It just wasn’t in the cards. For CHS volleyball coach Pat Cawley and her talented Bulldogs squad, that was the harsh reality after Saturday night’s season-ending, 3-0 loss to top-seeded Westboro in the Division 2 central sectional finals. Playing in their third sectional title game in four seasons and full of confidence after back-to-back shutout […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
Canton resident Christopher Murray, a senior captain and starting midfielder for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute men’s soccer team, was recently named to the All-Conference Second Team in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) for the second consecutive season. A 2012 graduate of Canton High School, Murray tied for seventh in the conference […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
Beyond CHS,
Sports | By
Canton Citizen
Raising Matty Christian, an acclaimed feature-length documentary about the life of Canton’s Matthew G. Christian (1983-2009), will be available on DVD beginning tomorrow, November 20. Winner of nine film festival awards nationally, Raising Matty Christian was directed by Rhode Island-based filmmaker Christian de Rezendes under his company Breaking Branches Pictures. The film is an inspiring profile on the late […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen
Robert P. “Doc” Moritz of Canton passed away November 16 at the Copley at Stoughton surrounded by his loving family. Born in Dorchester, he was raised in St. William’s Parrish in Savin Hill and graduated from Commerce High School and Massachusetts School of Optometry and was an Army veteran of World War II. Doc lived […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
Obituaries | By
Canton Citizen
Anne Marie Magee, 85, of Canton, passed away after a brief illness on November 14 surrounded by her loving family. Born at Norwood Hospital on September 19, 1930, she was a lifelong resident of Canton. She attended Saint John the Evangelist School and graduated from Canton High School in 1948. Anne Marie graduated from the […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen
Madelyn Wood, 92, of Canton, passed away at home November 11 surrounded by her loving family. Born and raised in Cambridge, she graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School where she was a cheerleader and played on the tennis team. She was a Navy veteran of World War II and served as the aide […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen
John D. Jenkins, 89, of Canton, passed away November 11 surrounded by his loving family. Born in Hyde Park, he was raised in Canton and graduated from Canton High School in 1944, where he was class president and captain of the football team. John was a veteran of the United States Coast Guard and worked […]
Nov 20 2015 | Posted in
Obituaries | By
Canton Citizen
Dear Editor: Your “Man About Canton” noted the proliferation of stop signs around town in his November 5 column. He failed to use the word “illegal.” Under Massachusetts law, every stop sign posted for traffic calming or to slow traffic is illegal. Every all-way stop not justified by a documented crash history (five crashes per […]
Dear Editor: As the days of the Blue Hills deer hunt draw near, the controversy continues as to whether or not it is necessary. For four days after Thanksgiving, 196 hunters will be allowed to kill up to four deer each (two with antlers, two without). These deer have not been hunted for 100 years […]
Dear Editor: I wanted to take a moment to thank all the Canton residents who were participants in the inaugural “On the Road with American Landscape” bus tour to the Last Green Valley in Connecticut on October 1. While the 55 passengers hailed from places far and wide, such as Rhode Island, Boston, the north […]