The School Committee and Board of Selectmen will make a joint selection to fill the unexpired term of School Committee member Liz Salisbury, who informed the committee on June 12 that she will resign from her position. Salisbury’s family is relocating to the Pittsburgh area because her husband, Dean, has found a new position there. […]
Canton High School science department chair Richard Staiti is retiring from not just one job, but two. In addition to his teaching position, Staiti has been the athletic trainer at the school for many years. He is a certified emergency medical technician (EMT), and many faculty members greet him as “Doc” when he walks down […]
Over 200 seniors from the Canton High School class of 2012 received their diplomas during the school’s graduation ceremony last Friday, June 8, in the CHS gymnasium. For more on the graduation, see the six-page graduation supplement in this week’s issue of the Citizen, featuring then and now photos, a complete class list, scholarship winners, […]
Back in 2005, Linda Berman’s fifth grade Girl Scout troop put together time capsules as they said goodbye to elementary school and were about to begin their middle school journey. Berman promised the girls that she would get them back together to open their time capsules around the time they graduated from high school. Seven years […]
When Canton Selectman Sal Salvatori read in the Canton Citizen about 10-year-old Griffin Lincoln’s efforts to raise $3,000 to help kids with cancer by participating in the One Mission Kid’s Cancer Buzz-Off, he gave Lincoln a challenge: “Raise $5,000 and you can shave my head!” With less than two weeks before the Buzz-Off, the JFK […]
It wasn’t on the lush, green turf of Memorial Field as many had hoped for, but it was every bit as special and heartfelt, as the 213 members of the Canton High School class of 2012 bid farewell — but not goodbye — to their school, community, and each other in a moving commencement ceremony […]
If the world is indeed set to expire on December 21, 2012 as some have predicted, then Canton rock trio Metaphor for Everything is ready to go out with a bang, having already written the perfect anthem for the occasion. The band’s latest single, “2012,” tackles the impending apocalypse head-on, satirically dismissing concerns such as […]
Sunday morning offered ideal running conditions with perfect weather and clear blue skies as nearly 1,400 participants of all ages turned out at the Village Shoppes to run, walk, or jog the first-ever Halfway 5K Road
The current owner of Reservoir Pond, the Illinois-based Napleton Company, has reached an agreement with town officials and the state Office of Dam Safety on technical repairs for the Pleasant Street dam, and repairs are expected to get underway by early July. The project will take four to six weeks, and there may be times […]
Life is good, a Boston-based lifestyle brand committed to spreading the power of optimism and helping kids in need through its products and its nonprofit Playmakers initiative, has announced the lineup for the 2012 Life is good Festival, to be held September 22-23 at Prowse Farm in Canton. Headliners Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Sara Bareilles, Michael […]
