After enduring a recent slump, the CHS girls’ tennis team rebounded last week with wins over Milford and Oliver Ames, putting the team’s record back above .500 and back on track to qualify for the state tournament. Last Monday’s match at Milford saw some lineup changes that paid huge dividends for the Bulldogs. At first […]
A 24-year-old Stoughton man was arraigned from his hospital bed at Boston Medical Center on Monday on charges stemming from a one-car crash on Bolivar Street late Friday night that killed his passenger and friend, Evan Bard, 20, of Agawam. Sean Jackman, a resident of Howland Street in Stoughton, was charged with motor vehicle homicide, […]
At a recent meeting at Canton High School, Canton Association of Business and Industry board member Sue Korycansky (left) and CABI Secretary Kristin Draper (right) awarded Principal Derek Folan a donation for the drug awareness program sponsored on March 27 at the high school. The school had invited Chris Herren, a former NBA basketball player, […]
Dear Editor: With the help of Troop 77 scouts and scouters along with members of the community at large, I was able to execute my Eagle project at the DPW garage last summer. The Eagle project consisted of painting a significant number of fire hydrants off of main roads and painting the salt shed. The […]
Marilyn Rodman, 79, of Canton, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and well-known philanthropist, passed away peacefully on May 13, 2013, at Orchard Cove in Canton. She was the beloved wife of Don Rodman with whom she shared over 60 years of marriage. Born in the Roxbury section of Boston, Marilyn was a longtime resident of […]
Marilyn Rodman, a longtime Canton School Committee member, dedicated philanthropist, and a passionate supporter of the performing arts, passed away on Monday, May 13, following a lengthy illness. A well-known and beloved figure in the Canton community, Rodman served the Canton Public Schools in an official capacity for 22 years and also worked tirelessly behind […]
DID YOU KNOW … The town of Canton may become only the second community in Massachusetts to raise the legal age to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21. As first reported by the Canton Citizen last month, the Canton Board of Health verbally agreed to increase the age after hearing about […]
Town meeting voters at Monday’s opening session overwhelmingly approved a transfer of $1.36 million from Canton’s free cash reserves to quicken the renovation of the previously purchased Knights of Columbus building on Pleasant Street into a fully operational senior center, perhaps as soon as next spring. The transfer augments last year’s town meeting appropriation along […]
The first session of the 2013 annual town meeting adjourned a little after 10:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, with most of the 41-article warrant completed. Only the main budget article for FY14, plus three zoning articles concerning a proposed Senior Housing Overlay District (SHOD) on Route 138 and a few other articles remained. Selectmen […]
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges has renewed Canton High School’s 10-year accreditation, although much of the work has only just begun, according to CHS Principal Derek Folan. Folan informed the School Committee on May 9 that NEASC has delivered its 79-page document and in the next 10 days will send a list […]
