The Canton A’s, a semi-pro baseball team that competes in the Cranberry League, had mixed results last week as the team beat South Shore 4-2 but fell twice to Middleboro in a Sunday doubleheader by scores of 5-1 and 8-5. The A’s are now 3-8-1 and in eighth place out of nine teams in the […]
The Board of Selectmen has decided to authorize a transfer of up to $17,500 from the NSTAR Mitigation Fund to help finance the cost of next week’s July 4th celebration. The cost of the holiday festivities is estimated at $30,000, which includes $18,000 for the fireworks display. Fundraising has been slow in part because of […]
Inconsistent hitting has plagued the Canton American Legion baseball team at the start of the season as the squad fell to 1-3 with a 1-0 loss to Norfolk Sunday afternoon at Canton High School. Earlier in the week, Canton fell to Needham 3-0 but won its first game of the season 3-1 against Franklin. Sunday’s […]
Canton A’s head coach Kee Arguimbau hopes the wins will begin to come now that he has a full lineup, with some of his hitters returning from injury and a few players being added to the roster. As of Sunday, the A’s, a semipro baseball team playing its home games at Canton High and made […]
A police officer who noticed a man being dropped off at the closed Dunkin Donuts on Neponset Street near I-95 around 1 a.m. on Sunday, June 17, found a man hiding behind the bushes. Officers Steve Saraf and Donald Stapleton investigated and found a man with a pair of gloves and a tire iron in […]
Monday’s School Committee meeting provided two major news items: the Canton Teachers Association formally accepted a three-year contract offer from the School Committee, and the Canton Alliance for Public Education (CAPE), which provides grants to support innovative teaching practices and programs, announced it would dissolve at this time next year unless the group can find […]
The School Committee and Board of Selectmen will make a joint selection to fill the unexpired term of School Committee member Liz Salisbury, who informed the committee on June 12 that she will resign from her position. Salisbury’s family is relocating to the Pittsburgh area because her husband, Dean, has found a new position there. […]
Sunday morning offered ideal running conditions with perfect weather and clear blue skies as nearly 1,400 participants of all ages turned out at the Village Shoppes to run, walk, or jog the first-ever Halfway 5K Road
The current owner of Reservoir Pond, the Illinois-based Napleton Company, has reached an agreement with town officials and the state Office of Dam Safety on technical repairs for the Pleasant Street dam, and repairs are expected to get underway by early July. The project will take four to six weeks, and there may be times […]
An unidentified man passed away at Norwood Hospital after going into cardiac arrest at Friday’s graduation exercises at Canton High School. Fire Chief Charlie Doody said the man left the CHS gymnasium not feeling well and was found outside the gym by spectators, who started CPR. Others called 911 and an ambulance crew on scene […]
