From dirt patch to a gateway garden, a Randolph volunteer cultivates community 

For 13 years, resident Rosalind Burgess has been volunteering her time  to beautify a once vacant, neglected lot in Randolph. On April 23, 2024 she pointed out some of the features and spring buds at the two-acre plot that the town has renamed Rosalind Park in her honor. Photo by Auditi Guha/VTDigger
RANDOLPH — On a sunny afternoon in late April, a woman with a shock of white curls was hunched over a corner of a park, digging intently in the dirt.Local resident Rosalind Burgess, 75,