Sentences with word «ballfield»

The town of Oyster Bay plans to begin construction of ballfields at the former Liberty Industrial Finishing Superfund site in Farmingdale next month, town officials announced.

HOFFMAN ESTATES — A Park District committee and local residents bumped heads this week over ballfield lighting and alleged favoritism toward baseball over soccer.

The city is also hiking a variety of fees, including ones for parking, taxicab licenses and permits for using ballfields in city parks.

NAPERVILLE — For the second year in a row, the Naperville Park District has been awarded a state grant to help pay for developing new ballfields, paths and a parking lot at a new community park.

And summer means ballfields everywhere get active!

And summer means ballfields everywhere...

However, I feel drawn to the local ballfields even when it is not our son's team playing.

The board this week awarded Blue Island - based Sportfields a $ 25,615 contract for ballfield construction work, and Sycamore - based Northern Contracting Inc. was given a similar deal for fencing, backstop and dugout amenities.

Krieb has indicated the county waived $ 596,799 in ballfield fees last year.

While they blocked Curran's proposal to raise additional revenue by charging Little Leagues and other athletic teams for using county ballfields, Republicans have voted to confirm nearly all of her 12 appointees and to approve her request to borrow $ 2.2 million to hire two firms that will finish a reassessment of every property in the county.

«The park board was impressed by the extensive ballfield facility construction experience of JJR,» said Lydia Scott, assistant to the director of public works, in a memo to the Village Board presented at Monday night's meeting.

WHEATON — The City Council has given the go - ahead for plans by the Wheaton Park District to add nine new light poles to illuminate two Little League ballfields and a football - practice area between those two fields, all on the west side of Atten Park, just north of the end of Shaffner Road.

They also waived a $ 35 permit fee for a scoreboard at Community Park ballfield No. 1.

The trio poured more than $ 1 million in startup costs into the 10 1/2 - acre complex that boasts a dormitory, cafeteria (with a nutritionist), classroom (with a computer lab on the way), MLB - sized ballfield, pitching mounds, batting cages and flowers.

After reading some 900 survey responses and taking into account the Park District's desire for more ballfields, the committee came up with a list of amenities that also includes a miniature golf course, playgrounds, a splash park, trails, a fishing pond, a sledding hill and a concert area.

A new playground, ballfield upgrades, climbing boulders and other improvements are slated for Maple Park as part of a $ 1.1 million renovation project in 2016, the Park District of Oak Park announced.

Baseball and softball players will not miss the extra diamond, Buczowski said, because the village has 27 additional ballfields, some at times unused.

- Big Rock Park District, $ 249,600 to develop the district's first community park site, including ballfields and soccer fields, an ice skating area, playground and shelter with restrooms.

Some homeowners in Sherwood Forest, east of the proposed park, had objected to proposed ballfield lights shining into their homes late at night, noise, parking on nearby streets and possible harm to wildlife in the wetland.

Abrahams predicted the county will not raise $ 1 million because the groups will look to use school districts, towns and village ballfields instead of county parks.

Third, some lawyers (and non-lawyers) will labor over everything in a futile attempt at perfection, at ensuring every base is covered — even including some bases on the adjoining ballfield.

The district already is short of ballfields, according to Park District Executive Director Ken Brissa.

For the second year in a row, the Naperville Park District has been awarded a state grant to help pay for developing new ballfields, paths and a parking lot at a new community park.

Republicans on the Nassau Legislature on Thursday introduced a bill to block County Executive Laura Curran from charging thousands of dollars in fees to Little Leagues, nonprofits and seniors to use county ballfields that for years have been available to them for free.

He was actually a gentle, shy boy who loathed attention and conflict; he'd fall silent or walk away when either one reared its head in a classroom or on the ballfields where he spent his free time.

«Because God delays doesn't mean he denies,» said manager Tommy Lasorda, just a few hours after Guerrero had curled up, screaming in pain, on the ballfield.

Some examples would include trails, ballfields, mowing, snow removal and facility repairs, just for starters.

The land in that corner fills the Park District's need for more playgrounds and ballfields, said Rick Suttle, a member of the Plan Commission.

Netting will be installed to catch foul balls, and a 12 - foot fence will separate the facility from the ballfield, said Mary Lou O'Halleran, a member of the Strategic Plan Advisory Committee.

The commissioners postponed a vote on whether to install a concrete barrier, including an 8 - inch step, between the four ballfields being constructed at the site.

The agreement would allow the park district to use the site for such facilities as a driving range or ballfields, while ownership would remain with the village.

Prior to the November election, Cary Park District officials promised residents that if they voted down referendum measures seeking to fund a proposed swim center and ballfields on 80 acres near Cary - Grove High School, they'd drop a condemnation suit for the land.

Completing construction on a new nature center, renovating playgrounds and ballfields, and developing several basketball courts are all part of the Naperville Park District's plans for 2014, officials say.

Either two or three individuals will make up the force, which would patrol the district «s 27 parks, 33 ballfields, 4 sports facilities and golf course in parts of Mt. Prospect, Des Plaines, Arlington Heights and Elk Grove.

According to Walter Cook, superintendent of buildings and grounds, the extra protection is necessary due to a rash of rather costly incidents in the last two years at parks that include the explosion of pipe bombs, the destruction of lights at a ballfield and the burning of carts at a golf course.

The ballfield is part of an agreement between the Roslle Park District and the village and will offset the loss of a Park District facility that is being used for water retention for the new Town Center.

The ballfield is part of an agreement between the Roselle Park District and the village and will offset the loss of a Park District facility that is being used for water retention for the new Town Center.

A ballfield north of the site of the new basketball court will be shifted 40 feet west.

The second option would put the skate park by the ballfields and affect Little League play.

«You can't lose one ballfield at Knoch Park?»

Naperville Park District will receive $ 400,000 to be used to develop four ballfields and recreational paths in 131 - acre Frontier Park beginning in spring.

Eveyln Walano, a member of the Homer Glen Trails Task Force, said trails are needed «because kids need to be able to get to the playground, library and ballfields.»

We've witnessed Daniel Murphy, Mets playoff superstar, demonstrate that taking a few days of paternity leave had no negative impact on his ability to perform on the ballfield.

The parade will start at Arlington Heights Village Hall, wind through downtown Arlington Heights and end at Recreation Park with a ceremony on the ballfields.

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