The CHS gymnastics team opened the 2015-2016 season with an away loss to North Attleboro (132.15-120.55) on December 23. The team is led by second-year head coach Juliette Marcotti, and their goal this season is to pick up their first meet win in two years. Last year, the team averaged 120 points per meet but […]
The CHS boys basketball team is looking for better results after suffering back-to-back blowout losses to Franklin and Foxboro last week. The Bulldogs lost to the Panthers 61-24 on the road on December 15 and then fell to the Warriors at home 60-17 two days later. “It’s a long season,” said head coach Ryan Gordy. […]
The Canton School Committee agreed with the recommendations of Interim School Superintendent Jen Henderson and decided last week that elementary and middle school students would begin preparing for the new “MCAS 2.0” test by taking the PARCC exam in various forms this spring. Elementary students will take a paper-and-pencil version of the test while middle […]
The CHS indoor track teams opened their season on Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston with a pair of losses to Sharon. “Sharon is a very tough team on both the girls and boys side,” said head coach Anna Amico after the meet. “I feel that our athletes came out and competed very hard […]
Selectmen Chairman John Connolly sounded support for tuition-free, full-day kindergarten at Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting as School Committee members and school administrators outlined the project before the board. Although Connolly said his inbox was flooded with emails from eager parents on Sunday, he said, “I am now over it” and praised the program and […]
The Blue Ribbon Traffic Committee plans to submit three articles onto the 2016 town meeting warrant. The first article proposes a synchronization study of the downtown traffic lights. The second calls for preliminary engineering work on the intersection at Randolph and Washington streets, and the third proposes additional solar and crosswalk signs around town. The […]
The Canton School Committee decided last week to move forward with tuition-free, full-day kindergarten for the next school year and not to phase in the program over a period of multiple years. The main question now is how to fund the program as the committee concluded that it could not pay for the nearly $750,000 […]
A Brockton man will face an assortment of charges stemming from a four-vehicle crash at the intersection of Neponset and Jackson streets on Saturday, December 5, around 4:30 p.m. Two passengers were taken to area hospitals with injuries. Deputy Police Chief Helena Rafferty said passengers gave a description of a black pickup truck that apparently […]
In an impactful meeting that lasted nearly three hours Tuesday night, the Canton Board of Selectmen approved a new tax rate for this year; agreed to make an offer to a new town administrator; and heard a plan by the fire chief to join a regional dispatch communications center out of Holbrook. Selectmen approved the […]
The discussion on school space needs continued at last week’s School Committee meeting as new information surfaced on a proposed modular classroom addition at the Kennedy School and a standalone school administration building at the Paul Revere Heritage site. The most immediate effect of both items is that the committee will now proceed with a […]
