After more than 30 years of dedicated service to the town of Canton, Town Administrator and former Fire Chief Charles E. Doody will retire on April 10. Transition plans will be announced at the Select Board meeting on March 31. Board Chair JR McCourt said after April 10, Assistant Town Administrator Jen Kemalian will serve […]
Boston magazine recently released its “definitive” ranking of the Top Places to Live in Greater Boston, and the town of Canton once again earned some very respectable scores, besting nearly 100 other eastern Massachusetts communities to come in at No. 43 overall. This marks the second year in a row that the magazine has partnered […]
In a span of just two days last week, Canton Police charged three individuals with malicious destruction of property in separate and unrelated incidents. The first incident occurred on the morning of Thursday, March 5, in the parking lot of Norfolk County Probate Court on Shawmut Road and involved a dispute between parties that started […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
