The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday night voted to establish a Blue Ribbon Traffic Committee, which would serve as an advisory panel to the board and “proactively identify traffic issues in Canton and present novel solutions to the Traffic Study Committee for technical and feasibility review.” The committee will include one citizen from each of […]
The Canton High School Alumni Association has recently presented CHS with a gift of $8,000 to be used for a variety of items to benefit CHS students. This gift will be used to provided for upgraded technology in the form of additional Chromebook technology, which will benefit all students, an additional iPad for a particular […]
Last fall Canton friends Ellen Donovan and Annmarie Silvasy began to talk about the math and English Language curriculum changes they have seen in recent years. “Ellen and I and a couple of parents were concerned about the wacky math,” Silvasy said. “We made a couple of jokes about it. Then we just started to […]
Thursday, June 11, will be an important School Committee meeting as school officials will finalize a critical budget decision on whether to pursue later start times for Canton High School or keep the funds to hire more teachers and address class size concerns. Also on the agenda are plans to discuss the Common Core curriculum […]
Wanting a full vetting of an apparent speeding problem in the Wentworth Road neighborhood between Randolph and Washington streets, the Board of Selectmen decided Tuesday night to schedule a public hearing within the next month and notify all abutters before taking the steps of installing several new stop signs in the area. In the interim, […]
Canton detectives have asked for the public’s help in locating a gun that was thrown from a car involved in a shooting in the early morning hours on Sunday, May 17. Specifically, police believe the gun may have been thrown on Bay Road somewhere between Cobb’s Corner and Route 106 in Mansfield. Three men have […]
It’s back to the drawing board for the Canton School Committee tonight as members try to salvage their plan of extending the start times at the high school and middle school while also cutting class sizes at both schools. School officials had hoped to secure additional funding at annual town meeting, either through a $540,000 […]
Town meeting voted to spend $655,165 for seven proposals benefitting historical preservation and affordable housing as recommended by the Canton Community Preservation Committee (CCPC). The approved projects include $414,000 for improvements to the David Tilden House at Pequitside Farm
Three men remain in court custody and face a dangerousness hearing this week for charges of armed assault with the intent to murder and multiple firearms charges following a shooting of a vehicle early Sunday morning, May 17, on Route 138 and Washington Street near Adrienne Drive. No one was injured in the shooting, which […]
After a year on the U.S. film festival circuit, Raising Matty Christian, the multi-award-winning documentary directed by Christian de Rezendes of Breaking Branches Pictures, will be participating in the Doc Corner of the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival in France, one of the world’s most prestigious film events. As part of the Cannes Doc Corner, Raising Matty […]
