DID YOU KNOW … The annual town meeting is being held on Monday, May 13, and Canton seniors need your help and support. They need your vote so they can renovate the old Knights of Columbus building at 500 Pleasant Street into a new senior center that they desperately need. MAC has been closely following […]
Dear Editor: As a Boston Marathon runner who did not get to finish, I consider myself lucky. I wasn’t feeling well and was way behind my projected four-hour time. But I was fortunate in more ways than one on Marathon Monday. Due to my slower time I was able to better experience and take in […]
A group of siblings and friends held a bake sale last week to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy. They baked all day Thursday and sold all day Friday, raising $423. The group included Rose, Nikki and Allie Gefteas, Catherine and Lizzy Leonetti, Nikki Wright, Drew Giglio and Meghan Winkler. Others […]
Editor’s note: Police Chief Ken Berkowitz submitted the following summary of the Canton Police Department’s involvement in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, including the subsequent manhunt for the second suspect on Friday, April 19, in Watertown. The town of Canton is part of a law enforcement continuum called the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council. […]
What has historic homes, sprawling corporate headquarters, a mishmash of zoning districts, and vacancies all over? The answer, from a local perspective at least, is the Route 138 corridor in Canton — a busy stretch of roadway that has long been the target of commercial growth and revitalization, albeit with only mixed success to date. […]
Canton selectmen like many of the benefits of a proposed senior housing facility on Turnpike Street at the site of the AA Will Sand and Gravel pit. However, they are requesting more information from the developer — including a formula for how they arrived at a $300,000 cash contribution to the town in lieu of […]
A Middleboro man was arrested last week on burglary charges after police responded to a call from a York Street resident and found the suspect inside the home. The resident, about to enter her driveway, saw the man on her porch and went to a neighbor’s house to call police. Police responded and arrested James […]
After an 0-6 start to the spring season, Jimmy Fitzgerald and the rest of the Bulldog baseball team will look to turn things around with games this week against division foes Sharon, Foxboro and Stoughton.
Canton Deputy Police Chief Helena Findlen received the Irish American Police Officers Association Humanitarian Award at the 14th annual IAPOA awards dinner held in Quincy on Friday, April 5. Findlen was recognized for her extraordinary efforts on behalf of Cops for Kids with Cancer, a local nonprofit organization, as well as her work on many other […]
On Sunday, April 7, Girl Scouts from Canton and Stoughton came together for an international festival in the gymnasium at St. John the Evangelist Church. Hosted by Girl Scout troops 73403 and 74663, the festival is held each year to commemorate World Thinking Day, a day when all scouts learn about Girl Scouts and Girl […]
