Floral arranger Joan Marie Driscoll, owner of Floral Scents in Canton, and assistant arranger Maribel Powell, president of the Canton Garden Club, will represent the Garden Club during Art in Bloom 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This three-day festival showcasing flower arranging as an art form takes place Saturday to Monday, […]
Dear Editor: On Saturday, April 14, the Canton and Randolph high school softball teams played in a doubleheader. The Canton players, parents, and alumni sold food and drink donated by the community, and the players and their families made baked goods. Their efforts raised several hundreds of dollars for two charities: Cops for Kids with […]
Dear Editor: Over several weeks’ time, Canton residents have received two separate mailings of oversized color postcards that take issue with photovoltaic solar panels being installed by a company that the town of Canton has leased land to. The land is located at the formerly unusable acreage of Canton’s old town dump site on Pine […]
Dear Editor: In recent weeks the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union Local 103 has sent several misleading and factually incorrect brochures to the citizens of Canton purporting to contain “facts” about the Canton Landfill Solar Project. After you read the rest of this letter, I hope you will question the motivation of the electrical […]
Elaine T. Walsh (Hill), 78, a lifelong resident of Canton, died peacefully Monday, April 16, 2012, after a long illness. Born in Boston, she was raised in Canton and attended Canton schools. She was a retired telephone operator for New England Telephone. Elaine was the devoted and loving wife of the late Paul A. Walsh. […]
Christina J. Casey, of Canton, passed away April 15, 2012. Born and raised in Watertown, she attended Watertown schools. She moved to Canton in 1940 and worked at the Plymouth Rubber Company until her retirement in 1980. Beloved wife of the late William J. Casey. Dear sister of Marjorie Cappadona of Burlington and the late […]
Raphael T. Moreira, 19, of Sharon, formerly of Canton, passed away April 14, 2012. Born and raised in Canton, he attended Canton Public Schools before moving to Sharon and graduating from Sharon High School in 2011. He played Little League baseball in Canton for many years and football for Sharon High School. Raphael is survived […]
The Open Book: Canton Public Library News If you are out and about on April 23 you just might be lucky enough to receive a free book as part of World Book Night — the annual celebration of reading held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland. It will see tens of […]
Canton resident Nancy O’Neil, LPN, was recognized as the commonwealth’s TB Hero at the 2012 “World No TB Day” event held at the Massachusetts State House on March 27. The Medical Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (MACET), a group of physicians and other TB experts focused on Massachusetts, held the event attended by […]
Canton High School sophomore Quinn Merrigan, a standout wrestler on the Bulldogs’ varsity wrestling team, recently competed at the NHSCA High School National Wrestling tournament, held March 28-30 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. During the winter season Merrigan compiled a record of 31-17 and also made it to both the Division 3 sectional and state finals. […]
