He said an announcement will be made on the Glasgow Parks and Recreation Facebook page as well as the city’s. The new playground equipment at Beaver Creek Park is being installed, and he hoped to have it completed and ready to open by Wednesday. I feel like we’ve got the right people helping us make this everything we can make it.” Branstetter Carroll is the same company that performed the overall strategic plan for parks a few years ago. Branstetter Carroll, a consulting and design firm hired to work on a strategic plan for American Legion Park, is expected to have a preliminary design ready to show city officials in a week or so, and Royse said of the company, “They’re very knowledgeable. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1Īlso during his update, Furlong reported, sometimes in response to specific questions, the following: Mayor Henry Royse said Alexander and Tom Davis, the attorney for the school system have been communicating and working together through the process, “kind of making sure that all the bases are covered, so to speak.”Įddie Furlong, director of the Glasgow Parks and Recreation Department, pauses during an update on park projects he was providing Monday to the Glasgow Common Council. Later, Councilman Joe Trigg asked whether the lease would come before the council for consideration, and City Attorney Rich Alexander said approvals from the council, the GIS Board of Education and the Kentucky Department of Education would all be necessary to finalize it. He said a lease agreement contract has been prepared by the city attorney that is now under review by Glasgow Independent Schools leaders, and Superintendent Chad Muhlenkamp has requested a meeting with Furlong and Mayor Henry Royse to hash out the terms. He said he and school officials have worked out a plan for how people need to enter the park and where they’ll need to park their vehicles around the ballfield. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1Ī seating area and bathroom facilities will have to wait for the next phase of the project, so Furlong said portable toilets will be available for now. The city will start considering what to do for baseball season next spring after information is sent to the insurance company.Mayor Henry Royse, from left, looks toward City Attorney Rich Alexander as the latter explains to members of the Glasgow Common Council the process for getting a lease agreement between Glasgow Independent Schools and the City of Glasgow approved regarding the school system’s use of Richardson Stadium in city-owned Gorin Park. It was used for Glasgow schools baseball programs, including the Glasgow High School Scotties. The wooden Richardson Stadium was built in 1957 and was a unique part of the community. And that’s what caused the fire to start.” “It began in the concession stand area," Furlong said."The state fire marshal determined that one of the electrical panel boxes had sparked, shorted out, something like that in one of the breakers. ![]() No one was in the stadium at the time of the fire. "At this point it looks like the entire stadium is a total loss.” “And with the fire it has destroyed roughly two-thirds or more of the wood," said Furlong. ![]() ![]() Glasgow Parks and Recreation Director Eddie Furlong said by the time he got to the park at 2:15 a.m., the stadium was engulfed in flames. A 65-year-old wooden baseball stadium in Glasgow burned down early Thursday morning.
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