The seventh annual Freeman Gardens “Rake and Bake,” a collective effort by neighbors to prepare the bucolic site for another season, was held Saturday, April 27, and it was startling to behold. Approaching the site, with the garden gates along Hawthorne Avenue thrown open, everyone could see that the verdant rose plants, expectant of spring, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge had to eliminate the bake sale part of its annual “Rake and Bake” at Freeman Gardens this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but neighbors were still able to rake. The garden cleanup on Hawthorne Avenue drew residents out to weed, dig and plant in the first community cleanup […]