The Boston Globe has launched a new e-book from renowned Globe columnist, author and Canton resident Beverly Beckham. The book, entitled The Best of Beverly Beckham: I was the sun, the kids were my planets and other reflections from the Globe columnist, was released last month and reflects on Beckham’s life experiences, focusing on her […]
On Monday, August 12, the Canton Board of Health will hold a public hearing to discuss and vote on revisions to the town’s current regulation prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors. The proposed revisions include raising the age for individuals who wish to purchase cigarettes, cigars, or other tobacco products in the town […]
As a senior communications consultant with nearly two decades in the public relations field, Canton resident Liza Colburn considers it a must that she believes what her clients are selling. So when Hawaii’s leading solar energy firm, RevoluSun, came calling after expanding to two locations in Massachusetts, Colburn went right to work learning as much […]
Canton Police are still searching for a man who is believed to be responsible for a rash of armed robberies at several Dunkin Donuts locations in Canton and surrounding communities. The most recent robbery occurred last Wednesday evening, July 24, at 600 Neponset Street — the same location that was robbed a month earlier, according […]
The State Ethics Commission has launched a formal investigation into the business dealings of former Canton Conservation Agent Robert Murphy that focuses on his relationship to an engineering firm that provided paid services to several Canton projects while he was still employed by the town, according to a copy of a summons obtained by the […]
After a record-long confirmation battle that included an assortment of stall tactics and 1,000-plus questions from concerned Republican leaders, former Canton health agent Gina McCarthy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week as the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Nominated by President Barack Obama on March 4, McCarthy, the EPA’s air chief […]
Canton High School senior Chris Sullivan captured his third consecutive gold medal in wrestling, winning the 138-pound class with a 4-0 record. Sullivan’s teammate and classmate, Quinn Merrigan, also shined at the games, winning silver in the 145-pound class. Both wrestlers are coming off dominant individual seasons with the Bulldogs, highlighted by Merrigan’s first-place finish […]
Nearly a year after launching its third major rezoning effort only to watch it be soundly rejected by Canton town officials, the owner of the Plymouth Rubber site on Revere Street, Napleton subsidiary Canton Holdings LLC, is abandoning its dream of building a housing development and will instead proceed under the current industrial zoning. Exactly […]
An explosive mix of competing interests collided at a zoning board meeting late last month as neighbors angrily protested a local developer’s proposal to raze and rebuild an existing two-family home on Chapman Street. The June 27 hearing, which continues next Thursday evening at Town Hall, attracted dozens of residents from the Culloden Drive subdivision, […]
The Canton Interchange Project, a major reconfiguration of the Interstate-95/Interstate-93 interchange, along with the addition of travel lanes on I-95 and associated roadway improvements on Dedham Street, could be completed years ahead of schedule pending the approval of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) at a hearing later this month. The multi-phase, $238 million […]
