With a list of past employers that includes the Beavers, BayBears, and Chukars, it isn’t any wonder that Canton native Tim Hagerty developed a fascination with “off-the-wall” baseball team names. However, not even Hagerty himself, who is the current radio voice of the Tucson Padres, could have imagined just how far this interest would take […]
After several failed attempts at rezoning the former Plymouth Rubber site off Revere Street, the site’s owner, Canton Development Properties (a subsidiary of Napleton), has agreed to spend $40,000 for an independent study of the financial, traffic, and environmental impacts involved in the development of the 40-acre property, with a goal of completing the study […]
Whenever Veterans Agent Tony Andreotti meets or visits with a World War II veteran, a part of him still sees the strapping young soldier in uniform that he remembers from his childhood in Canton. Mostly, however, Andreotti sees the veteran as he is today — a retiree, a grandfather, perhaps even a great-grandfather — and […]
A resident on Abbey Lane was given a stern warning from Fire Chief Charlie Doody and Police Chief Ken Berkowitz after the individual was caught setting off an illegal fireworks display last Tuesday evening, July 3. Both firefighters and police were called to the scene and confiscated the fireworks. Both chiefs decided to warn the […]
DID YOU KNOW … MAC congratulates Dick Staiti on his retirement from teaching at Canton High School. Dick, better known as “Doc,” spent 39 years as an educator, and 37 of these years were at Canton High School. For many years, Staiti was the CHS athletic trainer, and for the past five years he was […]
Next week my daughter Lisa will be marrying her longtime love, Matt. Steve and I are thrilled since we’ve been watching them gradually move toward this moment for three years. They are utterly in love, two parts of a whole, so there’s no problem there. The problem appeared when they asked us if they could […]
The Red Storm defeated the Teal Tigers 17-10 to win the Canton Senior League Softball championship in the program’s first season. The Storm was coached by Mike Jerrier and Paul Ezepik.
With less than a week remaining in the regular season, the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team needs to win all of its remaining five games and hope that fifth-place Medfield loses some games in order for Canton to seize the final playoff spot. As of Monday morning, July 9, Canton was tied with […]
State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Canton Fire Chief Charles Doody are pleased to announce the graduation of Keith Ryan from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s 60-day Recruit Firefighting Program on June 22 at the Department of Fire Services in Stow. “This rigorous professional training provides our newest firefighters with the basic skills to perform […]
Kevin Foley, a military veteran and fitness coach, has tacked flags from each of the five branches of the United States armed forces to one of the walls of the CrossFit HomeBase gym he opened last month, along with a poster of his business logo. There are information boards on another wall telling members what […]
