With the unanimous support of the School Committee, the Canton Public Schools will soon shift to a new at-home COVID testing program that calls for a focus on symptomatic testing and puts rapid antigen tests in the hands of all staff and students. The tests will be supplied by the state Department of Elementary and […]
Firefighters extinguish warehouse fire on Will Dr. On Thursday, January 20, firefighters from Canton and three neighboring communities joined forces to battle a fire at the FW Webb building on Will Drive. The Canton Fire Department received the initial call shortly before 11 p.m. and responding crews found fire inside the warehouse with the sprinklers […]
The Canton Select Board and the town’s newly established Housing Trust Committee are considering whether the trust should pursue its first real estate opportunity by purchasing an affordable housing unit in the Turtle Brook condominium complex located off Route 138. The current owner of the unit has defaulted on payments and the property may go […]
It all started over the recent school vacation week with an impressive, 57-52 away win over nonleague Hingham. Since then, the CHS girls basketball team has kept its foot on the gas, topping 80 points twice last week in consecutive blowout wins over Taunton and North Attleboro. Earlier this week, the Bulldogs added another quality […]
After opening the season with back-to-back losses despite two solid performances, the Canton High gymnastics team managed to break into the win column with another strong effort against Taunton last Saturday at Metro South Gymnastics Academy. With a combination of talent, enthusiasm and perseverance, the Bulldogs were able to narrowly hold off the Tigers while […]
Canton students and staff made their return to school on Monday following the recent holiday break, and early indications suggest that the schools are weathering the surge in COVID cases, albeit with a higher than usual amount of student absences on the first day back on Monday, January 3. Interim School Superintendent Derek Folan said […]
A screening committee consisting of Playground & Recreation Commission Chair JR McCourt, Human Resources Director Jody Middleton, Town Administrator Charlie Aspinwall, and now Select Board member and former Rec. Commission Chair Tom Theodore will soon begin scheduling interviews for the pool of 11 applicants who have applied for the position of Canton Parks & Recreation […]
At 7:50 a.m. on Friday, December 24, Canton firefighters responded to a report of a fire at Sika Sarnafil, a major manufacturer of rubber roofing systems located at 100 Dan Road. Fire Chief Charles Doody, who was at the scene, said the fire was inside a piece of manufacturing equipment at the rear of the […]
In a reversal from previous projections made just a few years ago, Canton school administrators are now anticipating a slight decline in total school enrollment over the next five years with a projected net loss of 69 students across grades K-12. In a presentation given at last Thursday’s School Committee meeting, Stephen Marshall, CPS director […]
Interim School Superintendent Derek Folan was pleased to share encouraging COVID vaccination trends among Canton’s younger students dating to early November, when the vaccine first became available in the United States for kids ages 5-11. Reporting on the latest vaccination data at last Thursday’s School Committee meeting, Folan said that 16 percent of children ages […]
