By Tony Catinella Citizen Staff After a hard-fought game, the Blue Hills football team’s quest for a championship came to an end Saturday, as the Warriors fell to the Shawsheen Tech Rams 20-6 in the Division 4 Super Bowl at Curry College. “They left everything they had on the field,” said Blue Hills head coach […]
Dec 9 2010 | Posted in
Beyond CHS,
Sports | By
Canton Citizen
The winless Canton Bulldogs made it interesting on a blustery, cold Thanksgiving Day at Stoughton High, trailing only 7-0 at halftime and surprising everyone on the first play from scrimmage with a 35-yard halfback pass from Dexter Green to Elias Camacho. But Canton coughed the ball up on the very next play — the first […]
Canton ties Stoughton in annual Powder Puff game Canton High School’s senior girls battled their Stoughton rivals to a 12-12 draw in the annual Powder Puff flag football game, held last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, at Canton’s Memorial Field. Radiya Buchanan (basketball and track) and Juliana Houston (soccer) both scored touchdowns for the Lady […]
For the past 45 years, anyone attending the American Legion Post #24 summer evening baseball games at Canton High would have seen Bob Brown — “Brownie” to all who know him — passing out programs and schedules to the fans in the stands as well as any spectators sitting in their chairs near right field. […]
Dec 2 2010 | Posted in
News,
Sports | By
Mike Berger
Below is part one in a two-part series on the history of the now-defunct Canton Airport. There are long-lost plans of men and women that, if implemented, would have changed Canton forever. The most notable of these plans was the development of the Massachusetts Air Terminal and Arena. The ambition of the men who devised […]
With the recent addition of three new members and its first-ever “youth speak out” scheduled for Friday afternoon at the library, the Canton Youth Commission is now officially back in business following years of inactivity. The mere fact that they are able to host this “speak out” – which is open to all Canton middle […]
Dec 2 2010 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Jay Turner
DID YOU KNOW… The new information sign in front of the Canton Public Library may be colorful and look nice, but some people driving by on Washington Street, even at a relatively slow speed, find it difficult to read. The messages change too often, and you either have to be a sidewalk pedestrian, or pull […]