On June 16, 1861, amidst the turmoil of the Civil War, the parish of Saint John the Evangelist was established in Canton. Throughout the next 150 years, dedicated parishioners and clergy continued the journey and handed on faith and fellowship. One hundred and fifty years later, located in the heart of downtown Canton and still […]
On Friday night, June 17, Canton Firefighter/EMT John Buckley and Police Officer Robert Zepf were both honored as the 2011 recipients of the Knights of Columbus Richard A. Stein Public Safety Awards at a special ceremony at the K of C Hall on Pleasant Street. Zepf was singled out for his quick thinking and heroic […]
The closed-door contract negotiations between the Canton Teachers Association and the School Committee spilled out into the public arena last Thursday, June 16, when an estimated 200 teachers packed the CHS Distance Learning Lab to protest the committee’s most recent contract offer while calling for an end to mediation and a return to face-to-face negotiations. […]
The School Committee plans to form an advisory panel to study whether high school graduation activities should be moved to another date and location. The advisory panel will be made up of school and town officials, teachers, former students and CHS alumni. The move comes after rain caused both this year’s and last year’s graduation […]
Selectmen reluctantly approved the water and sewer rate increases recommended last month by the Water/Sewer Rate Committee, noting that the increases were caused in part by a spike in the Mass. Water Resources Authority’s (MWRA) assessment to the town. The new rates will take effect July 1, resulting in an average annual increase of $18.12 […]
The following Canton High School student-athletes were named to the Hockomock League All-Star team for the spring 2011 season: Boys’ tennis: Viboosh Chandrasekar Girls’ tennis: Erika Nannery Boys’ track: Jon Vaughn Girls’ track: Lauren Berman, Chidimma Nwankwo, Vicky Tondre Boys’ lacrosse: Matt Malloy Girls’ lacrosse: Sarah Healey Baseball: Matt Bernstein See next week’s Canton Citizen […]
With improved weather, the Canton A’s raised their record to 3-5 and are now sixth in the Cranberry League baseball standings. The week ended on a high note when first-year A’s player Chuck Erickson clubbed a 350-foot grand slam over Memorial Field’s right field fence to give the A’s a come-from-behind, 4-3 win over Plymouth […]
Although the summer baseball season started off strong for the Canton American Legion Post 24 team — with two sparkling wins over Brookline and Foxboro — the young team hit a few bumps in the road with losses to Walpole (18-2) and Norwood (12-1), considered the two best teams in District 6 West. And despite […]
DID YOU KNOW … There’s a big change happening at the controversial Judge Rotenberg Center on Turnpike Street (Route 138). Their founding executive director, Dr. Matthew Israel, has resigned after leading the center for over 40 years. His resignation reportedly was to settle any and all pending legal charges against him for allegedly interfering with […]
I couldn’t stop laughing. Steve called out from the living room wanting to know what was so funny. All I could do was point to the article in Sunday’s Boston Globe about a new book by Adam Mansbach aimed at sleep deprived parents called, “Go the F**k to Sleep.” Although it looks deceptively like a […]
