No one was injured and an investigation is continuing into a tractor trailer fire that occurred on Monday, February 17, around 7:30 p.m. at Abbott-Avon Packaging, located at 10 Campanelli Circle near the Canton SportsPlex. Nine firefighters, three engines, and Fire Chief Charlie Doody responded to the scene. Doody earlier this week termed the origin […]
Leave the winter blues behind and join the fun at this year’s Blue Hills Winter Fest on Tuesday, February 25, from 5-8 p.m. at Blue Hills Ski Area. Come for a night hike with a naturalist or get your exercise on the slopes with downhill skiing. There will be plenty of indoor fun, too. Adults and children […]
The Dean S. Luce Elementary School fourth and fifth graders proudly presented Robin Hood & Friends, directed by Cheryl Miles, on Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8, in the CHS auditorium. See this week’s Canton Citizen to view the complete cast list and additional photos. Michelle Stark photos
St. John the Evangelist School in Canton joined Catholic schools from around the country last week in observance of Catholic Schools Week, an annual celebration of Catholic education held the last week in January. The week kicked off with a mass on Sunday followed by an open house and registration for the 2014-15 school year. […]
Avenging an earlier loss to rival Sharon, the Canton High boys’ basketball team won its sixth straight game Friday night with an impressive and dominating 97-71 win over the first-place Eagles (12-5) in the CHS gym. With the victory, the Bulldogs reached the all-important 10-win mark, thus assuring themselves of a spot in the upcoming […]
The CHS boys’ ice hockey team, one of the hottest programs in all of Division 2 south, wrapped up yet another Davenport Division title with a pair of convincing wins over King Philip and Mansfield last week. The Bulldogs, who also clinched a postseason berth with the victory over KP, are now a perfect 6-0 […]
The CHS indoor track team will send 10 individual qualifiers and several relay participants to the Division 4 Indoor Track & Field Championship meet scheduled for this Sunday, February 16, at 1 p.m. at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. Some of the athletes have qualified for more than one running event but will have […]
Amid the recent surge in fatal drug overdoses, the public pronouncement of a “full-blown heroin crisis” by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, and the media’s ongoing fascination with the death of Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, families that have already lost a loved one to addiction are left to quietly ponder how it all went wrong […]
Canton resident Michael Tamasi, CEO of AccuRounds, was invited to the White House on Friday, January 31, to take part in an event convened by President Barack Obama to discuss strategies for helping our nation’s nearly 4 million long-term unemployed get back into the labor market. Tamasi, who got a chance to voice his concerns […]
The Canton Police Department’s recent public plea for information on a pair of suspected credit card thieves led to the arrest of two men in Mattapan earlier this week. Police had taken to Facebook on January 27 in hopes of identifying the individuals, who had allegedly stolen several credit cards from Canton and used them […]
