Weaving a web for Foxboro
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter May 1999
Standing room only in church
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter April 1999 Palm Sunday mass, and Saint Mary’s is filled beyond capacity this afternoon. There is literally a standing room only crowd.…
Foxboro First Night says farewell
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 11/1998 It began in the summer of 1993. Oh, others had talked about it and kicked around the idea for a while,…
Eat And Support Scouting At the ‘Other’ Pancake Breakfast
by Robert GillisPublished in the Foxboro Reporter11/1998
Celebrating Boyden Library Foxboro
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 8/1998 So, read any good books lately? Have you been to the library lately? I read a lot these days, but it…
Trash Program Survives
by Robert GillisPublished In The Foxboro Reporter5/28/1998 Man, I must have had *nothing* else to say. One of the “why did I write this one” columns.
Support the new Foxboro Senior Center
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 8/1997 Pay attention, folks; this one’s important. You might see the “Seniors” page in this paper each week and think, “I’m not…
My first Foxboro town meeting – and the senior center vote
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 5/1997 In the six years I’ve lived in Foxboro, last week was the first time I’ve attended a town meeting. My main…
Seniors benefit rolling in dough after weekend pizza fundraiser
by Robert GillisPublished In the Foxboro Reporter5/1/1997
Reflections on the April Fool’s Blizzard of 1997
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 4/97 Some random thoughts and observations on the Great Blizzard of 1997: Any snowstorm with even mild accumulation brings the inevitable comparison…
Celebrating vocations
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 3/1997 and the Boston City Paper, 2006 We are now nearly through the Catholic season of Lent, a time of fasting, prayer…
We’ll all be a senior someday – support the new Foxboro senior center
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 3/1997 “Dismiss that notion of the ancient senior in a wheelchair with nothing to offer the world anymore. Foxboro’s seniors are a…
1997 – Keep the Patriots in Foxboro — the open letter I wrote to Mr. Kraft
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/1997 Note: I’d been writing for the Reporter for only a year or so when I wrote this one — keeping the…