A whopping 11 public projects, many of which are “shovel ready,” will all be in line for some form of Community Preservation Act funding in the spring in what Community Preservation Committee Chairman George Comeau is calling a “banner year” for the CPA in Canton. At its meeting held last Tuesday, December 20, the eight-member […]
Blessed with considerable roster depth and some legitimate top-end talent, the CHS wrestling team enters the 2016-17 season full of excitement and with high hopes for a strong winter campaign. Already, the Bulldogs have a convincing league win under their belts — 51-27 over Oliver Ames — along with a program-best showing at the annual […]
Popular youth motivational speaker and self proclaimed “professional teenager” Mike Smith brought his message of positive thinking, passionate giving, and extraordinary living to a packed Canton High School gymnasium last Wednesday, December 14.
It once covered the original wooden dome of the Massachusetts State House and protected the hull of the nation’s most famous war ship. And now that same, good old-fashioned, American-made Revere copper could be making its way home to Canton, thanks to a partnership forged between the town’s Paul Revere Heritage Commission and Revere Copper […]
Last Tuesday evening at the Canton Public Library, a group of concerned local citizens, united by their shared values and a deep and abiding terror over a Donald Trump-led White House, gathered to discuss ways that they could support their fellow residents and help ensure that the Canton community remains “safe for diversity.” “We’re a […]
The addition of bow-and-arrow permits and an expansion into the previously off-limits area around Ponkapoag Pond in Canton are some of the major changes in store for the 2016 edition of the Blue Hills controlled deer hunt, which gets underway just before sunrise this coming Tuesday, November 29. Launched in 2015 in response to a […]
After an impressive showing against division foe Milford in last Wednesday’s Division 2 central semifinals, the Canton High girls volleyball team found itself in a familiar position on Saturday — squaring off against a highly ranked opponent on a neutral court with a sectional championship on the line. “Unfortunately,” noted head coach Pat Cawley after […]
On Saturday, November 12, while many in Canton and around the country were trying to move on from an emotionally charged and tumultuous campaign season, 16 of the town’s election workers and Canton’s four voter registrars found themselves back at town hall, reliving election night one hand-counted ballot at a time. Canton’s precinct five, it […]
Last week’s two-game postseason run for the CHS boys soccer team was a study in contrasts as the Bulldogs followed up a convincing win against No. 16 Bristol-Plymouth with an equally convincing defeat against the top-seeded, undefeated, and seemingly invincible Nauset Warriors. With the win and the loss, Canton ends its season just over .500 […]
There was a widespread feeling of shock and disappointment across Canton last Thursday as residents awoke to the news that Reebok, one of the town’s biggest and most high-profile corporate neighbors, would be departing its Royall Street headquarters for the greener — and apparently younger and trendier — pastures of Boston. Even the town’s top […]
