Current Events / News Commentary Dorchester Foxboro America 2020: Protests, Violence, Racism — Divided We Fall May 31, 2020 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter May 31, 2020 I grew up in a very poor section of…
Catholic / Church Dorchester UPDATED: An open letter to the Saint Kevin property managers — let us say a proper good-bye before the church is demolished Mar 7, 2014 Robert Gillis By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper, 3/2014 (Written at the request of a great group of people…
Current Events / News Commentary Dorchester Where can I pick up the Boston City paper? Sep 21, 2013 Robert Gillis The Boston City Paper is a terrific weekly newspaper and I am grateful to editor Paul Feeney for allowing me…
Catholic / Church Current Events / News Commentary Dorchester Grieving the Saint Kevin’s Property Aug 13, 2012 Robert Gillis By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 7/2012 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2012 ived my first 25 years…
Dorchester Celebrating Mom & Pop stores Jul 27, 2006 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper July 2006 As a child in Dorchester, my career goal for…
Catholic / Church Dorchester Memorials News image from Web In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce Feb 28, 2006 Robert Gillis In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce, pastor of Saint Kevin Church, Uphams Corner, Dorchester for 50 years by…
Catholic / Church Dorchester News image from Web You can go home again; my visit to Dorchester and Saint Kevin School and Church Jun 21, 2003 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 6/2003 and the Boston City paper in 2006 It’s Friday afternoon, the…
Boston Dorchester News image from Web The Great Blizzard of 1978, 25 years later Feb 6, 2003 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter 2/2003 and the Boston City Paper 2/2013. There are images that stay…
Dorchester The Old Dorchester Neighborhood Sep 1, 2000 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/2000 and the Boston City Paper 1/2007 Recently I was out driving…
Dorchester Memories of an Intensive Care Nursery at Saint Margarets Hospital in Dorchester Jul 4, 1997 Robert Gillis by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 7/1997 and in the Boston City Paper 6/2006 A story ran in…
Dorchester Foxboro Not The Best Despite problems, Foxboro’s got a lot to offer (my very first op/ed as a regular contributor to the Foxboro Reporter, 4/1996) Apr 25, 1996 Robert Gillis Historians note, 2015: after I wrote my first full-length piece about the Foxboro senior center in early 1996, this piece…
America 2020: Protests, Violence, Racism — Divided We Fall
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter May 31, 2020 I grew up in a very poor section of…
UPDATED: An open letter to the Saint Kevin property managers — let us say a proper good-bye before the church is demolished
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper, 3/2014 (Written at the request of a great group of people…
Where can I pick up the Boston City paper?
The Boston City Paper is a terrific weekly newspaper and I am grateful to editor Paul Feeney for allowing me…
Grieving the Saint Kevin’s Property
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 7/2012 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2012 ived my first 25 years…
Celebrating Mom & Pop stores
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper July 2006 As a child in Dorchester, my career goal for…
In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce
In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce, pastor of Saint Kevin Church, Uphams Corner, Dorchester for 50 years by…
You can go home again; my visit to Dorchester and Saint Kevin School and Church
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 6/2003 and the Boston City paper in 2006 It’s Friday afternoon, the…
The Great Blizzard of 1978, 25 years later
by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter 2/2003 and the Boston City Paper 2/2013. There are images that stay…
The Old Dorchester Neighborhood
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/2000 and the Boston City Paper 1/2007 Recently I was out driving…
Memories of an Intensive Care Nursery at Saint Margarets Hospital in Dorchester
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 7/1997 and in the Boston City Paper 6/2006 A story ran in…
Despite problems, Foxboro’s got a lot to offer (my very first op/ed as a regular contributor to the Foxboro Reporter, 4/1996)
Historians note, 2015: after I wrote my first full-length piece about the Foxboro senior center in early 1996, this piece…