
St. Louis Blues executive vice president and general manager Doug Armstrong announced last week that the club has named Canton native Dan Brooks as an assistant coach for the Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. Brooks begins his professional coaching career with the Rivermen after 14 seasons as an assistant coach at both […]
For the second consecutive year, the Dean S. Luce Elementary School has failed to meet state performance and improvement targets on the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS test – albeit by the slimmest of margins – and must now join the list of Massachusetts schools that have been “identified for improvement” under federal […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner

Joins with local partners to create care packages for troops In honor of the National Day of Service to honor and remember those lost on September 11, 2001, Life is good will galvanize volunteers and partners to assemble care packages for local troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan at the 2010 Life is good Festival […]
Sep 2 2010 | Posted in
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Canton Citizen

It’s only a “preliminary recommendation,” but a Court Relocation Committee, formed to help the Massachusetts Court System close a reported $21 million budget gap this fiscal year, has proposed relocating a number of district courts across the state, including the shifting of Stoughton District Court’s services to courts in Dedham and Wrentham. As local law […]
Amy Sasin, a Canton native who has achieved success playing and coaching at two of the most highly-regarded softball programs in the region, is the new head softball coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Sasin served as an assistant coach at Wheaton College in Norton for three seasons, assisting in all phases of the […]

In the spirit of spreading “good vibes” and raising as much money as possible for kids in need, Boston-based apparel company Life is good decided to go all-out with its annual music festival this year, partnering with Superfly Productions of Bonnaroo fame to transform it into an event that people would circle on their calendars […]
Aug 26 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
He’s been pegged as a “shooting star,” an energetic, results-driven leader who went from being a student teacher to being the head of a school district in a little less than two decades’ time. But after years of riding the fast track, Jeff Granatino, Canton’s new superintendent of schools, is now ready to settle into […]
Aug 26 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner
The Hockomock League will have a distinctly new look this year when sports get underway next month, with a new school, Attleboro, coming into the fold, along with the debut of two five-team divisions based on enrollment figures. The new format will impact most varsity sports at Canton High School; however, the football schedule will […]
Aug 19 2010 | Posted in
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News,
Sports | By
Mike Berger
After 43 years of service to the town, Buddy Fallon, the superintendent of buildings and grounds, retired July 23. The Canton that Fallon experienced when he first began working for the tree department in June 1967 was different from the town that residents know today. Open space was abundant in the sparsely populated town of […]
The area in front of the Dean S. Luce School that abuts Pleasant Street will be a construction zone when school reopens to students on September 7, but new Superintendent of Schools Jeff Granatino is confident that the project — which involves building a circular driveway to accommodate bus traffic — will not become a […]
Aug 12 2010 | Posted in
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Jay Turner