In a recent op-ed column, community activist Terrence Miller lamented the fact that the success of Downtown Easton and upscale food sources, such as the Easton Public Market, have done little to make affordable food accessible to the city's poorer neighborhoods, including the West Ward. That area of the city has been tagged as a "food desert" because it lacks an affordable food market. "The irony of folks who don't live in the city driving in to to buy local, organic foods — unaffordable to most city residents, while a mom with two kids in tow are...
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