The rain-shortened week ended on a bang-bang play at the plate as the Canton American Legion Post 24 baseball team fell to Brookline 2-1 on Sunday. With all the rain last week, Canton only managed to get in two other games: an 8-0 win over Foxboro thanks to an outstanding pitching performance by team ace […]
On Friday night, June 17, Canton Firefighter/EMT John Buckley and Police Officer Robert Zepf were both honored as the 2011 recipients of the Knights of Columbus Richard A. Stein Public Safety Awards at a special ceremony at the K of C Hall on Pleasant Street. Zepf was singled out for his quick thinking and heroic […]
The closed-door contract negotiations between the Canton Teachers Association and the School Committee spilled out into the public arena last Thursday, June 16, when an estimated 200 teachers packed the CHS Distance Learning Lab to protest the committee’s most recent contract offer while calling for an end to mediation and a return to face-to-face negotiations. […]
The School Committee plans to form an advisory panel to study whether high school graduation activities should be moved to another date and location. The advisory panel will be made up of school and town officials, teachers, former students and CHS alumni. The move comes after rain caused both this year’s and last year’s graduation […]
Selectmen reluctantly approved the water and sewer rate increases recommended last month by the Water/Sewer Rate Committee, noting that the increases were caused in part by a spike in the Mass. Water Resources Authority’s (MWRA) assessment to the town. The new rates will take effect July 1, resulting in an average annual increase of $18.12 […]
With improved weather, the Canton A’s raised their record to 3-5 and are now sixth in the Cranberry League baseball standings. The week ended on a high note when first-year A’s player Chuck Erickson clubbed a 350-foot grand slam over Memorial Field’s right field fence to give the A’s a come-from-behind, 4-3 win over Plymouth […]
Although the summer baseball season started off strong for the Canton American Legion Post 24 team — with two sparkling wins over Brookline and Foxboro — the young team hit a few bumps in the road with losses to Walpole (18-2) and Norwood (12-1), considered the two best teams in District 6 West. And despite […]
Selectmen approved a new re-precincting plan as suggested by the Secretary of State’s Election Division and presented by Town Clerk Tracy Kenney in an unusual Wednesday afternoon selectmen’s meeting on June 8. Although it is not official, selectmen approved the plans and sent it to the secretary of state and the Local Election Districts Review […]
CPD establishes drug take-back bin The Canton Police Department has introduced a new drug take-back collection container, located in the foyer of the police station on Washington Street. Lt. Patty Sherrill said the department, working in partnership with the Norfolk County district attorney’s office under the leadership of DA Michael Morrissey, as well as the […]
Canton High senior Jon Vaughn ran the last race of his high school career at the New England Championships in Vermont on Saturday. He was seeded 11th in the 100-meter race and finished in 11th with a time of 11.41 seconds. The overall winner was Blackstone-Millville Regional’s Brett Buskey, who finished with a time of […]
