The CHS boys ice hockey team enjoyed a pair of “get-right” games last week as the Bulldogs exploded for 17 goals in blowout wins over King Philip and Taunton — snapping a two-game losing streak and pushing the team’s record back over .500 for the season. With their first Hockomock League loss in more than […]
Editor’s note: The following are a few of the many compelling stories that made headlines in Canton during the past 12 months. For an in-depth review of 2014 from a local perspective, check out the January 8 issue of the Canton Citizen. Former Bulldog legend inspires ice bucket craze From the dedication of Billy Cravens Field […]
As the weekday evening anchor for 7News Boston, Adam Williams is a regional celebrity with a lot of demands on his time. However, when close friend Brian Moore-Ward of Canton recently asked if he would join his team of “B’s Climbing Fools” in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s sixth annual Climb to the Top Boston […]
Anchored by three talented seniors and a rising junior standout in the 126-pound class, the CHS varsity wrestling team is off to a strong start in 2014, with three team victories and several outstanding individual highlights through the season’s first two weeks. While the Bulldogs are still adjusting to life without the legendary duo of […]
After winning just three games all of last season in what amounted to a development year, the CHS girls ice hockey team is already on the verge of matching that total following another dominant performance last week against Norwell. Including a tough 3-0 road loss to four-time state champion Duxbury on Saturday, the Bulldogs are […]
Coming off a memorable 2013-14 campaign that ended on the brink of a south sectional title, the CHS boys ice hockey team heads into a new season with championship aspirations and the talent to make it happen. On Saturday, the Bulldogs wasted little time in entering the win column as they knocked off a talented […]
When local developers Paul Folkman and James Lamarr first went before the Canton zoning board in July with an idea for a condo conversion at the Connors Wayside Furniture site on Route 138, they portrayed themselves as a different breed of builder with a willingness to compromise and a genuine desire to please. Five months […]
As one of Canton’s longest-married couples at 68 years and counting, Nick and Mary Bartone have seen their share of life’s challenges and then some. Yet nothing could have possibly prepared them for the shock and devastation they experienced last Wednesday afternoon on the day before Thanksgiving, as a fire tore through their modest two-family […]
Nearly three decades have passed since Jeanne Quinn last had a real Thanksgiving. It was November 28, 1985, to be exact — the last one that she shared with both of her children, Shaun and Yvonne, together as a family. The following year, Quinn would spend that once joyous occasion living out a parent’s worst […]
On the evening of November 6 at the Hilton in Dedham, Jeff and Pat Gallahue stood before a room full of oncologists and oncology nurses and humbly soaked in their applause. For the Canton couple, the occasion was both very meaningful and also quite surreal: Here were these lifesaving heroes, dozens of them from across […]
