• School Superintendent Jeff Granatino announced that Kimberly Sefrino will be the new Kennedy School principal, effective July 1. Sefrino will replace Jan Chamberlain, who is serving as interim principal this year after previous JFK Principal Jennifer Henderson was named the district’s director of curriculum and instruction. Sefrino has been a teacher and principal in […]
As a way to honor their fellow police officers and firefighters who were killed in the line of duty on September 11, 2001, the Canton Fire and Police departments will host a gala at the Blue Hill Country Club on May 14. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Canton Area Helpline. “This is […]
Mad Agnes returns to the Open Book Coffeehouse by popular demand on Saturday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. The Open Book Coffeehouse is located at the Canton Public Library, 786 Washington Street, and is made possible by the Friends of the Library. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students. Mad Agnes is not […]
The Canton High School drama club delivered two impressive performances of Harvey (1944), the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase, on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26. Later adapted into a popular film starring Jimmy Stewart, Harvey tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd and his imaginary best friend: a six-foot, three-and-a-half-inch tall rabbit. […]
After town clerk Tracey Kenney learned the seven races in the upcoming April 5 town election would be uncontested, she spoke with the election commission at the secretary of state’s office to see if the town could forgo this year’s municipal election. Skipping the election would save the town $8,000 to $10,000 in costs associated […]
Within days, Canton firefighters — with help from neighboring towns — battled two house fires: one at 1842 Washington Street on Wednesday, March 16, and the other on Monday afternoon, March 21, at 119 Pecunit Street. No one was in either home at the time of the fire and no firefighters were injured. Both fires, […]
One cannot turn on the television lately without seeing and hearing of the sad aftermath of the natural and man-made string of disasters that have transpired recently in Japan. The ongoing events resulting from the 9.0 earthquake, followed by a devastating tsunami, and the ensuing meltdown of multiple nuclear facilities in Japan on March 11, […]
Charles Owens cannot help but brim with confidence and optimism as he ponders the future of alternative energy in Canton. To Owens, one of four members of Canton’s crack energy committee, conveniently dubbed the “Green Team,” the impending amendments to the town’s already cutting-edge energy policy are simply an act of common sense. “Why are […]
Faced with a structural deficit and fresh out of one-time revenue sources to help soften the blow, members of the Canton School Committee delivered a painful warning to the community last week in what they hoped were crystal-clear terms: Budget cuts are coming, and this time, they will be unavoidable. While cuts have been a […]
On Wednesday, March 2, the third grade from the Dean S. Luce School took a field trip to the Norwood Town Hall, which houses a rare instrument called a carillon. A carillon is a series of bells that are housed in the tower of a large building. There are only 146 carillons in the United […]
