Selectmen will have some tough choices to make in the coming weeks as they attempt to whittle down more than $4 million in capital spending requests to fit within the FY18 budget target of $1.34 million. At their meeting on Tuesday night, selectmen heard presentations from department heads and will wait for recommendations from Town […]
Canton School Committee members want some answers concerning two discouraging trends found in the 2016 Massachusetts School Report Cards that were recently released by the state education department. The committee is alarmed by a system-wide drop in the composite performance index (CPI) score in science from a high of 89.1 in 2013 to 86.5 in […]
The Board of Selectmen and Town Counsel Paul DeRensis are negotiating with Fresenius Kabi, a global health care company based in Germany, to open a new facility at 20 Dan Road in Canton, the site of the former Copley Controls Co., which left the town five years ago. The enticement for the company is a […]
Several Canton police officers and firefighters worked to extricate three accident victims from a wet swampy area near Brad’s Glass at 872 Turnpike Street (Route 138) on Saturday, November 19, around 8:15 p.m. All three victims were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to Deputy Police Chief Helena Rafferty, the […]
Canton police plan to bring three Connecticut residents to court and charge them with felony counts of larceny over $250 (false pretenses) after officials found a town of Canton vendor account had been compromised. Detective John Ruane was credited with cracking the case, and he is in the process of summoning the three individuals to […]
The residential tax rate for the upcoming year will remain stable and the commercial tax rate will drop two cents. However, property tax bills will still increase because assessments continue to rise. In a report to selectmen Tuesday night, Bill Galvin, chairman of the Board of Assessors, stated that the average single family assessment in […]
For the first time this year, the CHS football team enjoyed a dominant win over an opponent, leading from wire to wire and playing all of its reserves in the fourth quarter en route to a 42-16 victory over Oliver Ames at home Friday night. The win was Canton’s second in as many games and […]
With the CHS fall sports season almost completed and no further home playoff or football games scheduled, the School Department has decided to begin renovations to the CHS turf field this week. As a result of the construction, the public will not be able to use the field or track for at least a month […]
For the fourth consecutive year the CHS girls soccer team, coached by Kate Howarth, has qualified for the state tournament, finishing the regular season at 8-6-2 and in second place in the Davenport Division of the Hockomock League. Last week the girls started on a bad note, blowing a 2-0 lead with 26 minutes left […]
Selectman John Connolly voiced his displeasure with Columbia Gas construction supervisor Justin Brown on Tuesday night over the utility company’s repeated practice of working past agreed-upon deadlines at various gas projects around town this past construction season. Columbia Gas requested longer days in November to complete the York Street gas main project (two days’ worth […]
