While it is customary to leave an offering in the collection plate, several parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Church had no choice but to pay up recently when their cars, which they had parked in the Canton Center MBTA commuter rail lot during Sunday services, were smacked with a $5 ticket despite the fact […]
A day after burying their friend and former teammate Scott Herr, the CHS boys’ varsity hockey team returned to the ice following two cancellations and offered a fitting tribute in the form of two blowout victories: 5-0 over Stoughton and 9-1 over a frustrated King Philip team. Head coach Brian Shuman said the Stoughton game, […]
After five tough games on the road to open the season, the CHS girls’ varsity basketball team was more than happy to play both of its games at home last week, and it showed in the Bulldogs’ performance as they played both opponents closer and produced more offensively. Now they just have to win. As […]
While it is still too early to know for sure, the Canton Public Schools looks to be headed toward a “very, very dark period” for the next couple of years, according to Superintendent Dr. John D’Auria, who previewed the FY2011 operating budget at last week’s School Committee meeting. Although no actual line items were discussed, […]
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 […]
Editor’s note: Shortly after midnight on January 1, Scott Herr, a 2009 graduate of Canton High School and a freshman at Northeastern University, was killed when the truck he was riding in, driven by his girlfriend, crashed along an icy stretch of road near Buffalo, New York. He is survived by his parents, Joseph and […]
Editor’s note: On February 1, Jonathan Forman, a Canton resident and a proud father of two girls, lost his battle with Ewing’s sarcoma, a form of cancer that affects the chest and lungs. He was the sole guardian of both daughters, Aimee and Sabrina. Anyone interested in supporting the girls and their Aunt Sandy in […]
It isn’t often that a high school football coach in Massachusetts gets compared to a coach in the National Football League, let alone any number of the league’s all-time great coaches. Then again, it isn’t often that a coach inherits a proud yet struggling program, comes in and beats the super bowl-bound Thanksgiving Day rivals […]
Part 1 – A Season to Remember Part 2 – ‘Snow Bowl’ caps off storybook season Part 3 – Coach Paul Therrian, the legend
It will forever be remembered as the “snow bowl,” but Canton High School’s super bowl win over Somerset on December 5, 1981 was so much more than that. Not only was it the necessary icing on the cake that was the 1981 regular season — a perfect campaign complete with blowouts, nail biters and comebacks — […]
