Be part of the LIGHT this holiday season in Foxboro
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 11/2015 Recently, we had a special Diwali celebration at lunch time at work. Diwali, also known as the “festival of lights,” is…
Foxboro Jaycees Easter Egg Hunt 2014
by Robert Gillis (News Story) Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2014 Despite a very busy schedule of coloring eggs and making Easter baskets, the Easter Bunny made time to visit…
“Open on Thanksgiving!”
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 11/2013 T’was a few days before Christmas, some years back, when a company called Blockbuster still rented what…
Foxboro Thanksgiving 1997, 15 years later…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 11/2012 Happy Thanksgiving! Back in 1997, one year into writing in this paper, I wrote a Thanksgiving piece. I came across it…
Foxboro Jaycees Easter Egg Hunt
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2006 Despite a very busy schedule of coloring eggs and making Easter baskets, the Easter Bunny made time to visit the children…
Easter 2001 and Remembering Stan and Lorraine
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2001 Easter is here again. Christians throughout the world celebrate the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the promise of…
Memorial Day 2000
By Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter May 2000 and edited for the Boston City Paper May 2007 Memorial Day 2000 is here. People will visit cemeteries and place…