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 […]
The CHS girls’ volleyball season came to an abrupt end Friday night when the slumping Bulldogs, already losers of three straight heading into the match, fell to seventh seeded Milford 3-0 in the opening round of the Division 2 central sectional tournament. Canton, which came in as the 10th seed, once again had the unenviable […]
If it weren’t for 95-year-old George Vujnovich receiving his long-overdue Bronze Star last month — a full 66 years after he helped launch the incredible, yet thoroughly overlooked Halyard rescue mission in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in the late summer of 1944 — then perhaps Paul Seery’s thoughts would be elsewhere this Veterans Day. Instead, they are […]
Canton voters showed a surprisingly conservative bent in Tuesday’s statewide election, preferring GOP candidates Charlie Baker and Mary Connaughton by fairly wide margins while also taking the conservative position on two of the three state ballot questions. Baker, who lost to Democratic incumbent Deval Patrick in the governor’s race, garnered considerable support from south shore […]
It was a bittersweet week for the CHS varsity volleyball team as the Bulldogs wrapped up a perfect regular season in the Davenport Division (Hock small) with a win over Foxboro, but came up short in its bid for the inaugural Hockomock Classic Cup, falling to Kelly-Rex Division champion North Attleboro for the second time […]
This coming Tuesday, November 2, is Election Day across the state of Massachusetts, and among the dozens of candidates vying for state office this year are two residents of Canton: state Representative Bill Galvin (D), who is running unopposed for reelection in the Sixth Norfolk District, and Canton Selectman Bob Burr (R), who is running […]
