After spending most of the summer getting to know the voters in the other nine communities in the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, state senate hopeful Bob Burr thought it would be fitting to spend the final week before the September 14 primary campaigning in the place where it all began: his hometown of Canton. […]
For the second consecutive year, the Dean S. Luce Elementary School has failed to meet state performance and improvement targets on the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS test – albeit by the slimmest of margins – and must now join the list of Massachusetts schools that have been “identified for improvement” under federal […]
In the spirit of spreading “good vibes” and raising as much money as possible for kids in need, Boston-based apparel company Life is good decided to go all-out with its annual music festival this year, partnering with Superfly Productions of Bonnaroo fame to transform it into an event that people would circle on their calendars […]
He’s been pegged as a “shooting star,” an energetic, results-driven leader who went from being a student teacher to being the head of a school district in a little less than two decades’ time. But after years of riding the fast track, Jeff Granatino, Canton’s new superintendent of schools, is now ready to settle into […]
A generation of Canton kids have come to know him as their soccer coach and as a proud father of three sons, but scan the newspaper archives for some of the region’s most high profile criminal cases, and chances are that William “Bill” Sullivan will have starred in at least a few of them. Coach […]
The area in front of the Dean S. Luce School that abuts Pleasant Street will be a construction zone when school reopens to students on September 7, but new Superintendent of Schools Jeff Granatino is confident that the project — which involves building a circular driveway to accommodate bus traffic — will not become a […]
In a surprise move that town attorney Mark Bobrowski believes has everything to do with the upcoming ballot initiative to repeal 40B, the Roseland Property Company — the New Jersey developer that recently won the right to build a major housing project off Randolph Street following a lengthy legal battle — has decided to appeal […]
After seven years of mostly unsuccessful legal challenges and appeals, the town of Canton has reluctantly conceded defeat in the case of the Roseland Property Company and its bid to build a 220-unit affordable housing development on 81 acres near the Randolph town line. It was only a few months ago that Selectman Victor Del […]
While town officials continue to do “everything in their power” to hammer out a solution with the owners of Reservoir Pond over needed repairs to the Pleasant Street dam, those who make use of the pond as a recreational source are beginning to see the summer of 2010 for what it has become: a lost […]
After more than two months of largely door-to-door campaigning, Canton selectman and state Senate hopeful Bob Burr remains very much aware of the challenges inherent in his bid to topple seven-time incumbent Brian Joyce — not the least of which begins with a capital R, as in Republican. Burr, who is new to the party, […]
