By Paul W. Zuber | Empire Report | January 21, 2021 When most of us think about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, we tend to think of places like Selma and Montgomery in Alabama, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of us do not realize that the State of New York had its own long-standing struggles with […]

by Michael Woyton, Patch Staff There is a little bit of farm in Lincoln Park in New Rochelle. The grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden is coming along nicely, thanks to a surfeit of rain. Linda Tarrant-Reid, one of the garden’s original organizers, said people usually water every other day. “You don’t need to water today,” […]

A group of dedicated community members have finally seen the fruits of their year long labor.  grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden (grow!LPCG) committee members Linda Tarrant-Reid, Camille Edwards-Thomas, Wendy Henry-Dodds, and Karen Hessel spearheaded the construction of a sustainable, organic legacy garden that is now a reality on the site of the former Lincoln Elementary […]