For the second week in a row, the Canton High boys and girls tennis teams produced nearly identical results, going 1-2 with a big win over Taunton sandwiched between losses to Mansfield and Foxboro. On the girls’ side, there were plenty of encouraging signs as the lady Bulldogs easily defeated Taunton 4-1 and then took […]
Update: With a win over Attleboro on Wednesday, the CHS boys lacrosse team clinched the 2015 Davenport Division championship. The Bulldogs finished with a 6-3 league record and will wrap up the regular season with four straight nonleague games. Only two weeks removed from upsetting highly ranked Foxboro, the CHS boys lacrosse team made the […]
After many years of starring on the gridiron, Canton native and Wesleyan University freshman Elias Camacho recently decided to test the waters on a different kind of stage, joining a student-run theater group for their recent production of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really, Really. Camacho, in his first-ever live performance, tackled the challenging role of Davis, […]
Maryanne M. Fitzgerald, 57, of Canton, formerly of Wakefield and Haverhill, died Saturday, May 9, 2015, following a long illness. Loving daughter of Rita A. Simms of Canton and the late Lawrence O. Simms, formerly of Canton. Loving mother of Daniel J. Fitzgerald of NH. Loving sister of Lawrence M. Simms and his wife, Bette, […]
Dear Editor: Bud Herzog was my father and you are reading this sentence because of him. I remember using an early internet application in 1994. My father sat beside me in front of a VAX terminal in the basement of the Clark University library, and he was shocked at my typing back and forth with college […]
The following is an excerpt from “I Am Guilty,” the second in a two-part story about Jack Battus, one of Canton’s most notorious murderers. Battus sensed the worse and picked up a rough stone, weighing about 15 pounds
Michael P. Curran, Esq., 82, passed away peacefully Monday, May 11, in his home with his family at his side after a long illness. He is survived by his beloved wife, Marilyn, married 56 ½ years; his children, Stephen of Canton, Maurice and his wife, Sue, of Upper Saddle River, NJ; Alison and her husband, […]
After a year on the U.S. film festival circuit, Raising Matty Christian, the multi-award-winning documentary directed by Christian de Rezendes of Breaking Branches Pictures, will be participating in the Doc Corner of the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival in France, one of the world’s most prestigious film events. As part of the Cannes Doc Corner, Raising Matty […]
A clear two-thirds majority of more than 600 voters who packed the CHS auditorium Monday night offered their enthusiastic approval for the Plymouth Rubber redevelopment project — a historic action that Town Moderator Alan Hines said will “certainly
Canton police responded to a disturbance at the Galvin Middle School on Monday, May 11, around 1 p.m. A 14-year-old male student will be summoned to face charges of carrying a dangerous weapon on school grounds, malicious destruction of property over $250, and disorderly conduct. Police said a search of his knapsack turned up an […]
