Canton held its annual Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 27, ending with a ceremony at the American Legion Walk of Honor. Above: Peter Pineo drives veterans in the hay wagon. (Mary Ellen Cahill photo)
Life is good, the Boston-based lifestyle brand committed to spreading the power of optimism and helping kids in need, announced last week that Yo Gabba Gabba! will headline the kids’ lineup at the 2013 Life is good Festival on September 21-22 at Prowse Farm in Canton. Characters from the award-winning live action television series and […]
Though it took nearly three hours of debate and many questions, Canton voters eventually gave the green light to a 225-unit senior housing development on Route 138 at the second and final session of annual town meeting last Wednesday, May 15. The end result was the formation of a new Senior Housing Overlay District (SHOD) […]
It isn’t often that a leader gets to walk away from his post immediately after achieving his number-one organizational priority, but that was indeed the case for Canton’s John Friel, who recently got to celebrate the end of his two-year run as chairman of the Council on Aging with the promise of a new senior […]
It’s almost summer, which means that it’s time once again for the Board of Health, along with other Canton town departments and community groups to hold their fifth annual Summer Fun and Safety Fair on Friday, May 31, from 5-8 p.m. at Pequitside Farm. Anyone who enjoys a nice relaxing day out with the family […]
“Team Hansen” is what it has been called since Peter Boucher stepped in as interim principal of the Lt. Peter M. Hansen School in September of 2011. The phrase “dream team” doesn’t begin to cover it. In the last year and a half, not only has Boucher created a team atmosphere among students, faculty and […]
All are invited to join the Friends of the Blue Hills for a spring festival of stewardship and fun. The annual Green Up Day will be held on Sunday, June 2, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Ponkapoag AMC Cabins. Volunteers will enjoy music, face painting, crafts and a scavenger hunt while helping with an essential […]
A 24-year-old Stoughton man was arraigned from his hospital bed at Boston Medical Center on Monday on charges stemming from a one-car crash on Bolivar Street late Friday night that killed his passenger and friend, Evan Bard, 20, of Agawam. Sean Jackman, a resident of Howland Street in Stoughton, was charged with motor vehicle homicide, […]
Town meeting voters at Monday’s opening session overwhelmingly approved a transfer of $1.36 million from Canton’s free cash reserves to quicken the renovation of the previously purchased Knights of Columbus building on Pleasant Street into a fully operational senior center, perhaps as soon as next spring. The transfer augments last year’s town meeting appropriation along […]
The first session of the 2013 annual town meeting adjourned a little after 10:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, with most of the 41-article warrant completed. Only the main budget article for FY14, plus three zoning articles concerning a proposed Senior Housing Overlay District (SHOD) on Route 138 and a few other articles remained. Selectmen […]
