The CHS boys’ varsity hockey team opened league play with a bang last week, topping Davenport Division foes Oliver Ames and Stoughton while extending its unbeaten streak to five (4-0-1) through the quarter mark of the season. The Bulldogs were paced by junior Mike Denehy, who racked up a team-high four goals, including an impressive […]
On December 16, exactly ten months to the day after losing their house and nearly all of their belongings in a two-alarm fire that also claimed their elderly cat Patches, the Notkin family of Canton made their long-awaited return to 63 Trayer Road. The house, which had to be completely rebuilt from the studs up, […]
Editor’s note: Although it is impossible to properly measure the importance of one event against another, the editors of the Canton Citizen have carefully reviewed all of the stories that made headlines this year and have selected the ones that they feel have had the greatest impact on the community. What follows then, is the […]
The Canton High School boys’ varsity ice hockey team opened its season on the road with a 3-3 tie against nonleague Quincy last Wednesday, but it was hardly a feel-good experience as the Bulldogs twice gave up a two-goal lead while committing far too many careless penalties. At one point early in the third period […]
Already recognized as a leader in the field of bullying prevention and well on its way to complying with the state’s new anti-bullying law, the Canton Public Schools is taking a similarly proactive approach with another hot-button topic — that of sports-related concussions and the resulting new state legislation that took effect in September. The […]
On Thanksgiving Day, longtime Canton resident and culinary aficionado Barbara Smith got up early and prepared a full turkey dinner with all the fixings. It was for her daughter Kim and her grandchildren Sarah and David, and as far as big holiday meals go, it was, in Smith’s eyes, her “last hurrah” in the kitchen. […]
At a level of athletics where age and experience are paramount to winning, the 2011 CHS boys’ ice hockey team will enter this season seriously lacking in both departments after graduating 13 seniors last spring, including stud goaltender Jon Donaruma and all-league defenseman Matt Buckley, as well as several other key contributors. The Bulldogs, who […]
With the recent addition of three new members and its first-ever “youth speak out” scheduled for Friday afternoon at the library, the Canton Youth Commission is now officially back in business following years of inactivity. The mere fact that they are able to host this “speak out” – which is open to all Canton middle […]
The Galvin Middle School, still riding high off the smashing success of its new football program, will now have a couple of hoops teams to root for this winter after School Committee members, following a lengthy deliberation Thursday night, talked themselves into funding both a girls’ and boys’ basketball team on a one-year trial basis. […]
The Canton Public Schools may soon be on the verge of a dramatic and exciting computer network overhaul, one that would change the face of computing for all CPS users while generating substantial annual savings for the district for years to come. However, as the School Committee learned earlier this week, such a system would […]
