The town of Canton issued the following statement last week in response to a newly filed lawsuit pertaining to the discovery of offensive text-message exchanges between former State Trooper Michael Proctor and ex-CPD Sergeant Sean Goode. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by Karen Read, names both the Mass. State Police and Canton Police Department as […]
Current Canton Fire Captain Jamie Meier was the unanimous choice of the Select Board to be the town’s next fire chief following interviews with the two finalists on Tuesday evening, May 19. Meier will now negotiate with Human Resources Director Jody Middleton and Interim Town Administrator Jen Kemalian on a new contract. All of the […]
**See below for an update from the Randolph Police Department.** A group of Hansen Elementary students witnessed what school leaders characterized as a “very difficult and disturbing” scene on Tuesday morning after an irate parent boarded his child’s school bus and physically assaulted the driver. The incident occurred on Bus C10 at the Prynne Hills […]
According to a post by Canton Firefighters Local 1580, a male pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a motor vehicle on Bolivar Street near the town pool complex on Tuesday evening, April 28, at approximately 8:20 p.m. Fire Lt. John Hutchinson said Fire Captain Jamie Meier requested a Boston MedFlight helicopter while Deputy […]
Earlier this week, the Canton Select Board approved the appointment of Michael Gifford Cruz as the Canton Police Department’s new deputy chief of administration. Canton Police Chief Michael Daniels said the appointment is part of an administrative
On Thursday, March 19, at approximately 6:50 p.m., Canton firefighters responded to a 911 call for a vehicle collision in front of a commercial property at 100 Washington Street, between Marathon Physical Therapy and Wild Duck Wine & Spirits. Fire Lt. John Hutchinson said the vehicle had stuck a support column but stopped short of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
