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FEATURE STORY<br />
By Bruce Deckert<br />
Photos by Amy Geigner<br />
THE PUGLISE FAMILY<br />
They were high school sweethearts whose paths first crossed in 1990 as teenage co-workers<br />
in Southwick, Massachusetts. He lived in <strong>Granby</strong>, while she resided in West Suffield.<br />
They both went to Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, which helped the high<br />
school romance flourish, and they were married in 1997.<br />
When Jeff and Joy Puglise chose a place to live as a married couple, they picked a town they were<br />
quite familiar with: <strong>Granby</strong>. They moved to town in 1998.<br />
“We knew we loved the area after growing up in it,” says Joy. “We wanted to live near family in a<br />
small town with good schools and open spaces.”<br />
Jeff and Joy met when they had part-time jobs at Ames Department Store in Southwick, at a site<br />
that is now the home of an Ocean State Job Lot store.<br />
Joy was born in Springfield. She was raised near Congamond Lake in West Suffield, graduating<br />
from Suffield High School in 1992 and from Bentley in 1996 with a degree in accounting.<br />
4 | OCTOBER 2018
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