Interior designer Michelle Cortizo, founder and owner of Cortizo Interiors, LLC, is one of five Boston-area designers featured in the May 2019 issue of House Beautiful, a popular national magazine focused on interior decorating and the domestic arts. The article profiles the discussion the designers had with HB Editorial Director Joanna Saltz about what inspires […]
Erin Connor and her older daughters, Addison, Brynn and Brooke, were walking down Washington Street in January on their way to pick up the youngest Connor daughter, Charleigh, at Canton Community Kindergarten (CCK) when the garbage they saw on the sidewalk and in the street led to a conversation about who was doing the littering […]
Regen Milani and her sons were taking a walk through the grounds of Pequitside Farm when an unleashed dog jumped on Milani. Having owned dogs and used to being around them, Milani remained calm, but the situation would have been different had the dog jumped on one of her sons. “My son gets very scared […]
Sister Catherine Marie Gilmore, CSJ, (Sister Margaret Edward), who served as the principal of Saint John the Evangelist School in Canton from 1985 to 2001, passed away Sunday, December 9, at the Bethany Health Care Center in Framingham. Sister Catherine was in her 68th year as a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of […]
For Maudy Dooher, an American Thanksgiving with people gathering together to celebrate a meal with family and friends reminds her of the Christmas celebrations she grew up with in County Mayo, Ireland. “A gathering of people,” she said, “a big family meal on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. People putting on their best clothes and […]
Jason Daniels believes that it doesn’t take a lot of time for someone to tell a story or to recount a life experience, but the story’s impact can have a lasting effect. The executive director of Easton Community Access Television (ECAT), Daniels is also the founder and coordinator of the 100-Second Film Festival, which feature […]
Nearly 150 Canton residents will lace up their sneakers and walk up to 26.2 miles along the Boston Marathon course this coming Sunday, September 23, as they raise money in the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk, presented by Hyundai. The walkers are part of a group of 9,500 people expected to take part in the event, […]
Thomas Cahill, 18, visited Cuba for the first time last month as part of a St. Gerard Majella outreach group. Micaela Duffy, 19, was also with the group, going on the service trip for the second time; she was a member of the group that traveled to the island last year. Both Cahill and Duffy […]
At the age of 28, Audrey Murray boarded a one-way flight to Kazakhstan to begin the first leg of a solo tour through the former USSR. Through the course of 12 months, the Canton native visited 11 former republics as part of a fascinating and surprising journey that would involve “kidnappers, garbage bags of money, […]
Brian V. Devin, chief executive officer of the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children, was in his office when school nurses Dawn Beaulieu and Regina Kennedy walked in and said, “Hey, we need a playground.” Devin’s response was, “Hey, I need a lot of money.” But thanks to the hard work and generosity of many people, […]
