After a successful first two years following the adoption of a new municipal energy aggregation program dubbed “Canton Electricity Choice,” town leaders are now setting their sights on a potential renewal of the program — assuming, of course, that the price is still right. That was the key takeaway from a presentation to the Select […]
Mar 5 2026 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Jay Turner
Thanks to the quick thinking and expertise of neighboring firefighters/paramedics from Norwood and Canton, a 35-year-old Newton woman is on the road to recovery after being struck by an MBTA bus in downtown Norwood earlier this week. The accident occurred around 3:50 p.m. on Monday, March 2, across from Norwood Town Hall in front of […]
Mar 5 2026 | Posted in
News,
Police & Fire | By
Jay Turner
Canton citizens of all ages are invited to participate in Keep Canton Beautiful, the 5th Annual Townwide Canton Cleanup, on Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Keep Canton Beautiful is a community of people who live and work in Canton and want to keep our town as beautiful and litter-free as possible. […]

The near 24-hour snowstorm that hit the region earlier this week dumped over 25 inches of snow; closed Town Hall and the Canton schools for two days; and caused several downed trees and branches, including one tree that fell on a house on Messinger Street. According to DPW Operations Director Bill Walsh, the town utilized […]
Feb 27 2026 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Mike Berger
Seven years after squaring off in one of the town of Canton’s closest-ever political races, former Select Board colleagues Lisa Lopez and Mike Loughran are again vying for the same office — this time with a seat on Beacon Hill on the line. Earlier this week, both Lopez and Loughran announced that they would be […]
Feb 27 2026 | Posted in
News | By
Jay Turner

In front of a packed audience in the Salah Meeting Room at Town Hall, with many of his family members and fellow police officers in attendance, Michael K. Daniels was officially sworn in as Canton’s newest police chief at the start of Tuesday’s Select Board meeting. After taking the oath administered by Town Clerk Tracey […]
Feb 20 2026 | Posted in
News,
Police & Fire | By
Mike Berger

The field has been set for the 2026 annual town election, and once again, a contested race for Select Board will be the headliner on the April ballot after four candidates returned papers by Tuesday’s nomination deadline for two open seats on the board. With Select Board member Chris Albert opting not to seek reelection […]
The Canton Fire Department is asking for the public’s help in digging out the town’s fire hydrants that were buried in the January 25-26 snowstorm. “All we ask is for a three-foot radius around the hydrant,” noted Canton Firefighters IAFF Local 1580 in a recent social media post. “If the hydrant is not directly at […]

Interim Police Chief Joseph Perkins reported last week that Canton Police officers were able to successfully de-escalate a situation involving an armed individual experiencing a mental health crisis inside the police station lobby on Wednesday afternoon, January 21. According to Perkins, at approximately 3:40 p.m., an individual walked into the CPD headquarters at 1492 Washington […]
Jan 30 2026 | Posted in
News,
Police & Fire | By
Canton Citizen
Forty-nine DPW snow removal trucks and 16 private contractors worked around the clock to combat the more than 25 inches of snow that fell over the area between Sunday morning and Tuesday morning. Town crews started working around 11 a.m. on Sunday to treat the roads and worked for a total of approximately 50 hours. […]
Jan 30 2026 | Posted in
News,
Town Government | By
Mike Berger