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The Canton Community Preservation Committee (CCPC) has finalized its spending recommendations for fiscal year 2020, and headlining the list are a number of recreation and open space projects — including a long-proposed destination slide structure at the Luce School and new interpretive signage at the Paul Revere Heritage Site — along with a good-faith gesture […]
Both CHS swim teams got off to a strong start to the new year with an exciting double win over division foe Sharon last week at the Randolph High School pool. The Bulldogs are hosting all home meets in Randolph this season as Blue Hills Regional School undergoes a major renovation project. On Friday, January […]
Jan 12 2019 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
Children don’t disappear. Somebody always knows. Jeanne Quinn’s words cut like a razor in the opening moments of the teaser trailer for Dead of Winter, a new documentary-style television series that is set to premiere globally next Wednesday evening on Investigation Discovery (ID). The series, produced by Red Marble Media, will focus each episode on […]
Jan 12 2019 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner
The 2018 fall sports season gave Bulldog fans plenty of thrills and a whole lot to cheer about as CHS teams combined to win a whopping 67 percent of their games (74-35-7) while hoisting three new Hockomock championship banners and garnering 17 league all-star nods. But it wasn’t just the current crop of CHS stars […]
Jan 11 2019 | Posted in
Beyond CHS,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
Update: The CHS girls hockey team held on to beat Medfield/Norton 3-2 in overtime in the opening round of the Canton Ice House Invitational on Thursday. The unbeaten lady Bulldogs will now battle Westwood for the tournament title on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. With two more convincing wins last week, the CHS varsity girls hockey […]
Dec 28 2018 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
For the fourth consecutive season, the Canton High boys ice hockey team are the Gormley Cup champions after knocking off both Plymouth teams within a three-day span last week at Gallo Arena in Bourne. Billed as the earliest high school hockey tournament in Massachusetts, the season-opening competition honors longtime educator and coach Jim Gormley, who […]
Dec 22 2018 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
The Canton housing market could soon see an influx of new inventory with several major condominium developments expected to break ground in 2019 after lengthy delays. Three in particular — at the Paul Revere Heritage site, at the former Emerson and Cuming property on Washington Street, and at the Connor’s Wayside building on Route 138 […]
Nov 30 2018 | Posted in
Business | By
Jay Turner
As she drove down the quarter-mile entrance to Paramount Ranch Park in the Santa Monica Mountains last Friday, Michele Fitzwilliam looked on with a mix of amazement and horror at the sheer devastation that nature had wrought. On a stretch of roadway where hundreds of trees once stood, there was “nothing but black and silver […]
Nov 22 2018 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner
An unforgettable 2018 CHS volleyball season ended in heartbreak for the Bulldogs on Saturday with a five-set loss to a talented and gritty Groton-Dunstable team in the Division 2 central sectional championship game at Wellesley High School. Seeded first overall and coming off an exciting semifinal win over No. 5 Medway a few days prior, […]
Nov 17 2018 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
Six months after being rejected by the ZBA in its bid to qualify as a nursing or convalescent home under the zoning bylaw, the proponents of a proposed 48-bed substance abuse detoxification facility on Turnpike Street have gone back to the zoning board — this time with a new legal argument and hopes of a […]
Nov 17 2018 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Jay Turner