The CHS girls’ track team won its first meet of the season last week, beating Milford 50-44. The boys’ team, rebuilding in talent and numbers, lost for the second time this season 66-25 after falling to Stoughton 70-21 in the season opener. With 46 team members, the girls have the numbers and the depth to […]
The future of the new senior center remains in flux after renovation costs for the former Knights of Columbus building on Pleasant Street came in far above previous estimates. As presented by Building Renovations Committee Chairman Bob McCarthy, town meeting voters in May will have to decide if the town should spend a little over […]
Police Chief Ken Berkowitz told the School Committee last week that the implementation of a new school safety protocol for violent intruders will be a collaborative effort between both parties and not a rushed one as he educates the public and the Canton school community about the ALICE program. The acronym stands for Alert, Lockdown, […]
Next week will be important for the future of the new Canton Senior Center as the architect hired to come up with renovation plans for the recently purchased Knights of Columbus building on Pleasant Street is due to present his recommendations to the Council on Aging, the Building Renovations Committee (BRC), and the Board of […]
Canton Attorney Glen Hannington recently sponsored his 26th annual sports banquet at the Brookmeadow Country Club in which he honored his summer and fall baseball and softball teams. Several of his teams did very well this season, including the Hannington’s of Massachusetts Over 70 team, which has won several state, regional and national titles in […]
The town’s financial planners will need to be creative with capital budget funding options for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2013. As of this week debt capital requests total $1.976 million — far exceeding the $241,000 available for capital funding. Department heads presented their requests to selectmen Tuesday night. Leading the list […]
Both Canton and Stoughton High head coaches were right on target in their postgame assessment of Canton’s 28-26 overtime upset of the 9-2 Black Knights on Thanksgiving Day. “You have to tip your cap to Canton,” said veteran SHS coach Greg Burke. “They played well and we didn’t do enough to slow them down. It […]
More questions than answers came out of a progress report of the South Coast Rail Project heard Tuesday night at Town Hall. The project, which will bring rail service to Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford, will originate in Boston’s South Station and travel through the Canton and Stoughton rail corridors. The same questions posed […]
After sending home a letter to parents about each school’s MCAS scores, school administrators presented a plan to the School Committee last week with the goal of unifying the district curriculum and improving all student scores this spring. Superintendent Jeff Granatino reported that last year’s scores as a whole were above average, adding that there […]
CHS head football coach Dave Bohane hopes to get some playing time for No. 24, senior Kyshani Dumott, in Thursday’s season finale against Stoughton, but as with everyone else on the Bulldogs’ roster, playing time will be determined based on game setting and conditions. While Bohane and his coaches are proud of what Dumott has […]
