This week is an important one for Canton High School football as CHS Athletic Director Danny Erickson will meet with head football coach Dave Bohane to talk about how the ongoing mosquito threat will impact the timing of evening practices and Friday night games. State health officials recently raised the town’s risk level for Eastern […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team honored four departing players and celebrated the team’s 2012 achievements at a recent awards dinner held at the Canton Town Club. The team finished the season at 10-12, good for sixth place in the District 6 West Division standings and just seven points shy of the final […]
The stage is set, the curtain is poised to rise and the cast is honed. It’s opening night for the First Parish Players’ debut summer production, Urinetown: The Musical. Performances are tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at First Parish Unitarian-Universalist in the upper parish hall, 1508 Washington Street […]
Take advantage of the Canton Water Department’s Appliance Rebate Program during the Massachusetts tax-free weekend this Saturday and Sunday, August 11 and 12. Get $100 for replacing a toilet that uses 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) or more with a WaterSense-labeled toilet that uses 1.28 gpf or less. The replacement toilet must be on the […]
DID YOU KNOW … Canton Development Properties, a subsidiary of the Napleton Company of Illinois, will fund a $40,000 independent study on the 42-acre property of the former Plymouth Rubber Company on Revere Street. The study will evaluate traffic, environmental issues, impact on our schools, and the financial impact on the town of Canton. This […]
Dear Editor: As the parent of two children in the Canton elementary school system and as a professional health coach, I am extremely concerned by the attitude of members of the School Committee regarding the implementation of the new Department of Public Health rules regarding school snacks. I believe that the School Committee is missing […]
Donald J. Keefe, 82, of Canton, died Wednesday morning, August 1, 2012, at Epoch of Sharon after a lengthy illness. A longtime Canton resident, he was born in the Roxbury section of Boston to the late John and Isabelle (McLaughlin) Keefe. Mr. Keefe was raised and educated in Canton, graduating from Canton High School where […]
On Wednesday, July 11, the Post 24 American Legion Band performed a free concert on the lawn in front of Canton High School — one in a series hosted by the Recreation Department throughout the summer. Due to the increased risk of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), the remaining concerts (August 8 & 22) will be held indoors […]
One of the things that we tend to forget here in Canton is the fact that at one point we were once a small rural farming community. Basic human needs were met, in simpler times, through the use of the resources that existed within a small radius. The trees that were cut down to build […]
It isn’t often that a professional symphony orchestra finds its way to the suburbs, but that has been the case in the Neponset Valley since 2007 and will continue this fall with the debut of Symphony Nova, a 65-member training orchestra featuring some of the region’s finest post-collegiate professional musicians. Formerly known as the Neponset […]
