Update: The CHS boys lacrosse team earned a split at home this week with a big win over Scituate followed by a 10-4 loss to King Philip. The Bulldogs (2-3) will host Norwood on Thursday, April 21, at 11 a.m. *** Following a rough opening stretch that included back-to-back losses to Hockomock large school teams, the […]
A showdown between utility companies and local residents over the future of energy production and consumption has been brewing across the commonwealth, and as the last stretch of real estate on a controversial gas pipeline expansion route, the town of Canton is poised to become one of its key battlegrounds. While Houston-based Kinder Morgan continues […]
Expressing deep regret for his actions and insisting that he would not be a threat to others if granted his release, convicted murderer Rod Matthews told the state parole board on Tuesday that he now fully understands why he took the life of former Canton High School classmate Shaun Ouillette and insisted that he is […]
The changing character of the Ponkapoag Civic Association, noise disturbances at the Pleasant Street roundabout, and a citizen proposal for a town-wide traffic study were all on the docket at an action-packed Blue Ribbon Traffic Committee meeting held last Tuesday evening at Canton Town Hall. In a nearly two-hour session that was dedicated almost entirely […]
When Jennifer McDaid Garbuzinski first heard the news about the tragic death of Canton kindergartener Kaleigh Kenyon last month, she did what thousands of other local residents did and immediately turned to Facebook. Although she didn’t know the family personally and would not even be in town for the next two weeks, McDaid Garbuzinski still […]
Nearly 30 years after he bludgeoned his Canton High School classmate with a baseball bat to satisfy a violent curiosity, convicted killer Rod Matthews is headed back before the state parole board later this month to plead for his release. One of the state’s most notorious teen murderers, Matthews, now 43, was only a high […]
Update: The third-seeded CHS boys hockey team fell to a surging Scituate squad 4-2 Wednesday night in the Division 2 south sectional semifinals. The Bulldogs finish another outstanding season at 16-3-4 overall. They took care of business in the first two rounds, and with a win Wednesday night against 10th-seeded Scituate, the CHS boys ice hockey […]
An ongoing criminal investigation into a New Year’s Eve party at a vacant home on Weathervane Road has widened considerably over the past few weeks, uncovering an alleged sexual assault that occurred at the party and leading to the arrest of a 52-year-old Canton man. While police are not commenting on the specifics of the […]
They gave it their all, but the better team prevailed. That was the assessment of CHS girls hockey coach Dennis Aldrich after the lady Bulldogs’ 2-0 loss to Winchester in the MIAA Division 2 tournament last week. Unlike last year, when an evenly matched Winchester team dashed the girls’ postseason dreams in a double-overtime heartbreaker, […]
Talking portraits, state-of-the-art exhibits, a “destination” restaurant and taproom, a true village green — it’s all part of the bold vision for the future Paul Revere Heritage Site and cultural center off Neponset Street, and it is rapidly moving into the realm of possibility, armed with the backing of the influential Revere Heritage Commission and […]
