Both Canton and Stoughton High head coaches were right on target in their postgame assessment of Canton’s 28-26 overtime upset of the 9-2 Black Knights on Thanksgiving Day. “You have to tip your cap to Canton,” said veteran SHS coach Greg Burke. “They played well and we didn’t do enough to slow them down. It […]
Congratulations to the Canton Bulldogs Girls U11 soccer team, which finished as division champs in the Boston Area Youth Soccer League (BAYS). The Bulldogs, led by head coach Jason Yong and assistant coach Quinn, finished with an overall record of 7-3.
Christopher Marano of Canton, a senior at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, pictured above with head coach Bob Souza, completed his final high school football season with a history-making NEPSAC Bowl Championship. Upon winning the Independent School League with an undefeated regular season (8-0), the team traveled to Avon, Connecticut to play for the New […]
Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving, and while the roots of the traditional story are well told, there are elements of the contact between the native population and the Puritans that heralded the end of a civilization. In Canton, there are abundant reminders of what once was, but could never survive. The facts are startling: Put […]
More questions than answers came out of a progress report of the South Coast Rail Project heard Tuesday night at Town Hall. The project, which will bring rail service to Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford, will originate in Boston’s South Station and travel through the Canton and Stoughton rail corridors. The same questions posed […]
Editor’s note: Below is the third in an ongoing series of articles highlighting innovative education programs that have been made possible by a grant from the Canton Alliance for Public Education (CAPE), a non-profit, community-based foundation whose mission is to “promote innovative and productive programs that challenge students and teachers to achieve their true potential.” […]
A combination of Canton and Massachusetts State Police and the Metro Area SWAT Team calmed a potentially dangerous domestic situation involving a firearm on Tuesday, November 20, at noon. Milton police alerted Canton police to a domestic disturbance in which a man allegedly pointed a gun at a woman. The woman then drove the man […]
Canton-based MatchingDonors.com was recently honored again as the “Nonprofit of Choice” by the Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills at the 16th annual Hollywood Awards Gala. MatchingDonors was chosen from over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States. “We were thrilled to be chosen this second consecutive year for this honor,” said Paul Dooley, […]
DID YOU KNOW … Tom “Red” Martin, a longtime Canton resident and founder of Cramer Productions in Norwood, was recently inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame. Martin was an All-American hockey player for Boston College and was the 1961 Walter Brown Award winner as the best player in New England and was also […]
Dear Editor: On October 2, the Community Club of Canton celebrated its 100th anniversary at Brookmeadow Country Club. I would like to thank the owners and staff of Brookmeadow for their generosity and also for doing such an outstanding job. Also, thank you to the many businesses, friends, relatives, and members of our club for […]
