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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Canton Writes, the annual town-wide writing contest, once again invites everyone in Canton to sharpen their pencils or fire up their laptops and become the authors they are meant to be. The contest will begin on February 2 this year. Authors can enter in one of five age groups: grades K-2, grades 3-5, middle school, […]
The Canton Affordable Housing Trust and Canton Select Board are expected to make a decision soon on whether to retain ownership of the former Gridley School building on Washington Street or sell it to a nonprofit developer to convert it into affordable housing units. At an informational sessional held via Zoom last Wednesday, January 14, […]
Unhappy with the circumstances surrounding the removal of Anthony Fallon as Canton High’s head football coach, a group of approximately 35 parents, players and alumni took their message to the School Committee last week, touting his track record as coach while urging school leaders to reinstate him. Fallon, a CHS alum and former Bulldog player, […]
With a new police chief named last week, the Canton Select Board and Town Administrator Charles Doody will now turn their attention to hiring a new fire chief. Towards the end of their meeting on Tuesday night, Doody announced that Canton’s current fire chief, Wendell Robery, is approaching the state-mandated retirement age for fire chiefs […]
