Canton students of all ages – from elementary to high school to alumni – are pitching in to help the less fortunate. Below are just a few examples of recent charitable acts: * Griffin Lincoln, a fifth grader at the Kennedy School, held his second annual candy drive for the patients at Dana Farber Cancer […]
Americans received a bit of encouraging economic news last week when the U.S. Department of Commerce reported better than expected growth in the third quarter to go along with steady increases in housing prices and a modest decline in the number of jobless claims. It is a promising snapshot to be sure, yet it’s hardly […]
The town’s financial planners will need to be creative with capital budget funding options for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2013. As of this week debt capital requests total $1.976 million — far exceeding the $241,000 available for capital funding. Department heads presented their requests to selectmen Tuesday night. Leading the list […]
More questions than answers came out of a progress report of the South Coast Rail Project heard Tuesday night at Town Hall. The project, which will bring rail service to Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford, will originate in Boston’s South Station and travel through the Canton and Stoughton rail corridors. The same questions posed […]
A combination of Canton and Massachusetts State Police and the Metro Area SWAT Team calmed a potentially dangerous domestic situation involving a firearm on Tuesday, November 20, at noon. Milton police alerted Canton police to a domestic disturbance in which a man allegedly pointed a gun at a woman. The woman then drove the man […]
It was a morning of solemn reflection but also one of redemption and hope as a small group of community leaders gathered at St. Mary’s Cemetery last Thursday to honor the life and legacy of Shaun Ouillette, the young man who was brutally murdered by a fellow Canton High School classmate 26 years ago. Held […]
The Canton Community Theatre is proud to open the holiday season with the production of The Night Before Christmas, a play produced by Dramatic Publishing and based on the classic poem by Clement Clark Moore. The Canton Community Theatre has put on holiday shows in past years, including the classic production A Christmas Carol at Canton […]
More than 30 decorated trees will be displayed and raffled to lucky winners as part of the first Winterfest Celebration at the Massachusetts Hospital School, located at 3 Randolph Street in Canton. Winterfest begins Friday evening, November 30, and will conclude with a raffle drawing on Friday, December 7. The upcoming holiday celebration combines fundraising […]
After sending home a letter to parents about each school’s MCAS scores, school administrators presented a plan to the School Committee last week with the goal of unifying the district curriculum and improving all student scores this spring. Superintendent Jeff Granatino reported that last year’s scores as a whole were above average, adding that there […]
Selectmen on Tuesday night acted upon the recommendation of assessors and raised the residential and commercial property tax rates for the next fiscal year. The residential rate will increase from $11.91 to $12.30 per thousand valuation, and the commercial rate will rise from $24.23 to $24.99 per thousand. Canton is one of only a handful […]
