Unlike last year, the Canton School Committee is in a mode of restoring rather than cutting programs and staff after receiving positive news from the town’s Revenue Committee, which came back with a bottom-line projection of $31.77 million for next year’s operating budget. School Committee members had prepared three versions of the budget in anticipation […]
Another Canton High School student has returned home from the hospital after sustaining serious injuries in a two-car accident on York Street on Friday, March 2. However, one student remains in serious condition at a Boston hospital. The accident injured seven people in all, including six CHS students, all of whom were traveling in one […]
The financial investigation into the Recreation Department that was alluded to in a recent announcement by the Board of Selectmen has its roots in the Canton Travel Basketball program, according to two town officials with direct knowledge of the situation. The prepared statement by selectmen, which first appeared on the town website on February 10, […]
As was the case all over Massachusetts on Tuesday, former Governor Mitt Romney sailed to an easy victory in Canton in the Republican primary election, garnering over 78 percent of the local vote to easily beat out Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Romney, who collected 72 percent of the vote statewide, carried each of Canton’s […]
On Saturday, March 24, at Lombardo’s in Randolph, Canton resident Courtland Priest will compete against 24 of the region’s top spellers in the Comcast South Shore Regional Spelling Bee for a chance to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the renowned Scripps National Spelling Bee. Priest, an eighth grader, won the qualifying bee at […]
Selectmen Chairman John Connolly reacted strongly Tuesday night to a mailing sent to residents alleging that selectmen and Town Administrator Bill Friel are having work conducted on a solar energy facility at the site of the former Pine Street landfill by non-licensed electricians and without an electrical permit. The postcard depicts a ticking clock on […]
The co-presidents of the Canton Association of Business and Industry (CABI) told selectmen Tuesday night that while they agree with the “pillars” of the proposed Community Preservation Act, the association will oppose its adoption in Canton because of the additional tax burden on businesses. The act would add a 1 percent tax on homes and […]
As a child, Canton High School junior Dan Kazenel took violin and piano lessons. When he was 8 years old, he heard a cello played at a concert and made a life-altering decision. “Mom, I want to play that,” he said to his mother. Kazenel, 16, will play the cello at Symphony Hall this weekend […]
Already mulling a zoning change that would prevent any new residences from being built in downtown Canton, the town’s Planning Board last week decided, by the slimmest of margins, not to support a bid by two local developers to build a seven-unit condominium project on Plymouth Street. The project in question, submitted by Scott Lenhart […]
CHS Principal Doug Dias has announced plans to reduce the number of college preparatory tracking levels at the high school from two to one, while at the same time enhancing a student resource center with more money and staff from the major subject areas. Dias, who presented the plan to the School Committee last Thursday, […]
