When I got to Orange Blossom Community Garden for my interview with coordinator Barbara Powell-Harris, a boy named Cameron ran up to the gate with the key to let me in. Cameron lives in the neighborhood and comes to the garden all the time, he…
I was in the garden when Lou called me. When I answered he said “We got ‘em, Kat. We got the big dogs.” I knew better than to ask who or what the big dogs were right away. Lou Murray – the Vice President of…
When a Winn Dixie off Tamiami Trail and Myrtle closed in 2010, residents of Newtown had to walk two or three extra miles south to get to Publix until the Neighborhood Walmart opened in the same spot a few years later. The Historic African…
It is nearly impossible to travel east down Dr. Martin Luther King Way without noticing three construction sites on the south side. These sites are manifestations of Ringling College of Art and Design’s expansion plan. As development presses forward, local residents have been left with…
This past Friday, a farmer’s market set up for the second time at the Redevelopment Office right off MLK way, in the heart of the Newtown neighborhood. From the street, the market looks like a makeshift stand with heaps of produce laid out on tables…
