Contested races for Select Board and Planning Board will headline the upcoming annual town election after the field was set on Tuesday with 12 candidates returning nomination papers for 10 open seats. In the race for the lone Select Board up for grabs, veteran incumbent John Connolly will face his first challenge in recent memory […]
After finishing with a winning record in the regular season for the first time in recent memory, the Canton High varsity wrestling team continued to show signs of improvement with an impressive showing at last weekend’s Division 2 central sectional meet held at Bellingham High School. One year after qualifying only two wrestlers for states […]
The state’s highest court on Tuesday denied an appeal by Karen Read’s legal team to have two of the charges against her dismissed on double jeopardy grounds, clearing the way for her retrial beginning April 1. Defense attorneys had made the case that Read — who has been charged but continues to proclaim her innocence […]
The league title-winning streak is likely to end at five for the CHS girls ice hockey team after the Bulldogs lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to a talented King Philip squad Saturday night at Metropolis Rink. The win for the Warriors preserved their perfect record (6-0) in Hockomock League games this season, while the Canton girls […]
Senior standout Annie McLean captured her third career individual league title while the Canton boys team continued its stranglehold over the rest of the Davenport Division in a memorable weekend for the CHS swim program. While they could not quite match the success of last year’s Bulldog squads, both the boys and the girls teams […]
Bouncing back after a tough mid-week loss to North Attleboro, the CHS wrestling team turned in what head coach Nick Matt described as a “great showing” at their annual James Peckham Invitational Tournament held this past Saturday in the Masciarelli Gym. “We finished sixth overall, with seven wrestlers placing despite no one finishing higher than […]
After an uncharacteristically slow start through the first few weeks of the season, the Canton High boys ice hockey team is officially back on track, punctuating that message with a memorable weekend sweep of the rival Franklin Panthers as part of a “Hockey Fights Cancer” fundraising initiative. “It was a great weekend,” noted head coach […]
Residents of Canton are grief stricken and utterly heartsick over the tragic deaths of two local women, Ciara (Lambkin) Sullivan and Della (Mannion) Larsen, who passed away recently within days of each other due to medical complications. Sullivan, a 2012 CHS graduate, died just two days after Christmas alongside her newborn twins, who had been […]
CHS Teams of the Year: Football & Field Hockey In the same two-month span this fall, two of Canton’s most promising varsity programs took the leap into genuine contender status, proving their mettle against some of the region’s top teams and coming within a few wins of the ultimate prize. For the field hockey team, all […]
Two dominant dual meet victories in a three-day span followed by a strong showing at the George Bossi Lowell Holiday Tournament capped off a memorable opening week for the CHS varsity wrestling team. Under the guidance of head coach and program alum Nick Matt, the Bulldogs are a team to watch this year and hope […]
