Canton is in the hunt for a new high school principal after current principal Dr. Douglas Dias informed his staff and the School Committee late last week that he will be taking a similar position in Medway. Dias, who is a resident of nearby Milford, has served as principal at CHS for the past five […]
The Board of Selectmen has appointed Canton resident Janet Maguire as the town’s new recreation director. Maguire, the lone local candidate, was chosen over three other applicants, although selectmen agreed that all four were strong and worthy candidates. The vote to appoint Maguire was unanimous at 4-0, with Selectman Victor Del Vecchio absent from the […]
The Canton Police Detective Bureau announced this week the arrest of three Brockton men who are believed to be responsible for a rash of home and car breaks in Canton in December of 2011 and January of this year. Detective Mike Lank, who led the investigation, said the probe covered five home break-ins and 10 […]
In a 4-1 vote taken Tuesday night, the Board of Selectmen, acting as individual members, said they would not support the Community Preservation Act (CPA) ballot question before Canton residents on Tuesday, April 3. The act would permit the town to levy a 1 percent tax on residential and commercial property that would be set […]
Editor’s note: Click the links below to read the letters referenced in the article. Competing legal interpretations and legitimate safety concerns — not “money and union jobs” as alleged by selectmen — are at the heart of a recent dispute involving construction of a large-scale solar farm on the town-owned Pine Street landfill, according to […]
Unlike last year, the Canton School Committee is in a mode of restoring rather than cutting programs and staff after receiving positive news from the town’s Revenue Committee, which came back with a bottom-line projection of $31.77 million for next year’s operating budget. School Committee members had prepared three versions of the budget in anticipation […]
Another Canton High School student has returned home from the hospital after sustaining serious injuries in a two-car accident on York Street on Friday, March 2. However, one student remains in serious condition at a Boston hospital. The accident injured seven people in all, including six CHS students, all of whom were traveling in one […]
The financial investigation into the Recreation Department that was alluded to in a recent announcement by the Board of Selectmen has its roots in the Canton Travel Basketball program, according to two town officials with direct knowledge of the situation. The prepared statement by selectmen, which first appeared on the town website on February 10, […]
As was the case all over Massachusetts on Tuesday, former Governor Mitt Romney sailed to an easy victory in Canton in the Republican primary election, garnering over 78 percent of the local vote to easily beat out Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Romney, who collected 72 percent of the vote statewide, carried each of Canton’s […]
On Saturday, March 24, at Lombardo’s in Randolph, Canton resident Courtland Priest will compete against 24 of the region’s top spellers in the Comcast South Shore Regional Spelling Bee for a chance to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the renowned Scripps National Spelling Bee. Priest, an eighth grader, won the qualifying bee at […]
