After seven years of mostly unsuccessful legal challenges and appeals, the town of Canton has reluctantly conceded defeat in the case of the Roseland Property Company and its bid to build a 220-unit affordable housing development on 81 acres near the Randolph town line. It was only a few months ago that Selectman Victor Del […]
After 42 years with the Canton Fire Department, firefighter/EMT Herb “Butch” King, otherwise known as the father of Canton’s Emergency Medical Services program, is getting ready to retire from his post. But King’s commitment to teaching CPR will continue, and he is currently coordinating with Fire Chief Charlie Doody to offer a monthly CPR course […]
Growing up in Canton, the Very Reverend Bryan K. Parrish attended weekly Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church and did not go into St. Gerard Majella Church until he was a seminarian. But he is making up for lost time by saying weekly Mass as a visiting priest at St. Gerard’s this summer. Father […]
It’s a cool, late autumn afternoon in 1988 with the wind brisk and the skies threatening rain when a tall, white-haired woman struts across Memorial Field carrying a fold-up chair, a blanket, an umbrella and a reporter’s notebook. Players running through warm-up drills shout, “Hello, Peg!” and she smiles and waves as she makes her […]
The mile-a-minute weed, a “fast growing prickly vine” with green triangular leaves, also known as “devil’s tail,” has been spotted in Milton, Littleton, western Massachusetts and on Cape Cod, but the largest outbreak in the state is right here in Canton, according to a report on WBZ-TV. While the name itself is a hyperbole — […]
Hannington’s was still undefeated at 14-0 heading into the final week of the Canton Men’s Softball League regular season, but Cincinnati Suds still has the most wins at 15-2. Tied for third place in the league with a 12-6 record are Lewis Bar and Grill and Canton Junction. Golden China is in fifth place at […]
DID YOU KNOW … For the second year in a row, the Blue Hills Trailside Museum will have no money in the state budget; however, officials say they will be able to keep the state-owned and privately managed museum going with the help of volunteers, private money, program fees, and by an anticipated capital grant […]
Canton parent Jill Stevens will fill the 10-month vacancy on the School Committee left after Tim Brooks resigned for work related reasons. Stevens was appointed to the committee at the July 13 Board of Selectmen meeting among a pool of eight potential candidates. Canton government procedures state that when such a vacancy arises, it is […]
While town officials continue to do “everything in their power” to hammer out a solution with the owners of Reservoir Pond over needed repairs to the Pleasant Street dam, those who make use of the pond as a recreational source are beginning to see the summer of 2010 for what it has become: a lost […]
Tall and brawny, Tommy MacDonald is about the last guy one would expect to be wearing makeup, but now more than halfway through taping the first season of his upcoming Public Television woodworking series, the Canton native is getting used to it. While he said it was uncomfortable the first couple of times he had […]
