After a heartbreaking loss last Wednesday to first-place Oliver Ames, the Canton High boys’ varsity soccer team was able to rebound on Friday with a 1-0 road victory over Sharon, improving to 7-6-2 heading into the final week of the regular season. It was the Bulldogs’ second win in as many tries against their Davenport […]
For the second consecutive year, the CHS golf team has won the Hockomock League championship, beating several other teams that had surpassed them in the standings. “Considering the league has added three more teams, including two in the large school division and two in the small school division, this is quite an achievement,” said head […]
Since I began writing these stories over two years ago, what strikes me is how much of what I write about is simply gone and vanished from our town. Really, in over 300 years of recorded history and almost 12,000 years of inhabitation, we have lost so much of our heritage over time. Many people […]
After more than two years of planning and development, the Canton landfill solar facility — a project that has been both lauded as a “win-win” by town officials and skewered as a “ticking time bomb” by the local electrical workers’ union — is now officially up and running, according to project developer Southern Sky Renewable […]
Preliminary data from the latest round of MCAS testing revealed many positive findings for Canton; however, there is still room for improvement, according to School Superintendent Jeff Granatino. “In many areas we shined, and in many areas we were above the state standard,” Granatino said at last week’s School Committee meeting. “But we are now […]
Selectmen reluctantly re-instated the Washington Street detour beginning today, Thursday, October 25, for up to 10 days to complete sidewalk and final paving from Washington Street near Adrienne Drive to St. Gerard’s Church. The detour will force traffic traveling from Canton Center to turn up Randolph Street to Route 138 and traffic coming from Route […]
DID YOU KNOW … There are three binding statewide ballot questions that will appear on the November 6 ballot. The first is the availability of motor vehicle repair information. A yes vote would allow vehicle owners and independent repair facilities in Massachusetts access to the same vehicle diagnostic and repair information that the manufacturers, dealers, […]
Philistine: a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values It was a beautiful fall day, so we decided to go for a ride. I had read that a new exhibit had opened at the deCordova museum in Lincoln. Though Steve is not a great museum aficionado, he […]
Dear Editor: Believing that only an informed electorate can govern themselves properly, the Canton Council on Aging sponsored a forum on the all-important last event of our lives: the act of dying. Dr. Marcia Angell, who teaches medical ethics at Harvard School of Medicine and is a leading proponent of this bill, says that the […]
The last year of high school can be a stressful one for students. In addition to their studies, seniors need to fill out college applications and include a personal statement — the essay. Writing the essay can be the most challenging part of applying for university admission as teenagers concentrate on finding the right words […]
