The long-awaited report from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) concerning the use of the 255-acre Reservoir Pond arrived at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night, and although preliminary in nature, it provided a roadmap for selectmen to draw on in the near future. The MAPC report was due to be posted on the town’s website […]
The Canton High School drama club presented the Caribbean-themed musical Once on This Island last weekend in the CHS auditorium. Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale “The Little Mermaid,” the play tells the story of a poor island girl who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes. See […]
The changing character of the Ponkapoag Civic Association, noise disturbances at the Pleasant Street roundabout, and a citizen proposal for a town-wide traffic study were all on the docket at an action-packed Blue Ribbon Traffic Committee meeting held last Tuesday evening at Canton Town Hall. In a nearly two-hour session that was dedicated almost entirely […]
As the Canton Walk, Bike & Hike Advisory Committee talked about creating a town hiking map during the group’s first meeting last week, member Jan Shub shared an interesting experience with the group. She related that she had gone on a wonderful hike with the town’s conservation agent and that the two had walked through […]
When Jennifer McDaid Garbuzinski first heard the news about the tragic death of Canton kindergartener Kaleigh Kenyon last month, she did what thousands of other local residents did and immediately turned to Facebook. Although she didn’t know the family personally and would not even be in town for the next two weeks, McDaid Garbuzinski still […]
See live owls up close as the Museum of American Bird Art (MABA) at Mass Audubon hosts its popular annual Owls Live! Festival on Saturday, March 19. Learn about owls with live presentations, games, and art activities for the whole family. Activities include owl cookie decorating, face painting, mask making, and owl-related art activities. An […]
Storied Blue Hill Country Club has completed a recapitalization with Concert Golf Partners that by all accounts has set the 90-year-old private club on a new, more stable path. The transaction, completed this winter and unanimously ratified by the club’s board of directors and membership, retired all club debt, lowered annual dues by 30 percent, […]
Thomas J. Green, 67, of East Bridgewater, formerly of Canton and South Boston, passed away March 15 at the Nemasket Health Care Center in East Bridgewater surrounded by his loving family. Born in Malden, he was raised in Medford and graduated from St. John’s School in Cambridge and North Cambridge Catholic High School. He was […]
Doris A. O’Connor, 86, of Canton, passed away in her lovely home March 10 surrounded by her loving family. Born in South Boston, she was raised in South Boston and Dorchester and graduated from Jeremiah Burke High School. She worked as an executive confidential secretary for Boston Edison for 40 years before retiring. She was […]
David A. Shaw, 53, of Canton, passed away March 9 at home surrounded by his loving family. Born in Quincy, he was raised in Somerville and graduated from Somerville High School and was a veteran of the Army National Guard. He previously lived in Billerica for 11 years before moving to Canton 10 years ago. […]
