The public is invited to share their thoughts on the future of the Route 138 corridor at an open forum on Wednesday, July 10, from 7-9 p.m. at Bank of Canton headquarters, located at 490 Turnpike Street. The town has begun the process of developing a strategic plan and vision for the Route 138 corridor, […]
Young readers who visit the Canton library this summer will find aliens in the Junior Room, friendly creatures whose pictures are somewhere in the lower level space. Children who take part in A Universe of Stories, the summer reading program at the library, need to find at least six of the 10 aliens to complete […]
Recycling services in Canton will not stop in the immediate future, but Republic Services, the town operator of trash and recycling collection, informed selectmen earlier this week that the company is operating Canton’s recycling services at a substantial loss. The operating loss, estimated at $179,000 annually, is due to new requirements and restrictions put in […]
Julie Ghostlaw, English teacher at the Galvin Middle School, is very proud of this year’s seventh graders. The entire seventh grade has been working hard on a lengthy and ambitious undertaking to beautify the Galvin grounds. Known as the Galvin Pride Project, it followed an approach to instruction called project-based learning which, in this case, […]
Members and supporters of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509 gathered in front of the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children in Canton last week to protest the elimination of three special education teaching positions at the school. Formerly the Mass. Hospital School, Pappas is owned and operated by the commonwealth and serves children and […]
Canton Police Officer Michael Chin is drawing praise from his superiors for his efforts in stopping a suspected thief who fled from police and crashed a stolen car into a truck on Route 138 on Saturday morning, June 15, around 10:15 a.m. The suspect, Bernaddy Mondesir, 20, of Brockton, was taken to the hospital for […]
Julianne (Julie) Shore, CHS assistant principal and former dean of students, will assume the role of director of technology for the entire Canton school district beginning July 1. In making the selection after nomination from an in-house search committee made up of school administrators, Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Fischer-Mueller praised Shore as a veteran educator with […]
Project SMILE, a Community Problem Solving team consisting of students from Canton High School, took home first place in the CmPS Senior Division at the Future Problem Solvers International Competition held earlier this month at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Canton teens competed with students from all over the world who worked on a […]
Armed with a convincing mandate from annual town meeting and the recent special town election, the Canton Playground and Recreation Commission is working with the Building Renovations Committee, a project manager, and a design firm to ready final design plans for the Bolivar Street Aquatic Center renovations. The goal is to submit the plans to […]
See this week’s Citizen for complete CHS graduation coverage, including then and now photos, scholarship winners, future plans and much more. The weather was picture-perfect and the speeches hit all the right notes as the 229-member CHS Class of 2019 — a group that achieved greatness by working hard and “honoring the process” — marked […]
