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Despite having a superior head-to-head record, including a dominant win in the annual Hockomock Classic game, the Canton High boys’ ice hockey team will have to settle for the No. 2 seed behind rival Franklin in the Division 2 south playoffs after closing out the season with a 1-1-1 showing at the highly competitive Bridgewater […]
Feb 29 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

The CHS boys’ ice hockey team captured its second straight Hockomock Classic Cup on Saturday, dominating rival Franklin 4-1 on the Panthers’ home ice and leaving no doubt which is the best team in the Hock right now.
Feb 22 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

Already mulling a zoning change that would prevent any new residences from being built in downtown Canton, the town’s Planning Board last week decided, by the slimmest of margins, not to support a bid by two local developers to build a seven-unit condominium project on Plymouth Street. The project in question, submitted by Scott Lenhart […]
Feb 22 2012 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Jay Turner

After squandering a golden opportunity to sew up the division last Wednesday against rival Westwood, the Canton High girls’ ice hockey team bounced right back on Saturday with a dominant performance against Medway/Ashland, winning 4-0 at home on Senior Night to clinch the SEMGHL West Division crown outright. It was the perfect highlight to what […]
Feb 22 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

Despite losing two more games last week and four in a row overall, the CHS girls’ basketball team is headed back to the postseason after a huge win Sunday at Westwood in the opening round of the Riley Winter Classic. Similar to last season, the Bulldogs are the beneficiaries of the so-called “Sullivan rule,” which […]
Feb 22 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

A memorable winter season came to an end for the Canton High swim team last week, with six female swimmers competing against the state’s best at the Division 2 state swimming championships, held Sunday evening at Harvard University. The six participants represented Canton’s largest contingent at a state meet in the past several seasons, and […]
Feb 22 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

After more than 50 years of serving different regions of Canton and operating entirely independent of one another, the town’s two Catholic parishes, St. John the Evangelist and St. Gerard Majella, appear to be headed toward a future of collaboration that would involve the sharing of resources, staff, and possibly more — all under the […]
Feb 15 2012 | Posted in
News | By
Jay Turner

After clawing its way back into the division title picture with five wins in six games, the CHS girls’ ice hockey team kept things rolling last week with a dominant five-day stretch, catapulting its way to the top of the standings with three consecutive league victories — all on the road — including a 5-2 […]
Feb 15 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

It was a girls-only affair for the Canton High swim team at last weekend’s central/south sectional swimming championships at MIT, where the six Bulldog qualifiers made the rest of their teammates and their coaches proud with several strong performances, highlighted by Shannon McLaughlin’s fourth-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. McLaughlin, who qualified for the upcoming […]
Feb 15 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

The season just keeps getting better for the red-hot CHS boys’ ice hockey team, which followed up a division-clinching win over a talented Mansfield squad last week with its first-ever victory over nonleague Lincoln-Sudbury in a wild finish last Wednesday at home. “I would say it was the wildest game of the season by far,” […]
Feb 15 2012 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner