It was a season to remember for Canton’s Margarita Delaporta and the Blue Hills Regional girls’ basketball team as the Lady Warriors racked up win after win en route to a Mayflower Conference title and a jaw-dropping record of 23-1. Until recently the girls had been chasing perfection — stringing together 23 straight victories before […]
Twenty years ago, Chris Herren was a local basketball hero with a seemingly limitless future in front of him. A three-time all-state selection for Durfee High School in Fall River, Herren became a national media darling in the early 1990s and was recruited by several of the country’s top Division 1 programs. But even as […]
It was shaping up to be their year, but in a goaltenders’ duel against their Davenport Division rivals last week, the top-seeded CHS boys’ ice hockey team came up just short, falling 2-0 to No. 4 Oliver Ames in the Division 2 south sectional semifinals. For the Bulldogs, Wednesday’s loss marked the end of an […]
A pair of zoning proposals that would have paved the way for the redevelopment of the former Plymouth Rubber property on Revere Street were officially put on hold last week after the developers determined that the project was not quite ready for the “prime time” stage of the upcoming May town meeting. In a scheduled […]
On the morning of March 4, Steven Anderson opened an email from a friend that immediately took him back to his days as an engineer for the Canton DPW in the early 1980s. In it was a link to a news story about Gina McCarthy, the former Canton health agent who, as Anderson would soon […]
Update: The No. 1 seeded CHS boys’ hockey team fell to No. 4 Oliver Ames 2-0 in the south sectional semifinals Wednesday night. The Bulldogs finish the season at 16-4-2 overall. It was a lot closer than many fans expected, but in the end the top-seeded CHS boys’ hockey team managed to take care of […]
They have been teammates and friends for almost a dozen years — going back to their earliest days in the Canton Pop Warner program — and on Wednesday, February 6, Stephen Cesso and Maurice Hurst celebrated another major milestone together when they gathered at Xaverian Brothers High School with their families for a football commitment […]
After cruising through the regular season with 16 wins in 20 games, the Canton High girls’ ice hockey team had its postseason dreams dashed at the hands of 20th seeded Tewksbury/Methuen, which shocked the Bulldogs 7-3 on their home ice last Wednesday, February 27. The loss certainly qualified as an upset — Tewksbury/Methuen (8-7-3) had […]
After years of contending with both “friendly” and “unfriendly” affordable housing projects in an effort to meet the state’s 10 percent threshold as required under Chapter 40B, the town of Canton has finally earned the right to be selective in the types of developments it approves — and officials intend to keep it that way, […]
This coming Saturday, March 9, a group of firefighters and police officers from Canton and surrounding towns will take to the ice with heavy hearts as they skate in memory of a fallen brother, CPD Officer Ralph Centeno, in the fifth annual Canton Fire/Police Charity Hockey Benefit at Metropolis Rink. This year’s event will feature […]
