The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team won four of five last week against the iron of the league, including an improbable win over a Braintree squad that features several players from the Division 1A state championship team. Down two runs and with two outs in the seventh inning, Canton mounted an impressive rally, […]
Brothers Geoffrey and Richard Neal grew up on Spring Lane, where they played in the attic as children with a samurai sword and a Japanese flag that their father, the late Brigadier General Willis A. Neal, USMCR, brought back from his years of service in World War II. One of their father’s personal items that […]
Saint John the Evangelist School in Canton is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris Flieger will serve as its new principal beginning next month. Flieger has served in leadership positions in Catholic education, most recently as associate superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston. Flieger earned undergraduate and master’s degrees at Truman State University […]
Imagine going through a whole day of school, running three to five miles, and then returning home for several hours of homework. That about describes a typical day in the life for recent CHS graduates Catherine Song and Mark Clancy, two of the school’s most accomplished and respected student-athletes. Clancy and Song were Canton High […]
William M. Swanson of Canton, formerly of Newtown, CT, passed away after a long illness June 15, a month short of his 90th birthday, at Norwood Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Born on July 18, 1926, in Danbury, CT, he graduated from Danbury High School, Arnold College in Bridgeport, CT, and earned his master’s […]
Editor’s note: The following is an update from Nancy Cahillane Connor, a Canton native and Galvin Middle School educational assistant who volunteered to donate a kidney to her nephew’s mother-in-law. Connor, who was profiled in the May 12 edition of the Citizen, underwent successful transplant surgery on June 1 at St. Barnabus Medical Center (NJ) […]
Bank of Canton is hosting a free cybersecurity seminar at its corporate headquarters on Monday, June 27, to provide local businesses with tools and resources to combat today’s cyber threats. The Get Cyber Smart! seminar will feature a panel of cybersecurity experts from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Fusion Center (including the Department of Homeland Security […]
There appears to be no end in sight to the recent hotel boom in Canton, with a Hilton Garden Inn slated to join the existing Homewood Suites on Royall Street and now a Best Western apparently in the works on Route 138. While the former hotel has obtained all of the necessary approvals and is […]
Canton resident Madison Bergstrom, 8, has been named a Jimmy Fund Clinic Patient Partner for Stop & Shop’s Help Cure Childhood Cancer campaign that supports pediatric cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The daughter of Shauna McLaughlin
He inspired an entire community back in January with his unforgettable “one shift” against the rival Stoughton Black Knights, and now Canton’s Matty Marcone will get the star treatment yet again as the subject of a new documentary film celebrating his “life and spirit.” One Shift: The Story of Matty Marcone will premiere on Monday, […]
