With several players still nursing injuries and several others trying out new positions, the Canton High varsity field hockey team was a bit of a mystery heading into last Friday’s season opener against North Attleboro. In the end, however, the defending regional champs were simply too talented for their hosts as they dominated possession en […]
Bolstered by a strong serving game and a dominant performance by senior captain Julia Murphy, the Canton High volleyball team notched its first win of the season last week, outlasting Kelly-Rex Division powerhouse North Attleboro in Thursday’s home opener. It wasn’t the cleanest of victories, but it was impressive nonetheless as the Bulldogs took three […]
In the early spring of 2011, a few months before he was set to graduate from Canton High School, Bryan Glick tasted the bitter disappointment that accompanies a dream deferred. In Glick’s case, that dream was to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, and it had seemed well within reach just a […]
One is an Iraq War veteran turned writer/activist; the other is a line cook in a four-star restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. However, when it comes to their friendship and their shared commitment to social causes, Blanka Stratford and Katerina Tassiopoulos are just about the perfect match. The two Canton High School graduates have […]
As a professor of civil engineering technology at Wentworth Institute in Boston, Jack Duggan is constantly on the lookout for “real world” examples that he can incorporate into his courses as teaching and learning tools. So when Duggan was told about a 40-acre brownfield site that’s being targeted for redevelopment in Canton, he was immediately […]
A grassroots effort to get the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act back on the ballot via petition appears to have reached its goal, reported CPA organizer Deb Sundin on Monday. While nothing is official until certified by the town clerk, Sundin said supporters were able to collect over 950 signatures from Canton voters over the past […]
Between a recent outreach trip to Kentucky with the St. Gerard’s youth program and an impressive showing at last month’s Falmouth Sprint Triathlon, Mary Kate Morrissey has had a busy and memorable summer — and it’s not over yet. In fact, over the next 32 days, the 16-year-old Canton resident will compete in three more […]
It isn’t often that a professional symphony orchestra finds its way to the suburbs, but that has been the case in the Neponset Valley since 2007 and will continue this fall with the debut of Symphony Nova, a 65-member training orchestra featuring some of the region’s finest post-collegiate professional musicians. Formerly known as the Neponset […]
The risk level for contracting Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in the town of Canton remains at “high” and residents should continue to practice personal protection measures — including using insect repellant and staying indoors from dusk to dawn whenever possible — until further notice from the state, according to Board of Health Director John Ciccotelli. […]
After receiving numerous reports of coyote sightings and even a few close encounters throughout the spring and early summer, Canton Animal Control Officer Nadya Branca has noticed a sharp decline in such cases over the past several weeks — a trend, she said, that was not unexpected given the animal’s biological makeup. In fact, Branca […]
