Stories written by Jay TurnerJay joined the
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The wins kept coming for the Canton High varsity volleyball team last week as the Bulldogs improved to 5-0 in division play and 8-1 overall with consecutive road victories over Milford, Stoughton, and Sharon. The red-hot Bulldogs, whose lone loss to date has been to a 9-2 King Philip squad, has only played a single […]
Oct 8 2015 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

The Patriots have the unmistakable “Flying Elvis” and the Bruins have that classic “spoked B.” And now the Bulldogs of Canton High School, for the first time in school history, have their own signature look — and one that is every bit as official as the pros thanks to the generosity and expertise of the […]
Oct 1 2015 | Posted in
News,
Schools | By
Jay Turner

A young and improving Canton High boys soccer team picked up its first victory of the season last week, snapping a four-game winless streak with a 2-1 win over Milford. The win came Thursday night at home and was even more convincing than the score would suggest, as the Bulldogs controlled possession and did not […]
Oct 1 2015 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner
Editor’s note: The following is the fourth in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series continues with a look at Ponkapoag Golf Course, a 36-hole municipal course located on Route 138 at the foot of the Blue Hills. From “world beater” status in the 1940s and 50s to the “worst golf course […]
Sep 25 2015 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner
After hitting a bit of a rough patch early in the season, the Canton High varsity field hockey team appears to be back on track following consecutive victories over Foxboro and Oliver Ames. The Bulldogs, a perennial league powerhouse, are now even at 2-2-1 overall and are just a single standings point out of first […]
Sep 25 2015 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

On July 16, just six weeks after losing her older brother Marc to a heroin overdose, Elisa Alberts posted a letter on the Canton Alliance Against Substance Abuse Facebook group that she had written a few months earlier — one of many she had penned to Marc over the past year-plus in the hopes of […]
Sep 17 2015 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner
Picking up where they left off in last year’s undefeated regular season, the Canton High varsity volleyball team opened the 2015 campaign with back-to-back victories last week over Kelley-Rex foes North Attleboro and Mansfield. Led by veteran head coach Pat Cawley and senior captains Elizabeth Hamilton, Olivia Devoe and Rye Verille, the defending Davenport Division […]
Sep 17 2015 | Posted in
High School,
Sports | By
Jay Turner

For several different reasons, August 18, 2015, is a day that Donnie Lewis of Canton will not soon forget. That evening, Lewis and his family, including his wife, Jean, and sons Donovan and Brendan, were invited to Fenway Park as special guests of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Boston Red Sox. Prior to the […]
Sep 10 2015 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner
Two of the town’s biggest pending development proposals made the rounds through the planning and zoning boards last month, but only one of them — a private ice rink facility — managed to sail through unscathed with the necessary approvals in hand. Canton Ice House LLC, proposed by three Canton builders on an industrial parcel […]
Sep 4 2015 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Jay Turner

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of profiles on Canton’s golf courses. The series continues with a look at Wampatuck Country Club, a nine-hole regulation course located on Pleasant Garden Road. With its iconic Geoffrey Cornish design and picturesque views of Reservoir Pond, Canton’s Wampatuck Country Club certainly knows how to […]
Aug 27 2015 | Posted in
Features | By
Jay Turner