DID YOU KNOW… Dave Bohane, who has led the middle school football program for the past two years, has been named the new varsity football coach at Canton High. MAC thinks Bohane sees an abundance of talent in the GMS program and has high hopes for the future. Article 37 in the upcoming Annual Town […]
Mary M. Horigan (Hagerty), 86, formerly of Canton and Milton, passed away March 19 at the Harrington House in Walpole after a brief illness. She has been a resident of New Pond Village in Walpole since 2004. Mary was the daughter of the late Andrew C. and Margaret (Welch) Hagerty. She was born and raised […]
Charles Owens cannot help but brim with confidence and optimism as he ponders the future of alternative energy in Canton. To Owens, one of four members of Canton’s crack energy committee, conveniently dubbed the “Green Team,” the impending amendments to the town’s already cutting-edge energy policy are simply an act of common sense. “Why are […]
Nineteen people die every day in the United States waiting for a kidney transplant. The team at Canton-based MatchingDonors.com is working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. On January 20, members of MatchingDonors.com, including Joel Pratt of Canton, and of Pratt Realtors in Canton, and Walter A. Towner II of Smithfield, Rhode Island, were […]
Faced with a structural deficit and fresh out of one-time revenue sources to help soften the blow, members of the Canton School Committee delivered a painful warning to the community last week in what they hoped were crystal-clear terms: Budget cuts are coming, and this time, they will be unavoidable. While cuts have been a […]
On Wednesday, March 2, the third grade from the Dean S. Luce School took a field trip to the Norwood Town Hall, which houses a rare instrument called a carillon. A carillon is a series of bells that are housed in the tower of a large building. There are only 146 carillons in the United […]
Canton resident Joanne Murphy with Irish Cultural Centre Chairman Mike O’Connor celebrating her win of $500 from the Luck of the Irish 50/50 Raffle at the ICC St. Patrick’s Day Community Open House. The ICC wraps up its 17 Days of March celebration on Friday (March 18) with The Joshua Tree (U2 cover band) live […]
It was a simple relaxation tip that has propelled Canton High School senior Jon Vaughn to become one of New England’s best indoor track hurdlers. Ben Mattson, who serves as the girls’ head coach and who coaches both the boys and girls hurdlers, told Vaughn to forget having all eyes on him in the middle […]
CHS high jumper Matt Sidney finished off his spectacular indoor track season at the national high school championship meet in a tie for 16th place with a six-foot, three-and-a-half-inch jump. This was the second consecutive year Sidney competed in the nationals. Last year he tied for 14th at six feet, two and a quarter inches. […]
Selectmen are reserved and at first glance reluctant to support the second of two Green Team-supported town meeting articles that would establish new construction codes to meet energy efficiency standards for newly constructed homes, extensively rehabilitated homes, and new commercial construction. Selectmen did favor the Green Team’s zoning article that proposes an expansion of the […]
