Brightview Senior Living in Canton hosted a special birthday celebration for Morris “Morry” Casso, who turned 107 years young on Sunday, January 28. A native of Roxbury, Morry is a proud U.S. Army veteran of World War II, joining an elite specialist group that was sent to Lee De Forest Laboratories in Chicago to learn […]
Tom Birmingham, head of the town’s Energy Advisory Committee, informed the Select Board Tuesday night that the state Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has accepted Canton’s application for its electrical aggregation program, called Canton Electricity Choice. Utilized by more than 150 Massachusetts communities, municipal aggregation programs enable cities and towns to purchase electricity supply on […]
In the wake of another collision involving a semi-trailer truck, the town’s Traffic Committee will be recommending to the Select Board that the Bolivar Street Bridge be painted and more visible signs be posted well ahead of the bridge. Traffic Committee members took up the matter at their most recent meeting on Monday, January 22. […]
There are only a few tickets remaining for the first of two comedy shows scheduled for Saturday evening, February 24, at the Canton Public Library as part of the Friends of the Library’s second annual Comedy Night Fundraiser. This year there will be two shows — one at 7 p.m. and another at 9 p.m. […]
In a span of just hours on Thursday, January 4, Canton emergency responders were alerted to two bomb threats — one received by Temple Beth David shortly after 8 a.m. and another reported by the Norfolk Probate Court on Shawmut Road at 10:30 a.m. Deputy Police Chief Patty Sherrill said the threats were communicated by […]
The Canton Public Schools is moving ahead with its newly designed Student Information System (SIS) with the earliest implementation beginning as soon as March for Canton High School course selections. The new fully customized, web-based system, which will run on the PowerSchool cloud-based software program, will be used across the district by students, staff and […]
The Cornerstone at Canton assisted living community celebrated the 100th birthday of resident and World War II veteran Duncan Macleod with a special “rolling rally” drive-by
Canton police officers joined a search for three armed suspects near the Blue Hills reservation in Milton and Canton last Wednesday following a reported carjacking that took place one day earlier in Randolph. The victim reported he had been carjacked by three people, one armed with a gun and another with a knife. The vehicle […]
Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty told Select Board members at a recent capital budget meeting that the CPD plans to outfit five of its officers with body cameras as part of a pilot program that is due to launch early this year. Rafferty said after the meeting that she would release more details when the […]
In a series of momentous votes taken at a joint meeting on Wednesday, December 20, school and community leaders gave the greenlight to a new grade reconfiguration plan while offering wholehearted support to building a full auditorium at the Galvin Middle School. The new configuration calls for fifth graders to join grades 6-8 at a […]
