The CHS baseball team punched its ticket to the Division 3 south sectional tournament for the second consecutive year with a thrilling 1-0 win over Foxboro last week. The Bulldogs enter the playoffs with a 4-4 record against D3 opponents. The 6-12 Bulldogs were due to wrap up the regular season this week with a […]
The School Committee last week enthusiastically welcomed newly hired CHS Principal Derek Folan, who signed a contract and will begin his duties July 1. Folan will leave his current position as assistant principal at Franklin High School. In his introduction to the School Committee Thursday night, Folan said he will treat each student as a […]
The fortunes of the CHS baseball team picked up last week as the Bulldogs played some good baseball, losing 1-0 to Sharon before coming back to beat Bedford 5-1 at home on Friday. The win ended an eight-game losing streak. Now 5-10, the Bulldogs could still make the playoffs if they can beat Bedford again […]
Both CHS outdoor track teams go into this week’s Hockomock League Championships winless, but the boys’ team came very close to its first win, losing by two points last week to Foxboro 68-66. The girls’ team was defeated by the Warriors 90-46. Derek Seto led the boys with two first-place finishes as he won both […]
Canton’s 2012 Annual Town Meeting concluded at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, with voters approving a $73.9 million operating budget for fiscal year 2013, which represents a 2.7 percent increase over this year’s budget. The budget will preserve all staff positions while funding some partial staff restorations and program additions to the school department […]
Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz said police will be issuing charges to a 17-year-old Milton student who allegedly wrote a threatening bomb scare note and left it in a wastebasket at Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical School. The note led school and law enforcement officials to evacuate all students and staff on Monday morning, April […]
In a 3-2 vote, selectmen voted to reappoint John Marini Sr. to the Zoning Board of Appeals, with two members expressing concern about a possible conflict of interest involving Marini’s development company. Voting to reappoint him were Selectmen Chairman John Connolly and selectmen Avril Elkort and Sal Salvatori. Opposing the reappointment were selectmen Bob Burr […]
What began as an idea in January is on a fast track to becoming reality as town meeting voters approved two key budget transfers to pave the way for a new senior center on the grounds of the Knights of
Related: Town meeting approves senior center transfer In contrast to last year’s controversial tie vote, there wasn’t much opposition to the local option meals tax at this year’s Annual Town Meeting, with voters overwhelmingly approving the 0.75 percent tax hike during the first session on Monday, April 30. The new tax, which takes effect July […]
The CHS baseball team has hit a wall, having lost four consecutive games to fall to 4-7 at the midpoint of the season. In action last week the Bulldogs were defeated 5-1 in extra innings by King Philip. Oliver Ames freshman pitcher Brendan Welch threw a no-hitter at Canton en route to a 5-0 Tiger […]
