A suddenly promising budget outlook and a chance to improve the town’s long-term fiscal position will be among the major themes of Canton’s 2012 Annual Town Meeting, which kicks off Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the CHS Morse Auditorium. While there are still plenty of moving parts that could impact the town’s bottom […]
On Tuesday, April 17, at approximately 9:45 p.m., Canton firefighters responded to a fire at a residence on Brayton Circle owned by the Canton Housing Authority. The fire started outside and spread to a shed and eventually a home before being detected. An aggressive attack by firefighters from Station 2 under the command of Lieutenant […]
Canton town officials delivered some good news about water and sewer rates on Tuesday, with selectmen approving a slight increase in sewer costs and no changes to the existing water rates in the upcoming fiscal year. The sewer rate will go up 2.33 percent, or $6.29 per quarter for the average Canton sewer user, which […]
A group of eight Canton firefighters and representatives of various local agencies worked to free a horse stuck in the mud near Ponkapoag Pond on Friday, April 13, around 3 p.m. Firefighters used straps to pull the horse free as representatives from the Animal Rescue League, State Police, Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office, and the state […]
A husband and wife from Canton, Boris and Margaret Baron, both 67, of Shaw Farm Road, were killed last Thursday, April 12, after being struck by a motorist while out walking on Will Drive shortly after 8:30 p.m. The couple was transported by ambulance to Boston Medical Center that night, but both succumbed to their […]
The Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Center, a self-proclaimed school of last resort and currently the only one in the nation using electric shock therapy as a behavior modification tool, has found itself at the center of yet another controversy after video surveillance footage of a student being restrained and then repeatedly shocked was played in a […]
Floral arranger Joan Marie Driscoll, owner of Floral Scents in Canton, and assistant arranger Maribel Powell, president of the Canton Garden Club, will represent the Garden Club during Art in Bloom 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This three-day festival showcasing flower arranging as an art form takes place Saturday to Monday, […]
The Open Book: Canton Public Library News If you are out and about on April 23 you just might be lucky enough to receive a free book as part of World Book Night — the annual celebration of reading held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland. It will see tens of […]
With the local Knights of Columbus council deciding it’s time to get out of the hall rental business, the Canton Council on Aging has swooped in with an eye toward making the Pleasant Street property its new home. While COA Chairman John Friel stressed that the idea is still in the preliminary stages, he did […]
The School Committee has asked Superintendent Jeff Granatino and Galvin Middle School Principal Dr. William Conard to review the decision to cut the first- and second-year German instructional programs at the middle school and to see if any compromise can be made to restore some of the classes for next year. Approximately 20 parents, students, […]
