DID YOU KNOW… Autumn officially arrived yesterday, September 22, which means the baseball season is almost over. Whatever the season, baseball doesn’t appear to be over for white-haired and bearded “Spaceman” Bill Lee, the 63-year-old left-handed former pitcher for the Red Sox who recently won the game he pitched for the Brockton Rox against the Worcester […]
DID YOU KNOW… Canton’s sixth annual homecoming celebration is coming up on Saturday, September 25. It will get underway at 8:30 a.m. with the annual Reebok/Canton Homecoming Road Race, which starts and finishes at Canton High School. This year’s race, which has a 7:30 a.m. registration time, will feature a 5K and 10K, a wheelchair […]
DID YOU KNOW… There is no question. It costs a lot of money to build or renovate a school building today, as evidenced by our recent Canton High School renovation, which cost Canton taxpayers over $40 million. In recent years, school construction costs have been getting out of hand. For instance, the most expensive public high […]
Former Canton High basketball standout Mike Byrnes has accepted an assistant coaching position with the men’s basketball team at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. He has 20 years of coaching experience. Many of you will recall that Byrnes is a 1984 Canton High graduate and played two years at forward for Coach John Calipari at […]
DID YOU KNOW … Despite all the big headlines and negative publicity directed at the Judge Rotenberg Center on Turnpike Street, Senator Brian A. Joyce’s annual bill to handcuff the school appears to be going nowhere — again; and it appears there isn’t enough support in the House of Representatives to adopt the measure and send […]
DID YOU KNOW… MAC hates to say it, but it appears a mistake was made again in placing the flags and “Welcome to Canton” banners on the new light poles in the Downtown Business District. The banners and flags extend out over Washington Street into parking spaces. They have only been up a short time […]
DID YOU KNOW … It appears we are in danger of losing the Stoughton District Court. The Court Relocation Committee, formed to evaluate Massachusetts courts and to recommend changes to save the commonwealth money and help close the $21 million shortfall in the 2011 state budget, recently issued its report to the chief justice of the […]
DID YOU KNOW … In an effort to improve the appearance of the Canton downtown business area, the Board of Selectmen have implemented a maintenance program called “Adopt A Downtown.” The purpose is to allow civic-minded individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations to participate in the maintenance and ongoing care of newly planted flowers, trees and other […]
DID YOU KNOW … For the second year in a row, the Blue Hills Trailside Museum will have no money in the state budget; however, officials say they will be able to keep the state-owned and privately managed museum going with the help of volunteers, private money, program fees, and by an anticipated capital grant […]
DID YOU KNOW … A new four-story hotel with 98 planned units recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at 50 Royall Street in Canton. Ron Kendall, president of Buffalo Lodging, along with Canton attorney Dick Staiti and dignitaries from the Canton Board of Selectmen and Canton Planning Board, were present to put the first shovel into […]
