Sentences with phrase «of ballfields»

The senator had attempted to pin the blame for the closing of the ballfields on Avella, who was president of the association at the time the dumping occurred in 1997.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

You said, referring to the earlier votes, that, «The Cary district put two referendum questions to the voters in November — an $ 8.1 million bond issue to buy 80 acres of land and build a swim center and ballfields, and a tax - rate increase to operate the facilities.»

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the ballfields have fallen into disrepair in recent years, leaving Little Leaguers and many other sports teams without a place to play on account of poor drainage.

But what about the ballfields bearing his name in his home village of Rockville Centre?

Padavan and Avella butted heads when the senator called on the Queens district attorney's office to file charges against the officers of the College Point Sports Association in 2001 after five contractors were indicted for illegally dumping debris on the group's ballfields.

He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives.

At first, «he» seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

This means a lot of time is spent at the ballfield.

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.