By
Steve Hartman
Correspondent
Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment "On the Road."
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Roman Butzlaff brought together a group of neighbors who say they would have barely known each other if not for a little boy, who lived in a neighborhood but needed a village.
By
Steve Hartman
Correspondent
Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment "On the Road."
Read Full Bio

My family moved around in Florida, and I struggled to make friends. I eventually built a community around cooking paella.

The people next door

My family moved from New York to Tennessee. We struggled to make friends until I joined a small playgroup.

Heroic Ballito dad saves drowning three-year-old neighbour with CPR and prayer

How to actually get to know your neighbors

Watching the Grass Grow: Passing My Millennial Childhood on to Gen Alpha

Justin and Tori Cannarelli of New York almost have a typical American family with their two children and a dog. But they also…

When Leah Farrow asked her local Facebook group if anyone would let her autistic son knock on their door for his birthday, she…

I was isolated and nervous when I decided to roll up my sleeves and start volunteering. But I shouldn’t have been intimidated.…

An Alabama community rallied together to give an 11-year-old an early Halloween for his birthday this past July.

A close friend told me a story last week that was very touching. It was about someone he had helped decades ago but who never…

After decades of social isolation, people are realizing proximity is a resource.