Update: Aaron Mack scored four touchdowns to lead the Black Knights past Canton 27-7 in the annual Thanksgiving Day finale at Memorial Field. The Bulldogs’ lone touchdown came on a 21-yard pass from Anthony Bires to Elias Camacho in the third quarter. Canton finishes the season with a 3-7 overall record. The Canton High Bulldog […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
This Thanksgiving Day, Canton High School senior Anthony Bires has a lot to be happy and thankful for. He will be calling signals at quarterback — his dream position — for his hometown team on the biggest stage of the season. But beyond football, life has been a challenge for Anthony and his family. Two […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
An office of the Shaw Group, a well respected global engineering firm, will move 800 employees to the One Beacon Building at 150 Royall Street in Canton. Most of the employees will move from the Stoughton and Cambridge offices in 2012. The nearly 190,000-square-foot space will be leased after One Beacon downsized its operations. One […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Mike Berger
Last week at the Canton Public Library, a group of Canton children listened to Marsha Wright of the Canton/Dedham/Sharon Community Partnership for Children tell the story of America’s White Table by Margaret Theis Raven, after which they decorated their own white table to honor veterans on Veterans Day. The white table originated during the Vietnam […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Blue Hills Regional Technical School is accepting applications for house construction or large addition projects for the next school year. Residents or land owners within the nine district towns are eligible to submit applications no later than January 15, 2012. Applicants must be a resident or land owner for a minimum of five years in […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Despite dominating long stretches of the game, the CHS girls’ soccer team came up just short in the Division 2 state finals, falling 1-0 to Auburn High School on Saturday at Worcester State University. It was the first time in school history that a soccer team had made it to the state championship game. The […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
Mrs. McKay’s fifth grade class at St. John the Evangelist School organized several activities to honor our veterans and active duty military personnel on Veterans Day. (Photo 1) PreK teacher Meghan Hartford has a brother on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. The fifth graders collected items from all the students and packed and […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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This past Friday and Saturday night, the Canton High drama club presented the musical Once Upon a Mattress in the CHS Morse Auditorium. All of the students did an excellent job, not only the actors, but the musicians and technical crew who worked behind the scenes to ensure the sound, lights, and sets all performed […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Paul Burega
They say the third time’s a charm, but that was simply not the case for the CHS field hockey team as the Bulldogs fell to eventual state champion Watertown last Tuesday in the Division 2 Eastern Mass. finals for the third year in a row. Had they won, the Canton girls would have gone on […]
Nov 23 2011 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
DID YOU KNOW … Canton will face Stoughton in the classic Thanksgiving Day matchup tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Memorial Field in Canton. Each year, MAC publishes some facts, records, and trivia from the Canton-Stoughton rivalry that started in 1926. So here we go for this year: The Canton-Stoughton rivalry is 85 years of football […]