Town officials remained on high alert this week for continued flooding after another batch of heavy rain hit the region on Tuesday, dumping more than two inches of precipitation on already rain-soaked areas of the state. Meanwhile, the lesson learned by Canton emergency agencies last week is that once the rains had stopped, the roadway […]
CHS high jumper Matt Sidney ended the indoor track season last weekend in the Nationals where he tied for 14th at six feet, two and one quarter inches. Earlier this season at the Hockomock League Championship Meet he broke the school’s winter indoor record and tied the Hockomock League indoor meet record at 6’9”. But […]
One building at the Waterfall Hills residential complex off Bolivar Street was evacuated on Monday after a dam burst within the complex. The management agency of Waterfall Hills was able to relocate the 25 residents at vacant units and hotels. Bolivar Street was closed for much of Monday and reopened Tuesday morning, but residents at […]
Based on his performance in last weekend’s New England indoor track championships, CHS high jumper Matt Sidney qualified for the upcoming national championships, which will take place this weekend at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. Sidney finished in a tie for 11th place among 17 competitors with a best jump of six feet, […]
Selectmen will submit a balanced budget to the Finance Committee and elected to only spend $52,000 in new money for the five municipal departments that requested additional spending beyond their level-funded budgets. Although the five departments’ new requests totaled more than $175,000, selectmen followed the suggestion of their chairman, Sal Salvatori, and authorized $4,254 to […]
Canton High will be sending three members of its boys’ and girls’ indoor track teams — junior high jumper Matt Sidney, senior shot-putter Amarachi Njoku and senior sprinter Samantha Smith — to the New England Track Championships this Friday night at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. The trio qualified for the New England […]
Selectmen are not anticipating layoffs or any other major program cuts in the municipal budget for the upcoming fiscal year, yet they are also not expecting much in the way of additional funds either. That was the message delivered Tuesday night to five of the town’s department heads, who appeared before the board bearing nearly […]
Down by 20 points going into the fourth quarter, the CHS boys’ basketball team staged a ferocious comeback and came within five points of tying the game before falling 69-60 to an 11-7 Bishop Stang team Tuesday night in the first round of the Division 3 playoffs. The Bulldogs ended the season at 8-13. Canton […]
Both the girls’ and boys’ CHS indoor track teams finished a very respectable fifth place in last weekend’s Division 3 Indoor Track Championships, held at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. Because of their excellent performances, several Canton individuals will continue on to the All-State Championships scheduled for Friday, February 26, also at the […]
With strong performances in the sprints and the shot put, the CHS girls’ indoor track team finished fifth in the Hockomock League Championships, one point behind fourth place North Attleboro. The best events for Canton was the 55-meter dash, in which Canton had three of the top 10 finishers, and the shot put, in which […]
