The Canton High wrestling team is making its mark on the postseason under the stewardship of first-year head coach Brian Caffelle. Six members of the team qualified for the state tournament at Saturday’s sectional tournament, held at Foxboro High School. The highest finisher for CHS was senior captain Kevin Connolly, who took second place in […]
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After another cancellation last Wednesday — its third already this season — the CHS boys’ ice hockey team decided to take its frustrations out on Foxboro, pounding the Warriors into submission with a season-high 11 goals en route to an 11-0 victory at Metropolis on Saturday. It was the first double-digit goal scoring effort of the season […]
After suffering a close home loss to Foxboro on Friday, the Canton High boys’ basketball team came away with a hard-fought 63-58 win over hosting Sharon on Sunday afternoon, avenging an earlier 52-36 loss to the Eagles. The win improved Canton’s record to 5-10 while dropping Sharon’s to 8-8. The Bulldogs played well throughout the […]
DID YOU KNOW … MAC admits that some of our snowfalls are not only spectacular, but they also can (and do) cripple normal activity. Although there is a growing number of vehicles with snowplows attached to their front ends and expensive snow blowers in use, there is a serious shortage of snow shovelers to manually […]
The Canton High girls’ basketball team suffered its second straight loss of the season Friday at the hands of Foxboro 68-46. After getting blown out by Franklin last week, the Bulldogs had seven days in between games to prepare for Foxboro. Snow had postponed their Tuesday home game against Sharon, and the long layoff caused […]
Milton Zola is energetic and relishes the telling of a great tale. Sheila Zola likes to listen and enjoys reading an exciting story. Together they mesh perfectly. Milton and Sheila Zola are the Canton Citizen’s 2011 Valentine Couple of the Year. “Milton has always been very outgoing and talkative,” said Sheila, poised and ladylike, her […]
Click here for Part 2 It’s so cold in this classroom today that you could hang meat in here, but still I’m thrilled to be in this room. It’s quiet, the sun is shining in my window, and, best of all, there are no deadlines this week. I’m hoping that for a couple of weeks […]
For the first time in recent memory, the town of Canton will hold its annual election without a single contested race, after last Friday’s nomination deadline came and went without any new candidates stepping forward to challenge the incumbents. According to the town clerk’s office, the lack of challengers means that the April 5 town […]
On Thursday evening, February 3, Canton High School held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Scott Herr Memorial Fitness Center and to thank the various donors who contributed to the project. Approximately 40 people, including members of the Herr family and several of Herr’s former CHS hockey teammates, turned out for the […]
