The Canton A’s semipro baseball team recently completed an outstanding summer season, and the amazing thing, according to general manager Cab Devoll of Canton, is that the coaching staff “didn’t know what [they] had when they started the season.” Devoll helped draft the players on the current roster, which finished the regular season with a […]
The Canton School Committee recently reaffirmed plans to restructure the fee schedule for extracurricular activities and performing arts at Canton High School and the Galvin Middle School. The new one-time $60 fee at CHS will cover participation in foreign exchanges, debate team and mock trial, math team, school newspaper and literary magazine (editors), chess club, […]
A regional task force consisting of police detectives from Canton and surrounding towns are continuing to probe a rash of Dunkin Donuts robberies in the area. Last week there were two more robberies reported — one at a Dunkin Donuts in Norwood and another in West Roxbury. Detectives are also following up leads related to […]
A tractor hit both a utility and traffic light pole at the intersection of Randolph and Turnpike streets (Rte. 138) just after 6 a.m. on Friday, August 2, causing a fuel spill and a traffic signal outage that lasted several hours. The driver of the truck, Claude McDaniel, 44, of Passaic, New Jersey, was cited […]
The Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team advanced to the south sectional playoffs last week — the furthest the squad has gone in team history — before being eliminated with two losses in three games. Canton lost to Brockton 6-0, beat Easton 16-6 (the first-place team from District 9 North), and was ousted again […]
Selectmen received good financial news on many fronts Tuesday night with word that the town is getting a large grant and a pair of interest-free loans from the Mass. Water Resources Authority while also realizing a significant energy savings from the Pine Street solar facility. The only bit of negative news involved the town’s disbursement […]
Canton firefighters and paramedics responded to a fatal accident that killed a 33-year-old Boston man on Route 95 southbound near the Canton-Norwood exit in the early morning hours of Monday, July 22. The accident closed I-95 south in that location for several hours before being reopened to traffic at 8:30 a.m. Around 4:15 a.m., emergency […]
Fresh off his win as coach of the South team in the Shriners All-Star Classic, CHS head football coach Dave Bohane announced his offseason weightlifting and fitness awards along with the new-look schedule for the upcoming football season. As a result of a major football realignment that takes effect this year across Massachusetts, Canton will […]
With an undermanned squad and several players playing out of position and many volunteering to pitch, the Canton American Legion Post 24 team made it into the playoffs, earning the fourth spot in District 6 East. Canton now moves on to play Foxboro, the second-place team in District 6 West, in the best-of-three opening round. […]
The Canton A’s have made it to the Cranberry League playoffs after finishing third in the standings with a 15-9 record. The A’s were due to face second-place Weymouth on Tuesday night, with the winner moving on to face either No. 1 Braintree or No. 4 Easton in the championship game on Thursday, July 25, […]
