Hodgkins Park playground ribbon cutting this Saturday, 9:30 am

[ron_newman]

(from a ResiStat e-mail)

Hodgkins-Curtin Park ribbon-cutting ceremony, Saturday 6/26, 9:30AM-10:30AM. Please save the date, and bring your family and friends to celebrate the occasion with Mayor Curtatone, Alderman Robert Trane, and the rest of the Hodgkins-Curtin ("Yellow Park") Community. For more information, please contact Landscape Project Manager Arn Franzen at 617-625-6600, x2529, or visit the City website at www.somervillema.gov.

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[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I love that when I walked by this AM the field had a cute little foul pole for the baseball field! Awesome!

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

While the playground is opening this Saturday, the field is closed for another year - to allow the sod to settle.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that. Still doesn't change the fact that there's a pesky-esque pole :)

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

:)

[gruene.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure why they rebuilt the playground part of the park. The field needed reconstruction, but there was nothing wrong with the play structures, as far as I know.

[trtls.livejournal.com]

Package deal, I guess. As a former and future playgrounder, the new one is MUCH prettier! We are looking forward to playing in our new playground amid all the greenery. Also, picnic tables!

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Well, the slide was broken, and according to the city people I talked to, the original company is out of business and no other company will touch other people's old structures. Other parts of it were definitely starting to show wear. The small structure was preserved in its entirety, by the way, and can now be found down Highland near city hall.

An early pitch point was that the older-kids structure was going to be made more for older kids -- ages 5-12, rather than topping out at about 6-year-olds -- but that doesn't actually seem to have happened.




Plus, the mayor seems to have been on a crusade to get rid of the sand, partly because it's an ongoing maintenance cost, but (based on my in-person impression) I think mostly because he thinks it's really icky (and maybe not classy enough for a modern high-tech city). We're lucky we were able to retain what we did. (And the new water feature will be well-used.)


I'm pretty happy with the plants all around, and the picnic tables.

[trtls.livejournal.com]

Can't wait! Our kids (and us) have been waiting for this day since the ground thawed!