In the spirit of spreading “good vibes” and raising as much money as possible for kids in need, Boston-based apparel company Life is good decided to go all-out with its annual music festival this year, partnering with Superfly Productions of Bonnaroo fame to transform it into an event that people would circle on their calendars […]
He’s been pegged as a “shooting star,” an energetic, results-driven leader who went from being a student teacher to being the head of a school district in a little less than two decades’ time. But after years of riding the fast track, Jeff Granatino, Canton’s new superintendent of schools, is now ready to settle into […]
Conventional wisdom might be to shun hitchhiking, but Ted Okun and Michelle Kaplan shunned conventional wisdom, accepting rides from strangers to get from San Francisco to Seattle during their five-month journey on the West Coast. “We could have taken a bus,” Okun, 25, admitted, “but we just wanted to see if we could get a […]
Weather permitting, undefeated Hannington’s will face Canton Junction in the best-of-seven series finals of the Canton Men’s Softball League this week. The series was due to begin earlier this week with games on Monday and Tuesday and will resume tonight at Devoll Field at 6:15 p.m. Game four is scheduled for Monday, August 30, at […]
Precision Speed & Strength/KT’s finished undefeated with a perfect 12-0 record this season to earn the top seed in the Canton Women’s Softball League playoffs. Grabbing the second seed was American Legion, which finished in a tie for second place at 10-2. The other second-place team, Pete’s Place/Paula’s Package Store (10-2), was given the third […]
Schneiders and Schneiders became the town champs in the Canton Over-30 Softball League for the second year in a row after they defeated American Legion 17-11 on Sunday morning, August 22. Schneiders finished the regular season at 10-4 and went undefeated in the playoffs. American Legion went 11-3 in the regular season and 2-2 in […]
DID YOU KNOW … Despite all the big headlines and negative publicity directed at the Judge Rotenberg Center on Turnpike Street, Senator Brian A. Joyce’s annual bill to handcuff the school appears to be going nowhere — again; and it appears there isn’t enough support in the House of Representatives to adopt the measure and send […]
The Hockomock League will have a distinctly new look this year when sports get underway next month, with a new school, Attleboro, coming into the fold, along with the debut of two five-team divisions based on enrollment figures. The new format will impact most varsity sports at Canton High School; however, the football schedule will […]
After 43 years of service to the town, Buddy Fallon, the superintendent of buildings and grounds, retired July 23. The Canton that Fallon experienced when he first began working for the tree department in June 1967 was different from the town that residents know today. Open space was abundant in the sparsely populated town of […]
A generation of Canton kids have come to know him as their soccer coach and as a proud father of three sons, but scan the newspaper archives for some of the region’s most high profile criminal cases, and chances are that William “Bill” Sullivan will have starred in at least a few of them. Coach […]
