THE CARDBOARD BARREL HAS BEEN sitting empty in Marsha Flowers's backyard for more than a month now, but the Jamaican teenager hangs onto it as though it were a sacred totem. And in a way, it is. Five ...

SPRING VALLEY - On North Main Street, Dave King hauls a 55-gallon blue plastic barrel out of Caribreeze, the vegan Jamaican restaurant and shipping business his family runs, and onto the street. The ...