The School Committee voted last week to charge a late fee of $50 to parents who register their children for bus transportation after mid June. The purpose of the fee, according to school business manager Ken Leon, is to speed up parents’ decision making and allow the school department more time to plan bus routes [...]
U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch easily carried his home district, including Canton, in Tuesday’s special state primary for U.S. Senate, but it was not enough to overtake his congressional colleague Ed Markey, who cruised to the Democratic nomination with 57 percent of the vote. Markey, a 36-year veteran of Congress and a resident of Malden, carried [...]
Canton-based Journey Forward, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bettering the lives of people with spinal cord injuries through exercise, will host its inaugural Golf Classic on Monday, May 20, at Brookmeadow Country Club. Foursomes are $700 and include four tickets to the pre-tournament reception, along with four player bags. Sponsorships range from $300 to $15,000. [...]
State Senator Brian A. Joyce has announced that the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) has extended the period to comment on the proposed 40B development on Brush Hill Road, located on the Milton-Canton line. The public will now have until June 9 to outline their concerns. The developer of the property, Texas-based Mill Creek Residential Trust, is seeking [...]
Editor’s note: Police Chief Ken Berkowitz submitted the following summary of the Canton Police Department’s involvement in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, including the subsequent manhunt for the second suspect on Friday, April 19, in Watertown. The town of Canton is part of a law enforcement continuum called the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council. [...]
What has historic homes, sprawling corporate headquarters, a mishmash of zoning districts, and vacancies all over? The answer, from a local perspective at least, is the Route 138 corridor in Canton — a busy stretch of roadway that has long been the target of commercial growth and revitalization, albeit with only mixed success to date. [...]
Canton selectmen like many of the benefits of a proposed senior housing facility on Turnpike Street at the site of the AA Will Sand and Gravel pit. However, they are requesting more information from the developer — including a formula for how they arrived at a $300,000 cash contribution to the town in lieu of [...]
A Middleboro man was arrested last week on burglary charges after police responded to a call from a York Street resident and found the suspect inside the home. The resident, about to enter her driveway, saw the man on her porch and went to a neighbor’s house to call police. Police responded and arrested James [...]
What started out as a day of celebration and joy quickly turned to horror on the streets of Boston as two powerful bombs, reportedly made out of pressure cookers and laced with nails, ball bearings and other types of shrapnel, exploded in quick succession near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing [...]
Lauren Cortizo, a 2009 CHS graduate who was running the marathon on behalf of domestic violence victims, was also part of the group that was stopped less than a mile from the finish line when the bombs exploded. Cortizo, who was recently profiled in the Citizen, was stopped by police and redirected, first toward the [...]
