Canton voters stayed largely blue while the majority of the country went decidedly red in a historic 2024 election night on Tuesday that saw Republicans wrest control from the Democrats and deliver Donald Trump back to the White House. With his projected victory, Trump is slated to become just the second U.S. President, after Grover […]
Firefighters from Canton and several surrounding communities were still on scene as of Tuesday battling a major brush fire that broke out near Reservoir Pond on Sunday, October 27. The fast-growing fire, which originated in the fields behind the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children, spread from four to 31 acres overnight into Monday, prompting a […]
The wins keep on coming for the Canton High varsity field hockey team, which improved to a Davenport Division-best 12-1 with a victory last Thursday on the road against rival Foxboro. Always a formidable foe regardless of their position in the standings, the Warriors came into the contest with an 8-2-1 mark in league games […]
It’s been 18 weeks and counting since Jeanne Quinn last faced her son’s killer in a Natick hearing room, and the uncertainty surrounding his future whereabouts is almost more than she can bear. Not even the news of her cancer returning, or the impending surgery she’s facing, have been enough to erase the doubts about […]
What began as routine meeting to review prepared responses to questions raised by prospective auditing firms quickly devolved into chaos and finger pointing as members of the town’s Police Audit Procurement Committee clashed with the audience and one another throughout the duration of a nearly three-hour meeting last week at Town Hall. Over the course […]
After rolling through the regular season last fall en route to the Division 2 state final, the returning CHS varsity volleyball players got their first taste of adversity in the early part of the 2024 campaign with a five-set home loss last week to highly ranked Attleboro. But befitting of a Pat Cawley-coached squad, the […]
A two-year quest to secure justice for a deceased Canton woman and her unborn baby took a stunning turn last week when federal prosecutors confirmed what many close to her had long suspected — that 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore did not die by suicide as state and local authorities had concluded but instead was brutally murdered […]
Under cloudy skies and at times a light drizzle, more than 11,000 runners — including 82 from Canton — powered their way to the finish line at the 52nd annual ASICS Falmouth Road Race on Sunday, August 18. Runners and walkers from 45 states and 12 countries ventured to the Cape this year to experience […]
After three seasons of nonstop winning as a member of one of the most successful dynasties in American sports, Kyshani Dummott, for the first time in her professional career, felt the full agony of defeat as her Boston Renegades fell to the St. Louis Slam in Sunday’s Women’s Football Alliance (WFA) title game. “This one […]
In the wake of Publisher Beth Erickson’s decision to institute a pause on letters related to the Karen Read trial and in an attempt to address accusations of bias from a segment of our readership, the Canton Citizen recently undertook an internal review of op-ed content that has appeared in our pages over the past […]
