Despite two difficult losses — 3-0 to Dedham and 6-2 to North Attleboro — the CHS softball team continued to show improvement last week. The Bulldogs fared much better against 10th ranked Dedham than they did in the teams’ opening game of the season when they had eight errors and fell 9-0. Last week, Canton […]
After a difficult 5-0 loss to Foxboro, the Canton High School varsity softball team rebounded last week with an impressive 6-0 win against Boston Latin Academy — the team’s first of the young season. Head coach Ed Amico said the girls’ performance against Foxboro was hampered by popups and a number of errors, two areas […]
For the tenth year, the Dean S. Luce School will sponsor its annual Fun Run on May 1. The event includes two fun runs and a 5K race, which all start from the Luce School at 45 Independence Street. The day’s events kick off at 10 a.m. with a half-mile fun run on a course […]
After two decisive victories, 19-14 against Foxboro and 15-13 over Oliver Ames, the Canton High girls’ lacrosse team fell to Middleboro 13-4 to start the season off with a 2-1 record. “The score shows it was really a tough game,” coach Chris Murtagh said of the game against Middleboro. “We started off close at the […]
With five new faces on a team of 11, and six of the starting nine playing new positions, the Canton High softball team may seem unrecognizable when they walk on the field. Even with all the new team members, coach Ed Amico said the girls have already established a strong sense of camaraderie and shown […]
Victor Del Vecchio has been involved in Canton politics for the greater part of two decades, with the last nine years spent on the Board of Selectmen. Del Vecchio has worked as an attorney for more than 30 years with a focus now in consulting, mediation and arbitration. He said he’s most proud of how […]
A 1985 graduate of Canton High, Bob Burr has served on the Board of Selectmen since the board expanded from three to five members in 2004. Burr touted numerous major accomplishments of the board, including union negotiations for a new health insurance plan for town workers that has saved taxpayers a million dollars each year […]
A self employed lawyer with a Canton practice focusing on real estate, Chris Connolly will wrap up his first five-year term on the Planning Board come April. It came as a surprise when Connolly first entered the Canton political scene half a decade ago. Relatively unknown in the community, Connolly managed to defeat incumbent Peter […]
A mother of three children in the Canton Public Schools, Liz Salisbury entered the political landscape three years ago with no previous involvement in local or town government. “I just had a lot of questions and was one of the people in the neighborhood that complained a lot,” she joked. “And I really strongly believe […]
A social studies teacher and liaison for the Metco program in Sharon, Jill Stevens was appointed to the School Committee last summer to fill a vacancy following the resignation of Tim Brooks. The mother of two children in the Canton Public Schools said she got involved in Canton politics because she “believes strongly in the […]
