & Strength/KT’s edged American Legion 7-5 in the clinching game of the Canton Women’s Softball League Championships last week, marking the third consecutive season that KT’s has won the title. The win also gave KT’s a perfect season at 16-0. “This year we had a very special year,” KT’s head coach Christine Wadel […]
Sep 9 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
For the second consecutive year, the Dean S. Luce Elementary School has failed to meet state performance and improvement targets on the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS test – albeit by the slimmest of margins – and must now join the list of Massachusetts schools that have been “identified for improvement” under federal […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Schools | By
Jay Turner
Joins with local partners to create care packages for troops In honor of the National Day of Service to honor and remember those lost on September 11, 2001, Life is good will galvanize volunteers and partners to assemble care packages for local troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan at the 2010 Life is good Festival […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen
It’s only a “preliminary recommendation,” but a Court Relocation Committee, formed to help the Massachusetts Court System close a reported $21 million budget gap this fiscal year, has proposed relocating a number of district courts across the state, including the shifting of Stoughton District Court’s services to courts in Dedham and Wrentham. As local law […]
Amy Sasin, a Canton native who has achieved success playing and coaching at two of the most highly-regarded softball programs in the region, is the new head softball coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Sasin served as an assistant coach at Wheaton College in Norton for three seasons, assisting in all phases of the […]
She heard stomping footsteps when there was no one upstairs; she heard music playing and other “funny sounds” when it should have otherwise been silent; she would turn on a light, only to find it mysteriously turned off a short time later; she would find doors that should be locked suddenly swung wide open. These […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Jeffrey Pickette
Despite the first three days of CHS football practice being limited because of a hard rain, several young players had solid performances in the team’s first scrimmage against Archbishop Williams last week. Canton scored two touchdowns in the game: one on an interception return by Tim Cruise and the other on a touchdown pass caught […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Sports | By
Mike Berger
Weather hampered the first few days of the Canton Men’s Softball League finals, but when the best-of-seven series got underway on Thursday, August 26, Canton Junction ran away with the first game 19-11, ending Hannington’s 23-game undefeated streak in the process. The series was due to continue Monday and Tuesday, and game four was scheduled […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Mike Berger