The close-knit feeling among neighbors and the safety of the community motivates generation after generation of families to remain in Spring Lake. Everybody knows everybody. Last month, Gammond moved back to her hometown. Married, with two young children, she and her husband, George, saved until they could afford the two-story Victorian home they built on a vacant Pitney Avenue lot. We don't have truck loads of money.
Some residents live in homes that are passed down from generation to generation.