The Canton Garden Club continued its tradition of house tours with “Joys of Christmas” last weekend. The five houses drew visitors into two homes from the 19th century and three others that are modern residences. The tour ended at the Canton Public Library with the Garden Club Holiday Marketplace. The first stop was the home […]
Dec 9 2010 | Posted in
News | By
Mary Ann Price
Selectmen received some better financial news this week after the town’s finance director and the fire chief pared down the Fire Department’s capital requests, lessening the amount selectmen must cut from the overall capital plan for next year. A week ago, selectmen were looking at cutting $219,000 of $651,000 in capital requests submitted by all […]
Dec 9 2010 | Posted in
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Town Government | By
Mike Berger
The winless Canton Bulldogs made it interesting on a blustery, cold Thanksgiving Day at Stoughton High, trailing only 7-0 at halftime and surprising everyone on the first play from scrimmage with a 35-yard halfback pass from Dexter Green to Elias Camacho. But Canton coughed the ball up on the very next play — the first […]

For the past 45 years, anyone attending the American Legion Post #24 summer evening baseball games at Canton High would have seen Bob Brown — “Brownie” to all who know him — passing out programs and schedules to the fans in the stands as well as any spectators sitting in their chairs near right field. […]
Dec 2 2010 | Posted in
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Sports | By
Mike Berger
With the recent addition of three new members and its first-ever “youth speak out” scheduled for Friday afternoon at the library, the Canton Youth Commission is now officially back in business following years of inactivity. The mere fact that they are able to host this “speak out” – which is open to all Canton middle […]
Dec 2 2010 | Posted in
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Town Government | By
Jay Turner
The Galvin Middle School, still riding high off the smashing success of its new football program, will now have a couple of hoops teams to root for this winter after School Committee members, following a lengthy deliberation Thursday night, talked themselves into funding both a girls’ and boys’ basketball team on a one-year trial basis. […]
Nov 25 2010 | Posted in
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Schools | By
Jay Turner
Mike Sundin walked into a recent meeting of the Friends of the Canton Public Library as an interested volunteer and walked out as the new president of the group. “It was suggested to me that I might want to attend the meeting,” he said with a laugh. “I was not sure that I was going […]
Nov 25 2010 | Posted in
News | By
Mary Ann Price
There is no doubt that Canton is going to have to play its best game of the season in order to beat 3-7 Stoughton Thursday morning (Thanksgiving) at 10 a.m. at Stoughton High School. Canton, which stands at 0-9-1, is looking to end its season on a high note after struggling all year with injuries […]
Nov 25 2010 | Posted in
High School,
News,
Sports | By
Mike Berger

The Canton High School boys’ soccer team captured the Division 2 south sectional championship for the very first time in program history after edging top-ranked Sandwich 2-1 in penalty kicks Sunday afternoon at Weymouth High School. The victory earned the undefeated Bulldogs (17-0-4) a chance to play Concord-Carlisle — the Division 2 defending state champions […]

Canton High School’s field hockey team shut out ninth-seeded Medway 2-0 on Saturday at Taunton High School to become the south sectional champion for the second consecutive year. The unbeaten Bulldogs (20-0-1) are seeded second and have yet to be scored upon in the state tournament. Coach Fior Griffin said her team knew the championship […]