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Alexandra Pecci

Delicate Desserts

  If you ask Rabih Bou Chaaya of Methuen to describe his family’s small business, Maya Gourmet, his answer is a simple one. “I wo...

Sweet Confections

  As the proprietress of Gloucester-based Mayflour Confections, Jocelyn Pierce has made a name for herself in the North Shore wedding and par...

Cool Beans

  Ninety-year-old Steve Kaloyanides, Sr., has already had a couple of cups of coffee by the time he arrives at work each day around 10:30 a.m...

Protecting Pollinators

  When Phyllis LeBlanc, CEO and owner of Harbor Sweets in Salem, read about the deaths of honeybees and the incidence of colony collapse that...

Town Focus: Woburn

  The phrase “melting pot” is used frequently to describe the United States, and it’s a phrase that fits many of our cities...

Seasonal Sweets

  It doesn’t matter that Michelle Boland, pastry chef at Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Lynnfield, spends her entire...

Growing Family

  Amy and Barry Finegold’s Andover home felt huge when they first moved into it from their respective apartments in 2001. “Wit...

Mentoring Friendship

  Two beautiful women, one very young and one older, stand together onstage and sing to one another. “All I needed to know was right...

Andover Innovates

  Stephen Chinosi’s supervisor at one of his early teaching jobs didn’t seem to think very much of him. “I think I was give...