Canton residents Pat and Steve Cohen spent the evening of April 27 with two of their grandchildren at a New England Revolution game against the team from Pat’s hometown, the Philadelphia Union. The Cohens had attended the game as the guests of Revolution owner Robert Kraft, who wanted to thank them and other Boston Athletic Association [...]
Pat Rooney Gallahue became a business owner in the classic fashion: She liked the product so much that she bought the company. Last July, the Canton native took over The Write Way, a business that specializes in wedding and party invitations, note cards, and other paper products. Margaret Davidi of Sharon was the original owner [...]
Foley’s Backstreet Grille in Stoughton is adding a new fundraiser to its list of good causes. The inaugural Foley’s Backstreet Grille 5K Road Race will be held Sunday, April 21, to benefit the Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton. Giving back to the community is something that restaurant owner Dave Foley, a Canton native, has done [...]
Sharon resident Kathleen Banfield has many years of experience as both an educator and a gardener. And beginning this spring, thanks to the generous support of the Paul R. Matthews Foundation, Banfield will combine these two aspects of her background to create the Canton Family Garden at Pequitside Farm — a place where local children [...]
Dr. Renée Wilson, MD, likes to do her grocery shopping at the Stop and Shop on Route 138 in Stoughton. Over time, she noticed an empty store front a few doors down and thought it would be a great location for a walk-in urgent medical care clinic. Last November, she and her husband, Everton Weeks, [...]
Dan Cummings enjoyed playing sports as he grew up in Hyde Park, especially football and baseball. He played defensive tackle and was on the kick return team at Xaverian Brothers High School, which won the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl in 1998. On June 24, 2000, Cummings went to a lake with some friends. “It [...]
Lauren Cortizo, a 2009 graduate of Canton High School, was busy during her four years in high school. She was senior class president, a member of the cross country team, and an All-American wrestler. Four years later, Cortizo, 21, is just as busy. Now in her last semester as a marketing communications major at Emerson [...]
When former Canton resident PJ Driscoll began to train for the New York City Marathon last spring, his goal was to run in the race in order to raise funds for the Pat Tillman Foundation. His plans changed when the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy led to the cancellation of the November 4 race, but it [...]
It started with a conversation between strangers, family members of opposing hockey team members who were watching their kids face off on an ice rink in Rhode Island in November. Canton Youth Hockey’s Squirt A team was playing the Freeport, New York, Arrows in the Warwick Junior Hockey Thanksgiving Tournament. In the stands, Judy Mahan, [...]
Canton resident Jamie Kotkowski Pratt was overweight growing up. She describes herself as someone who was always the heaviest student in her classes at school and recalls avoiding the seesaw at playgrounds because she was afraid of being told that she was too heavy to be another child’s partner. Her motivation to lose weight and [...]
