For years, community giving in Maplewood has followed a simple, comfortable routine: if you had extra cans sitting in your pantry, you drove down to the outdoor Community Fridge on Springfield Avenue and dropped them on a shelf. It was an act of goodwill, but for the neighbors who had relied on the Fridge, it created a persistent unpredictability—a constant gamble between overflowing shelves and empty ones. “We started the program in 2021,” said…
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